MakingOf has sent us their exclusive interviews with New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and producer Wyck Godfrey.  

Rosenberg discusses the process of using the rich material in the books to write the screenplays, collaborating with director Chris Weiz, and her virtual script re-writing process on Eclipse. Rosenberg, who is also the lead screenwriter on the popular series “Dexter,” also talked with MakingOf about Anna Kendrick’s amazing ability to improvise and the profound influence of each director’s style and visibility on each Twilight movie.

Godfrey discusses producing New Moon, the different directorial styles to each film and the decision behind each director in the Twilight Saga.

I have to agree with Melissa about Anna Kendrick (aka Jessica).   “I know, right?”   Love Anna!  

[Source: MakingOf.com Thank you Weston @ Making Of!!]

Check out Wyck Godfrey’s Interview after the break!

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Mark Malkin of E!Online has a new interview with the Twilight Saga screenwriter – Melissa Rosenberg. He recently caught up with her at the Entertainment Weekly Women in Film pre-Emmy party -

Just because Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are such a perfect match on screen, Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg thinks it’s time we mind our own business about what goes once the cameras stop rolling.

“Their chemistry on film is so extraordinary,” Rosenberg told us at the Entertainment Weekly/Women In Film pre-Emmy party. “They were beautifully cast for those roles and their chemistry is amazing. I think people often confuse chemistry onscreen with chemistry offscreen.

“I think people should just enjoy what’s onscreen and leave their privates lives wherever they are,” she continued. “I don’t actually know what they are.”

So what scoop did Ms. Rosenberg tell us about our fave vampire movies? Read on to find out…

First up, Breaking Dawn. Rosenberg is not allowed to could not confirm she’s going to be tackling the script. “That’s still up in the air,” she said. “We’re still talking and nothing’s been decided.”

Eclipse’s Riley (Xavier Samuel) will have a much bigger presence in the movie than he has in Stephenie Meyer’s novel. “This is a character that’s really interesting and I got a chance to flesh him out,” Rosenberg said, adding, “It’s going to be really interesting watching the relationship between Riley and Victoria [Bryce Dallas Howard] growing.”

Interesting. I wonder how ‘big’ Riley’s part actually is? Personally, his relationship with Victoria is of no interest to me! They should just scratch that and add extended tent scenes!

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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.

[Thanks RealMenGlitter & TSH!]

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There are several new video interviews from Comic-Con by Collider, including interviews with Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Melissa Rosenberg and director Chris Weitz where they spill new info on New Moon. Above is the interview with Chris Weitz.

Kristen and Taylor discuss -

• Can they prepare themselves for Comic-Con
• Did they see the people camped out for their panel
• Did they think about dressing up and standing with the fans incognito

Check out the interviews with Kristen, Taylor and Melissa Rosenberg after the break. .

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There are some new interviews with New Moon director Chris Weitz, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and actress Ashley Greene from Comic-Con by Hollywood.com . There are several interesting tidbits, including Weitz revealing–

Have you made any changes to the vampire makeup you saw in the first movie? Weitz: There’s more consistency between shots, if I were to be just coldblooded about it.The Volturi have a slightly different look, because they’re a different breed of vampire altogether. The diamond skin we’re remaking. It’s gonna be groovy.

How many versions of the wolf did you have, and cg wise, how long did that take to come up with? Weitz: Well, we knew very quickly that we wanted it to look like a wolf, just a very, very big one. Once you’ve made that crucial decision you don’t have to spend much time on look with R&D [Research and Development] and the concept and the renderings you usually have to do with monsters and those type of things. Getting very tedious details stuff like fur, the muscles, the fat over the muscles, the way the light is with the fur, that stuff takes months. We have a huge advantage in that it’s Phil Tippet’s studios. Phil Tippett is one of the greatest visual effects artists in the world.

Check out the rest of the interview over at Hollywood.com.

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Twilight Saga scriptwriter Melissa Rosenberg was intereviewed by HitFix for their series of articles from the Vancouver set of New Moon.

Melissa Rosenberg talks quite a bit about the process of writing New Moon and Eclipse, with these parts particularly relevant–

Q: Does writing the sequels present a whole different set of challenges than writing the ‘Twilight’ script?

Yeah, because in ‘Twilight’ you’re setting up the world. You’re introducing the world and you’re introducing characters 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,’ I could write [the characters] in my mind so it becomes a more comfortable world, you know? So, ‘New Moon’ is not about setting up the world, but it’s about it’s own set of challenges because ‘New Moon’ is very internal. I mean all of those…there’s a lot of talk about how Edward and the Cullen’s are not a part of whole middle of ‘New Moon’ but actually they really are. Certainly Bella’s very much alive in…I’m sorry Edward’s very much alive in Bella’s mind throughout ‘New Moon.’ As a reader you feel his presence. You feel that helping drive that story. Harder to do in film, you know? You have to somehow find his presence and bring it there without having thought bubbles constantly. And I think the solution is going to satisfy fans. It’s going to be very much in keeping with the book and the tone of the book. So I think it would be interesting to see how I think fans will be feel pretty satisfied with what we’re doing. One, because it’s true to the book and two because we see more Edward. So that can’t be bad.

Q: Are there a few direct quotes from the book?

What’s really hard is that I lose track of what’s the book and what’s me because my job to immerse myself in it and so I really lose track of what’s Stephanie and what’s me. But what I try to do as much as possible is use things directly from the book because I think there’s moments where the fans here that line, that classic line or whatever it is I try as much as possible to stay and sometimes you get kicked because a screenplay is 110 times [shorter than a novel.] Jacob is a great deal of fun to write. Charlie — Billy Burke is someone who you just can give a line to, you can give him a deep emotional line or a funny one-liner–this guy can deliver anything and always bring something new to it. And Emmett, I love writing Emmett as well. So obviously more offhand funny kind of characters…

Check out the rest of the interview at HitFix.

[thanks LMCullen!]

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