Just in time for the release of the third much-anticipated installment in the pedestrian Twilight series, a producer has confirmed that stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are a couple. Feigning disbelief that people were even still interested in Pattinson and Stewart’s relationship, producer Wyck Godfrey told Time Magazine that the two were in a stable relationship that could be considered boring. Tell that to all the sobbing, shaking Twimoms and their Twitweens.

Everyone is talking about whatever is going on between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Is that good for business?
Do you want the honest answer? I haven’t even thought of it that way.

That’s not the honest answer.
It really is. I honestly don’t think of it in terms of business. It doesn’t affect our core business at all. The thing I do think about is, Oh my God, I hope they stay together. Because it could be awkward on set in the next movie if they have a huge falling out. It’s like, Wow, they have to portray this love story through two more movies. God, I hope they stay together; please stay together. That’s what affects my day-to-day.

But you walk by newsstands and it’s a publicist’s dream: they are on every cover.
I don’t feel it’s out there anymore. Do people still report on it? If you look at people who have a stable personal life, the rags get tired of them. I think we’re heading to that place where they are together and that’s their life and we better find someone new to create drama out of.

[From Time via Huffington Post]

So this guy doesn’t think that people are still reporting on Pattinson and Stewart’s relationship. The young stars are on plenty of recent magazine covers just promoting the film, but they’ve also earned countless gossip rags. Just two weeks ago US and Life & Style ran competing covers giving different versions of their relationship. US had Kristen potentially breaking Rob’s heart and Life & Style had Kristen’s heart already broken by Rob with the title “Dumped!”

The stars themselves aren’t saying much and have only given a kind of joking non-admission to Oprah. Is Godfrey as clueless as he sounds or is he genuinely surprised that people still care? I find it hard to believe that he hasn’t been exposed to the “are they or aren’t they?” hype, but maybe he lives overseas or just doesn’t do his own shopping at all.

Meanwhile there are some new quotes from Pattinson that may come closer to admitting a relationship with Stewart. He allegedly said:

“Kristen and I have lived a great adventure together with the ‘Twilight’ films. We are very close and no one can understand what we’ve gone through together the last few years.

“When we’re together, we understand each other so well that we don’t have to say a lot to explain what we’re thinking. Kristen is a wonderful girl.”

Those quotes are from Contact Music and sourced to new! Magazine, so it’s hard to tell if they’re legitimate. Whatever is going on with those two, the status of their relationship definitely affects the billion dollar Twilight franchise. It doesn’t need the publicity though, that’s for sure.