Collider has a detailed interview with Melissa Rosenberg. Her are some of the topics covered in the 10+ minute discussion.

“Melissa Rosenberg

* How has it been for her going back and forth from Dexter to Twilight
* 1:00 – How was working for David Slade different compared to Catherine Hardwicke and Chris Weitz
* 2:45 – How much time did she spend writing each Twilight movie. She says she had the most time on Eclipse
* 3:50 – Did she notice anything missing out of Eclipse that she wrote
* 5:20 – Breaking Dawn talk – How long has she known that it was going to be 2 films.
* 6:40 – How happy is she that the press release finally got released that the movie will be two films and how long ago did she start writing the two scripts. She says the fall or winter of last year she was writing it. Says she was writing before her deal was made.
* 7:45 – Has she spoken to director Bill Condon and how did things change when she got involved
* 9:35 – When she first heard that Bill Condon was going to direct it, what was her reaction
* 10:25 – With the 4th book being the most controversial among the fans, how is it for her to tackle the writing? She talks about how some fans want an R rating and she explains why it doesn’t have to be so graphic”

Melissa Rosenberg Interview TWILIGHT ECLIPSE, BREAKING DAWN – A funny movie is a click away

Eclipse | Melissa Rosenberg | Summer Movies 2010

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We just got the heads up on a contest going on over at Melissa Rosenberg’s Official Facebook Fanpage.  On a personal note, it’s a pretty decent page. It doesn’t over spam your feed (posts only like maybe once a month) and you get some pretty cool behind the scenes photos when Melissa does post.

“We’ve crossed over 10,000 fans! You are all so amazing, and to express my gratitude, I want to start a little contest. If you can all recruit your friends and we get to 20,000 fans by the time the film opens on June 30, I will send three people a signed copy of the script for either TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, or ECLIPSE. So get all your friends involved – only nine more days to go!”

http://www.facebook.com/melissa.rosenberg”

And speaking of Melissa, there is a great new interview with her up on IESB:

IESB: How did you originally get the job to write the Twilight films?

Melissa: It was really through my relationship with Summit – the studio – with whom, after all this is done, I will have done all six movies that I’ve written with them, which has got to be some kind of record. But, I had done Step Up with them and it was such a great collaboration. They actually wanted me to do Step Up 2, and I was just like, “You know, I’ve already written it.” It was not a continuing storyline, so it was basically just writing it again, and I was like, “How can I do it any better?”

So, I bowed out of that and went, “Oh, god, they’re going to hate me. I just lost my whole relationship.” And then, about eight months later they called and said, “How do you feel about teens and vampires?,” and I was like, “I love it!” I’m so into the genre. So, I read the book in one eight-hour sitting, and then went in and talked to Summit and Catherine [Hardwicke], and it was an instant marriage. Embarrassingly, it was one of the easiest jobs I’ve ever gotten. I think it works like that, when it’s just meant to be. That’s what I’ve found, over the years, as I’ve gone out for jobs. When you have to go through hoops, it’s never right. When it’s right, it just happens. Step Up was like that, Dexter was like that and this was like that.

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The Hollywood Reporter has one of the best interviews with Melissa Rosenberg that I’ve seen recently.  She talks about her relationship with Stephenie Meyer, her thoughts on Team Jacob and Team Edward, and how they are making Breaking Dawn into two films.  There is a lot of content in this interview and it should be noted that there is a bit of rough language and mature conversation about the intimacy between Bella and Edward.  So please be warned that this is not language you would ever see in the books or hear in the movie.  But overall, a wonderful interview!

What’s the last question that you asked [Stephenie]?
Rosenberg: It would have been about the Volturi.

I love that you know that right away: “I know it was about the Volturi …”
Rosenberg: (laughs) I think it may have been something to do with, in her mind, in “Breaking Dawn,” what were the Volturi up to? We don’t see them until the end. And in her mind, what was driving them? She’s lived with these characters a lot longer than I have. She has a very intricate mythology and very detailed backstories for all these guys. At one point, I had so much in there about their backstories — it’s very interesting what she’s come up with and what I could expand on.

Oh, so you can actually work from stuff that’s not in the books.
Rosenberg: Oh, yeah. And that’s hopefully something that’s going to be fun for the fans. I was able to bring a lot of my own invention. Because the book is not quite two movies. There’s air, there’s room. With the other three it’s been a lot of condensing. And with “Breaking Dawn,” if you’re doing two, there’s a little air. It opens it up. But I need to stay true to the mythology. I mean, I can’t have it turn out that the head Volturi actually wanted to be a tap dancer and did vaudeville for a while.

In an interview with MTV, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg hinted that the birth scene in Breaking Dawn may take place off screen and that she would leave it to director Bill Condon to decide.  Yet it seems many fans took her comments to mean that we wouldn’t get a birth scene at all or any “feathers.”  Here’s how Rosenberg responded to the worries.

“Hi y’all! Not sure where some of you got the impression I intended to leave birth scene out of Breaking Dawn, but it’s inaccurate. Of course the birth scene will be in there! And the sex scenes! And the feathers! And the blood! Perhaps you misinterpreted what I said about not needing to see BUCKETS of blood in order to convey the terror of the birth scene. But rest easy all! xoxo Mel”

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So what did you think of the latest Melissa interview?

This should be good. ed is known for his on point interviews with behind the scenes folks like Wyck Godfrey and David Slade. Check out the audio interview here.

FearNet and Jen Yamato are back with another great Q & A, this time with Melissa Rosenberg.

“You’ve now written three full films in the franchise; how much has each script responded to critiques, from fans and/or critics, of the previous films?

I’m not sure; everybody who’s involved in them, we really try to do our best to stay true to the book. There are going to be some people who don’t like that and some people who do, and if you start responding to the people who don’t like it you start pissing off the people who did. So you have to be true to your own creative instincts for what works and what doesn’t. If people ignored the movie and boycotted it coming in and it didn’t do well, then I think we would be listening. But the movies have done tremendously, so obviously somebody likes them! So we keep going with our gut.

How early on did Stephenie share with you the events and character details that made it into her new Twilight novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner?

It would have been in the outline stage. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to introduce Riley; that was one of my first ideas: let’s open on Riley and how he was created. Coming up with a back story for him and all of that. I think I had probably finished a draft of the outline, it was somewhere around then, and I was asking [Stephenie] about what the newborns were up to — what was going on for them while Bella’s living her life, because they’re living it simultaneously? And that’s when she shared it with me and I was really able to fill out some of their activities and how Riley was directing them. So it was right there in the beginning.”

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