Video:New Moon Melissa Rosenberg Interview
with Rebecca MurrayScreenwriter Melissa Rosenberg adapted 'New Moon,' 'Twilight,' and 'Eclipse,' and although it's likely she'll continue with the franchise with 'Breaking Dawn,' as of the LA New Moon premiere she wasn't able to confirm she's taken on that job.
Transcript:New Moon Melissa Rosenberg Interview
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the LA Premiere of Summit Entertainment's New Moon.
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How much weight is on your shoulders every time you set out to tackle one of these books?
Melissa Rosenberg: "There's quite a bit of pressure but ultimately I have to sort of disappear into my little room with my keyboard and kind of shut the world out, because it really is about just relating to the book and really going inside the book. You have to kind of shut out the rest of the world a little bit."
So don't pay attention to what they write on message boards, you don't pay attention to what the internet says about how a book should be adapted or anything like that?
Melissa Rosenberg: "I do. I have a Facebook page and I check in with fans all the time, and that's wonderful to hear. I try to avoid some of the bigger...because inevitably whenever I go online it's like I read the one guy who's gone, 'Don't let her do it. You suck! Can't someone else write that movie?' So my husband actually pre-screens all that for me because it affects me. I get really like, 'Oh, they don't like me.'"
But it's not you, it's the fact that people love the books so much, they're so possessive of it.
Melissa Rosenberg: "Yes, they are and rightly so. It's an extraordinary storytelling."
I just got into Dexter and I just watched all three seasons to catch up. Is that fun to write?
Melissa Rosenberg: "It's so fun to write. I love writing the black humor of that. The black comedy is just... And writing for Michael C Hall, that guy is so dry. Everything you write, he just adds something to it. He's so good."
The writing is so sharp. Everything that's uttered, there's a reason behind it.
Melissa Rosenberg: "Thank you so much. We have a lot of fun writing it."
Back to this, they've hired you for Breaking Dawn? Are you allowed to say that yet?
Melissa Rosenberg: "I can't comment on that."
There's no way you're not going to be doing it.
Melissa Rosenberg: "Well, it would be an honor of course. If I only adapted Stephenie [Meyer] the rest of my career, that'd be just fine with me, you know?"
Are you going to do The Host?
Melissa Rosenberg: "I would love to do The Host. I just love her storytelling. She has such a rich imagination and rich sense of character."
Of the three that you have done, was there one of the three that was the most difficult?
Melissa Rosenberg: "You wouldn't think it but Eclipse was. Yeah, you wouldn't think so because there's this big action sequence, but then you really that all that action sequence, that's at the end of the movie. So there you are, 'Wow, what are we doing with the front half?' Obviously we're having all the characters and relationships, but just portraying that triangle in a very thick book you need to condense. It was a challenge, but it might be one of my favorites. I'm not sure. I don't know which is my favorite."
It's my favorite book of the series.
Melissa Rosenberg: "I have to say this movie - have you seen it yet?"
Yes.
Melissa Rosenberg: "I have to say I quite love it."
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