Melissa Rosenberg Talks Eclipse

Reelz Channel was lucky enough to talk to Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg about a few Eclipse details.

Melissa Rosenberg on Eclipse

TV’s Hollywood Crush has details from Melissa Rosenberg on a a special cameo by new wave rocker Peter Murphy. Check it out:

“That’s cool, I didn’t know he was playing it,” she said of the scene, remembering it in the script but unaware that Peter had been cast in the role. “That’s one of the great things about ‘Eclipse,’ is that Stephenie [Meyer] goes into some of the backstories of ‘How did the wolves come to be?’ and ‘How did Rosalie come to be?’ and ‘How did Jasper come to be?’”

“I got to actually write those scenes, and have them come alive and explore some backstories,” she explained of her script for the third “Twilight” movie, due in theaters next summer. “[Those flashback scenes] are always, for me, very compelling.”

As Billy explained, Peter was cast as “an old Spanish, sort of unrelated vampire, in a flashback sequence” involving Billy Black (Gil Birmingham) telling the origins of the Quileuete wolves.

“[Peter] is involved in telling the story of how the wolves came to be,” Melissa revealed. “He is one of the provocateurs of the wolves way back when — he sort of starts the whole thing rolling.”

As fans know, much of the tension in the “Twilight Saga” revolves around a careful balance that has kept the vampires and werewolves of Forks living in relative peace for decades — until Bella Swan comes along, that is. Peter’s flashback will detail the evolution of the wolves, and shed further details on how the Quileute and Cullens forged their pact.

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FearNet Interview With Melissa Rosenberg

Jen Yamato has this week’s Twilight special up on FearNet and this time it features Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. Check it out!

There is a common link between the sparkly universe of Twilight and the sociopath exploits of Showtime’s Dexter, and her name is Melissa Rosenberg. The screenwriter and Emmy-nominated television producer has been juggling the two franchises since 2007, which is when she scripted the first Twilight film from Stephenie Meyer’s novel. Following the film’s enormous success, Rosenberg became Summit’s go-to writer for the series, and she’s since written two sequels including this month’s New Moon and next summer’s Eclipse.

FEARnet spoke exclusively with Rosenberg from her home in Los Angeles, where she had recently returned from a whirlwind trip to Rome to unveil new footage for Italian Twilighters. Among other topics, Rosenberg discussed her favorite new scenes and explained how that proposal scene will be split between New Moon and Eclipse — and that, if she were to write Breaking Dawn, the subject matter wouldn’t be a problem.

FEARnet: Summit seems to reward the Italian fans with juicy world-exclusive clips that the rest of us salivate over!

Melissa Rosenberg: They get a lot of clips – they saw a lot of the show! It was good; they were so receptive and wonderful.

Have you seen the final cut of New Moon yet?

I saw an early cut of it, yeah. Some of the special effects weren’t there, stuff like that. But I have to tell you, it’s funny because for writers, and for me – I often will dread a director’s cut. As a writer, you have already seen the movie in your head. And the movie in your head costs a gazillion dollars; you can’t actually make the movie in your head, but you’ve seen it. And so, a director’s cut is almost always a disappointment because it’s not what you’ve seen in your head. It can be a major adjustment, it’s not what’s in my head but this one’s different, but as good.

When I saw Chris’s cut, about ten minutes into the movie I started smiling. I thought to myself, I get to put my name on this. It was just so thrilling. It’s really good. I have to tell you, in all sincerity, it’s really good.

Fans want to know: Did the proposal scene make it into New Moon?

The proposal comes into the end of New Moon, and that is the first proposal. Absolutely in Eclipse, the proposal when they’re on the bed, yes — to me, that was a quintessential scene from the book. When Edward gets on his knees, with his mother’s ring, and she says yes — that was one of the most romantic scenes that Stephenie wrote in all four books.

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Eclipse Going to Be Dark

E! Online chatted with The Twilight Saga screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg who mentioned the dark turn that Eclipse will take in the film franchise.

To find out how dark Eclipse will be, we’ll have to wait until the movie actually comes out.

But Twi-screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg says there’s absolutely no doubt the third flick in the vampire franchise is taking a darker turn.

And she credits the storyline and director David Slade for that…

“David has a darker sensibility, so it clicks,” Rosenberg said. “The story has a slightly darker tone. I mean, it goes into a full-out battle, so it is darker in the nature of what it is. David was the perfect director for it.”

Rosenberg’s comments came just a day after Justin Chon, who plays Eric Yorkie in the Twi-movies, told me Eclipse is “gravitating toward more of a dark kind of moody film.”

But not to worry, Rosenberg said, Eclipse won’t be unrecognizable. “They have the continuity of having the same writers and same actors, but the directors put their own stamp on it,” she said. “They’ll be similar, but very different.”

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Will Breaking Dawn Make it to the Big Screen?

In a new article over at E! Online, Mark Malkin reports that he as exclusive information concerning Breaking Dawn straight from a Summit Representative -

While there’s been no official announcement that all systems are go for a fourth Twilight flick, a rep for Summit Entertainment promises that Eclipse will not be the last we see of Robert Pattinson & company…

“The fans should rest assured the we’re working with Stephenie Meyer to bring Breaking Dawn to the big screen,” the rep said. “As in all creative processes, things take time. We want to make sure we get it right.”

And as Twilight fans know, that probably means softening the more hard-core aspects of Breaking Dawn.

