Fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books may have revolted if the producers of the films had gone along with the original plan. The Twilight movies were slotted to be action films rather than a love story.
Entertainment Weekly reports that when the Twilight project was originally set up with Paramount Pictures, before the books were a hit, the studio was going to make the films action packed. They said "I mean, one of their drafts literally had a Korean FBI agent who was hunting and tracking vampires across the coast. There was SWAT in the trees and literally it was like, ‘Red leader, red leader 1′ and the vampires were picking them out of the woods. It would have been a different movie."
Fans of the books probably would've been furious with what they had planned for Bella's father, Charlie: "They had Bella fighting back. They had her father dying in one of the scripts, actually becoming a vampire in the first movie. There were a lot of weird things that I don’t think they understood at the time, because the books were just becoming popular. By the time [the script] got to Summit, they were smart enough to say ‘You know what? Let’s throw out all the old scripts and let’s start from scratch"
It's a little cloudy as to what the studio was thinking; maybe Edward with a gun? Bella doing Karate chops? Whatever it was, it was completely different from the story told in the books.
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would be even better then the book with they made it an action moive,
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