Melissa Rosenberg Takes a Bite Out of Twilight

By Andrew Gnerre
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/twilight_melissa_rosenberg_catherine_hardwicke_robert_pattinson_20081110/
With Twilight, the series of teen-lit vampire romance novels that have courted 13-year-old girls and their mothers more heroically than Miley Cyrus ever could, there are two factions: The uninitiated and the over-initiated. But come November 21, only the latter bloc will remain as the first novel's movie adaptation, directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, will be released in the United States. A few weeks before the predictable chaos of screaming fans and swooning pre-teens reaches its tipping point, MM spoke with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who was unaware of Twilight altogether (blasphemous, we know) when she was offered the job of adapting it for the screen.