Since I don’t give a flying f*ck about the TWILIGHT SAGA, I’m not sure how spoilery this is, but I’m guessing that’s it’s pretty damn spoilery… at least, for those who haven’t read BREAKING DAWN, and who only plan on checking out the fourth (and fifth) installment(s) in theaters next year.
So yeah, spoiler alert. With that out of the way, the L.A. Times had a chance to sit down and talk with BREAKING DAWN screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg about what it’s been like adapting Stephanie Meyers most controversial (i.e., shitty) entry in the series. Here’s just a snippet of what she had to say about how the SEX scene between Belle and Edward and the scene of Belle’s GRAPHIC BIRTH will be handled.
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.
In other words, she was hired to adapt an R rated book (in terms of the above-mentioned scenes) into a PG-13 movie. Not that I blame her or the studio (they’d be dumb to release an R rated TWILIGHT movie), I just blame…. society for allowing the fourth film to be made at all. Or is it that I simply don’t care either way? Could be.
Regardless, to check out the full interview with Rosenburg, in which she talks up Meyers books and director Bill Condon, click HERE, and be sure to watch ECLIPSE in theaters June 30, 2010.
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