As we wrote earlier, I had the privilege of visiting the editing room where The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 was being put together by director Bill Condon and his team in June.
Part 1 of our interview is here, and fans are going to love this fan-oriented interview.
A sample of our discussion is below, and you can read the entire piece here on our own TwilightSource.com. Part 2 of this interview will be released tomorrow.
Q: So how much collaboration did you do on the day to day script writing? I mean after doing Chicago and doing Dreamgirls as a screenwriter, I was wondering how’s the adaptation different going from a musical to a movie to going from this large volume of a book to a movie?
BC: Right, which I’d done before too. Gods and Monsters was an adaptation of a book, so that was something, but Melissa wrote these scripts-*his phone rings* Excuse me, this is her right now-
(laughter)
-which was great ’cause I mean you know I jumped into this in March or April or something and we were shooting-you know if you’re prepping two movies and all that stuff-so it was sort of just-it was kind of overwhelming right there in the beginning. So Melissa, who knew it so well and is such a solid, strong writer-we would collaborate and talk through scene after scene after scene, structure, all that stuff, and then she’d come back. And it was really very, as I said, very intense for several months. But it was her. It was her knowing the stuff inside out…and creating. She’s done a lot of creating too on these movies.
Q: Speaking of Melissa and Stephenie, I think it was you that pointed out the cameo first-
BC: Oh right! Yeah.
It was Laura from the Lexicon.(room points at Laura)
Q: What-how did that come about? Who’s idea was that?
BC: Um, I kinda like nudged them all into doing it.
(laughter)
BC: And I stuck them in the back so you could see them as Bella’s coming down the aisle and get a good glimpse of them, you know.
Thank you on behalf of all of us!
(laughter)
BC: Oh good! Well it makes sense ’cause she was at the diner, right? And they [the Cullens] don’t have that many friends, you know.
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