Exclusive Interview: Writer Melissa Rosenberg, From Dexter to The Twilight Saga
October 8, 2009 by RetroEd
Filed under Featured, Other Networks
Writer Melissa Rosenberg is in a unique position. As an executive producer/writer on Showtime’s Dexter, she’s helping to guide one of television’s most innovative series, in which serial killer Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) channels his “dark passenger” in such a way that he uses his urge to kill to remove those who truly deserve to die. At the same time, she is the screenwriter behind The Twilight Saga, the film series based on author Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance novels, the second film of which, New Moon, is reaching theatres on November 20th. The following exclusive interview with Rosenberg is broken into four distinct segments.
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Michael C. Hall as Dexter
The series, now in its fourth season, is reaching a wider audience than ever before. This year, Dexter is trying to balance his inner nature with the fact that he's newly married and a brand new father. Added to the mix is the serial killer Trinity (John Lithgow). In this portion of the interview, Rosenberg details the challenges of keeping the show fresh and the line it needs to walk so that it doesn't go "over the top."
SEGMENT 2: SCRIPTING THE TWILIGHT SAGA
How challenging is it to take a best-selling book series turned phenomenon and adapt it to the big screen? Rosenberg tries to detail the process, noting what elements from the books are necessary to maintain and what needs to be altered.
SEGMENT 3: THE TWILIGHT SAGA - NEW MOON
Rosenberg discusses the strengths of the new film, offering her feelings about how Taylor Lautner has inhabited the role of werewolf Jacob Black, the emotional core of the film and what director Chris Weitz is bringing to the franchise.
Eclipse director David Slade
Each director brings something new to the individual chapters of The Twilight Saga, and in the final part of the interview, Rosenberg shares her feelings on what David Slade (30 Days of Night) is introducing to the franchise.
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