- “Twilight”Catherine Hardwicke, the director, said that she was not happy with the original script.
- Hardwicke stated that the screenplay was too far removed from the book series.
- She said that there was even a scene with Bella Swan. “on jet skis being chased by the FBI.”
“Twilight”Catherine Hardwicke, director, said “The Big Hit Show”Podcast: The original script featured a scene with Bella Swan “on jet skis being chased by the FBI.”
Based on a Stephenie Meyer book, the 2008 film starring Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson was hugely successful and inspired four sequels.
Two episodes “The Big Hit Show”Alex Pappademas hosted the podcast about how “Twilight”The movie was made. Pappademas read portions of the original draft script, including one scene in which Bella fires a shotgun on a jock vampire.
Mark Lord, who wrote the draft screenplay told Pappademas he was instructed to add more action to his story by MTV Films when the movie was being made.
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“They wanted it to take a concept and build in a structure that was far more like a cinematic structure,”He stated. “And they wanted to just put in some more action to advance it more and give something more for the male audience. They thought they were going to lose the male audience with too much of a romance.”
Hardwicke, however, was the film’s director. She told Pappademas she didn’t like the first script.
“I said, ‘First of all, this script has to go in the trash. No good. You’ve got to make it like the book. It’s the reason, I think, people online read the book, they like it, is because there’s this feeling of the first time you’ve ever fallen in love. And it’s kind of an ecstatic feeling. And you have none of that in this script,’ which was in turnaround from Paramount,”Hardwicke spoke on the podcast.
She continued: “And the original script literally had Bella on jet skis being chased by the FBI. She was a star athlete. Nothing to do with the book.”
Pappademas said that Meyer, the author, was also unhappy with the original manuscript. Summit Entertainment was granted the rights to the movie and they produced it. “Twilight”Lord was eventually replaced by Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote the scripts for the entire franchise.