We lost the ‘Twilight’ Countdown yesterday, but here it is:
14 days left…
Two weeks and counting. Today I’ve got Part II of the Countdown’s Catherine Hardwicke interview. (Read Part I here if you missed it!)The director talks about the original “Twilight” script, sets the record straight about Robert Pattinson’s music and early reaction to the movie.
What were the major differences in the original “Twilight†script and the one eventually written by Melissa Rosenberg?
The very first thing in the script said that Bella was a track star. She’s obviously not a track star so the first moment you’re like whoa. And then she’s sitting in a diner with James and the bad vampires in the first couple pages. Wow, that doesn’t make sense. And there’s this whole FBI organization that’s tracking these bad vampires, the nomadic vampires, as they go down from Canada to Mexico. I mean, it’s pretty way out. And by the end the FBI is chasing them around on jet skis out in the ocean.
It kind of turned into ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ It was cool enough that when I read it I became curious. I went out and read the book and was like, ‘Whoa boy. Throw the script away and let’s start over.’ Out of fairness to the original writer, he’s a great writer, the book wasn’t out at the time the MTV and Paramount people were developing it. The idea of ‘Twilight’ was only a jumping off point and they did their own thing after that.
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