During a New Moon DVD Release Party at a Fred Meyer in Seattle WA, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg commented on writing the script for Breaking Dawn, saying we will not all be happy, but that she hope she captured the emotional journey Bella takes.  (Does this worry you at all?)

How do you condense an 800-page book into a two hour movie?

MR: “Very carefully. You start with, and you end with, what is the emotional journey for these characters. That is the most important thing to capture, that is the only thing to capture. Everything else is up for grabs, but you must take these characters on the same emotional journey that they took in the book, and hence take the audience on the same emotional journey that they took in the book and that’s the goal, you hope that you achieve that. some people would say I did, some people would say I don’t.”

Do you get any feedback from the fans when you, for example.. cut certain scenes?

MR: “I have a fan site, and the fans will weigh in and say wow! you’ve cut too many things out.. or say I’ve done a fantastic job. They are very kind on my site, there are other sites I know that I don’t read, because I can’t handle that kind of intensity. You can’t make all the fans happy, you try to make as many as possible happy.”

How is that going to be a challenge for the last one? (’Breaking Dawn’) because as you know, that’s the big one.

MR: “It’s the big one, it’s gonna be a big challenge, and I guarantee you that not all of the fans will be happy, and I guarantee you some of them will be.
You have to give up the ideal of making everybody happy, it’s just not gonna happen, but you hope you make the majority happy. Again, for that last book it is about taking that specific character Bella on her journey. It’s a big journey, it’s a massive change for her, and you hope to realize that.”

What did director Chris Weitz bring to ‘New Moon’ that you think was valuable to the series?
MR: “He was so good. He opened up the franchise. He opened it into this sweeping epic story. Twilight was a very intimate personal movie. it was a small movie, it had almost an independent feel to it. Chris made it into a beautiful spectacle, he really expanded it, expanded the world of it.”

Going back to ‘Breaking Dawn’, how far along are you in the planning, with production coming up pretty soon?

MR: “It’s coming up very soon, it’s all deep into the discussions and working on the story, and figuring out what it’s gonna be… we’re deep in the middle of it.”

Any word on when it will “officially” be green-lit?

MR: “I don’t know, but obviously soon.. vampires aren’t supposed to age, so you know.”

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This DEFINITELY worries me. It is like she already knows the script sucks and is going to get heat. Anytime a writer takes that kind of “some will like it but some wont” approach it worries you because lets face it that shows a lack of confidence in their work for the most part. If she stuck to the books for the most part then Twilighters who read the books would at least appreciate the script because it wouldnt be her to blame for cutting or changing stuff…..it would be SM’s fault for anything we didnt like lol. This definitely worries me and the one thing this interviews seems to scream is that the script is changing something up…..what that something is…well I guess we’ll just have to see in the long run. Who knows maybe she is changing up the ending a bit so it isnt as anticlimatic. I know that scripts change the endings of movies based on books all the time so I guess she is really keeping us on edge!

I don’t know which way to go on this. I think BD could use some help but I’m not sure Rosenberg can provide what it needs.

I agree Joyce. Hearing that there are changes actually makes me hopeful but hearing that she is providing the changes makes me worried lol.

I don’t know how to take this. It could be bad, or good.

To be honest, I haven’t been to impressed with the scripting. It will be interesting to see her side of Breaking Dawn.

Sorry, this woman cannot be trusted! they shouldve let her go a long time ago!! her lines are so cheesy, so cheesy it made nm look like a joke to the ppl outside the twilight world! most of the twihards/twilighters dont like her i really wonder why she is still here! nothing can be done now, i am sorry for being pestimistic but its like waiting for a time bomb to explode. i just pray we still have a good portion of the wedding, honeymoon, cullen family time and who can forget all the good times w Emmett! he completly shined in BD.. and i know Mr. Lutz would be able to pull off!

Heck yes, I am worried……Rachelle, Joyce and Trish I totally agree with all of you. This article has made my stomach hurt. I mean, BD is what it is, SM could’ve done a better job, much better job with the ending….but MR….not a good writer. I don’t know why Summit didn’t dump her after Twilight?! Hopefully, IF anything is changed, it will be all the crappy Jacob POV and not Part 1…IE: thwe wedding and the honeymoon. So, Twilighters we just have to play the waiting game and see what happens. Pray we aren’t too disappointed.

You said what I was thinking.