“Our fans are in the PG age range, and I don’t feel a big necessity to see violence and to see gore,” Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg told us in late April.

Gore or not, Kristen Stewart probably said it best when we chatted with her in March.

“We all really hope there is going to be a number four,” she said at the time. “I’m pretty confident that the fans aren’t going to…lose interest. The only case that a fourth one wouldn’t be made is if all of a sudden people stopped caring, and I really don’t think that’s going to happen.”

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Rachelle’s Final Scenes in New Moon Revealed

 

MTV News had a chance to sit down with New Moon screenwriter, Melissa Rosenberg. She had no problem giving the deets on one of Victoria’s (Rachelle Lefevre) final scenes in New Moon -

 New series director Chris Weitz, however, gave Rosenberg permission to get away from Bella’s point of view a few times — most notably in a scene where we’ll get a glimpse of the evil vampire’s road trip. “I was able to explore what Victoria was up to,” Rosenberg revealed. “And at one point, we cut away to Victoria driving really fast in a car.”

When any of us are driving a long way, we might swing into a 7-Eleven and grab a Gatorade, some Flamin’ Hot Cheetos or a Slim Jim. Victoria, however, prefers human flesh.

“She took a snack with her,” laughed Rosenberg, making reference to Victoria’s latest victim. “And she’s reminiscing about her days with James. I loved writing that scene.”

You can read the rest of the interview over at MTV.

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Hollywood.com – New Interviews from Comic Con

Check out this new interview from Hollywood.com!

We were lucky enough to chat with New Moon director Chris Weitz, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and star Ashley Greene during New Moon’s Comic-Con takeover. They had a lot to share about onscreen chemistry, creating the wolves, and Taylor Lautner’s resemblance to a certain Greek god.  

Chris, what were the challenges of adapting a Twilight book?
Weitz: In terms of the visuals, just sort of combining a sense of, I mean the last film I did [The Golden Compass] was set in a parallel universe, so we could reinvent the wheel. This one’s not only set in a very specific place, and in some ways a very workaday place, but also a place that had already been established in the previous film. And then to take it to flights of fantasy, the Volturi. Really, to be honest, its hiring someone like David Brisbin who is a genius production designer and Javier Aguirresarobe the D.P. who shot things in such a beautiful way. We were able to take a world that had already been established and put it in a setting that is just incredibly rich, and I think it’s quite beautiful.

We know the characters are close to people’s hearts, but Kristen and Robert have become true superstars, what do you think is the secret of their appeal?
Rosenberg: Personally for me, it’s how genuine they both are. They’re both very authentic people; that comes across on the screen.

Greene: They have great chemistry.

Rosenberg: They’re chemistry is incredible together, I mean visually as well. I think that sets them apart.

Check out the full interview HERE

Melissa Rosenberg Says Eclipse Script Hardest to Write

There’s a new interview with Eclipse screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg from the set of New Moon in Vancouver and she admits that the script for Eclipse was the most difficult one to write–

Q: Even though there’s been a 4th book, does that make writing the 3rd one easier since so many things get resolved from the 2nd?

You know ['Eclipse'] was hard. The 3rd one was actually one of the hardest of the three for me to write. You read the book it’s got a good deal of action and stuff and you think ‘Oh this is going to be the easy one’ and it turns out it’s not the easy one. It’s actually the hardest of all, and I was really tired, you know? So, I had to just gear up again.

Read the interview HERE

Hollywood.com Interview With Melissa Rosenberg

Hollywood.com has an interview with Melissa Rosenberg as she talks about writing the scripts for New Moon and Eclipse:

How was writing New Moon different from Twilight?
Melissa Rosenberg: In Twilight, you’re setting up the world. You’re introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn’t know who the actors were going to be. Now you’re going to New Moon and Eclipse, and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

 

New Moon is not about setting up the world, but it’s its own set of challenges because New Moon is very internal … There’s been a lot of talk about how Edward and the Cullens are not a part of the middle of New Moon, but actually they are. Certainly Edward is very much alive in Bella’s mind throughout New Moon … I think fans will be very satisfied with what we’re doing — one, because it’s true to the book and two, because there’s more Edward. That can’t be bad!

Can we surmise then that we’ll see more of the Cullens and Victoria throughout New Moon?
MR: I think you could surmise that, yes. Yes, you can. You will.

Read the entire interview HERE

Interview With Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg

 

MakingOf has this new interview with Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. In it she talks about how she adopted the Twilight Saga books to the screen.

 

Check it out HERE

Hold on Tight Spider Monkey

Twilight Lexicon has a really fun new article about the origins of the famous Twilight quote -

One of the most quoted lines of the Twilight movie is the “Hold on tight spider monkey.”  delivered by Robert Pattinson  just before he and Kristen Stewart take off into the trees.  As die hard Twilight fans realize, that line was not in the book.  So, did screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg pen that particular piece of dialogue? The answer is “no”.

Catherine Hardwicke tells MTV, ”

“I woke up in the middle of the night. I thought, ‘They’re going to be climbing that tree, and they’re not going to have anything to say. It’s just going to be another scene of them looking into each other’s eyes.’ ”

Unfortunately, the Writers’ Strike had begun, and “Twilight” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg was no longer available to provide dialogue. “So I typed up, like, 10 ideas,” Hardwicke recalled. “And thought, “OK, maybe they could say this …’ “

She let Rob choose which of the 10 lines he wanted to say and he went with the Spider Monkey one.