New Moon - No sleep allowed
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
We might feel sorry for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson because they haven't had a spare minute to themselves since Twilight came out but screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg deserves even more sympathy.
She has been working seven day weeks for months as she also writes for hit series Dexter.
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Melissa told Hitfix: "I was writing New Moon pretty much after Twilight wrapped so I was writing Dexter as well, so from May of last year through to November I was doing five days a week on 'Dexter' and two days a week on New Moon. My husband was thrilled, but he was a good sport and brought me snacks and things like that.
"And then after that I think I finished a first draft right around the time Twilight opened."
Melissa had finished the Eclipse script by the end of May. She works so fast!
Melissa found working with New Moon director Chris Weitz quite different from working with Catherine Hardwicke on the first movie.
She explains: "It's been different every time. In Twilight Catherine was on-board before I came on. So, I had her input right from the start and because we were working on a very, very tight schedule. Over the course of about a month I wrote the outline and then they said 'Can you do a draft in five weeks?' And I said 'Sure.' (Laughing.)
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"And then they said 'When do you want to get it made because of the writers strike?' We were fighting the October 31st date, and well, what should I do? And that was a 24/7 slam fest and Catherine was very, very important in that process because I was able to get her immediate feedback. So, I'd finish a draft or scene or act or whatever and shoot it to her and get her immediate feedback right there so I could really tailor it very clearly for her and what she wanted to make it - what she wanted the movie to be.
"It was a very, very collaborative process. You know as you can imagine New Moon we didn't have a director on-board when I started writing that and so that was kind of me alone. Of course the Summit folks, you know the producers of Summit, they're all the people who I then become collaborative with and get their notes and their feedback, but it was pretty much me until Chris came on and that was November, I think. So then Chris got involved and I start tailoring it to what he's looking for and by then the project's kind of done and then he goes off and he starts shooting it and Chris is a writer himself so he was really able."
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