'Twilight' series screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks about working with the different directors

Melissa Rosenberg - AP Photo

Melissa Rosenberg, screenwriter for the Twilight series films, has a pretty tough job.

She has to take an infinitely explored and intimate set of characters and events and help put them on the big screen.

According to a recent interview Rosenberg did with the Seattle Times, the difference between books and their adaptive movies is like "a painting versus a sculpture."

So are the differences between the directors for the three movies, it seems: Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Chris Weitz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon), and David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse).

According to her, there were distinctions in her working relationship with the three as well.

"For Catherine, we had very little time to work on "Twilight," I was feeding her pages ... and immediately it was a very intense collaboration. With Chris, I'd already finished the second draft before he came on board, so I did a round or two and handed it off to him, and he made changes. ... David is a very visual director ... so with 'Eclipse' I was able to write out specifically some of the sequences per his direction," she revealed.

Notably, Rosenberg also stated that "[d]dapting a book is not simply taking the book and putting it in screenplay format. You would have the longest dull movie in the world."

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