Screenwriter Teases PG-13, Vampire-Babyless Breaking Dawn
Beyond the recruitment of Bill Condon to direct it in two easy installments, the only thing the casual moviegoer really needs to know about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn is that its source novel features some, er, significant childbirth complications by young mother Bella Swan. The franchise's fans, who've pumped the franchise into the billion-dollar monolith it is, wanted the scene -- plus the vampire sex that begets it -- preserved from the start, PG-13 be damned. Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg would officially like to start deflating those hopes. [Mild spoilers follow.]
Rosenberg didn't offer much, but her response to a question posed by the L.A. Times about the fan outcry to preserve the vampire-baby's hemo-heavy introduction was discouraging enough:
On the fan site, on Facebook, all the comments are "It has to be R rated! You have to show the childbirth! Gore and guts and sex!" For me it's actually more interesting to not see it. You know, you can do childbirth without seeing childbirth ... it doesn't mean it's any less evocative of an experience.
But this is vampire childbirth! Followed by other immediate plot developments that require not only exposition but continuity. Isn't most of the Twihard population going to be 17 by summer 2012 anyway? If they're old enough to read it, they're probably old enough to see it, right? In any case, a meaty, physical, dramatic scene is the least Kristen Stewart deserves after nearly five years of furrow-browed bromides. Just make it happen.
· Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and Breaking Dawn [LAT via Vulture]
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The fans want Summit to fire Melissa and this is a prime example of why. She's an idiot and has no idea how to please the fans.
AMEN to "Blah" for the comment above. Melissa has done a piss-poor job to date of keeping intact events significant to plot line and character development. SO many important discussions, character aspects, and scenes were deleted from the first two movies, I'm hesitant to even watch Eclipse. I will, of course, but each time I'm more and more disappointed in her ability to execute ANYthing. If the leg hitch were to be cut from Eclipse, the fandom would actually spontaneously combust from rage. As far as Breaking Dawn goes, the details of two events - the honeymoon and the birth of the baby and the "death" of Bella - are KEY to the entire story line. The details of these scenes affect so many aspects of who these characters become, it would be a crime to omit them.
Seriously if there is no vampire ceaseran with the teeth mind you or Edward punching Venom into her heart with a syringe I will kill someone
If this shit does not make the movie, I am going to throw myself off a bridge--and drag Melissa Rosenberg with me.
As a former fan of the series, thank God the monstrosity that is Breaking Dawn is not being fully perserved in the series.
Also-- Citizen Bitch? Get over yourself. It's a book.
...You can't possibly be serious. That scene was a monstrosity and so deeply offensive on so many levels. The New Moon movie was great.
Good lord, the birthing was the most interesting thing that happened in the entire book! Everything else was just standing and talking and whining. Blah. XP
haha, yup Breaking Dawn was awful, written like a "dodgy, fanfiction" piece. I can't wait to see how in the h*ll they are going to make that book TWO watchable movies.
Cut the "leg hitch"! Cut the "leg hitch"! (Seriously: that's all it would take to rid our poor, beleaguered planet of all the Twi-tards? Or, to put it another way: anything, let alone this Velveeta-lite mess, can seriously claim a "leg hitch" as a dramatic linchpin...?)