Saturday, September 25, 2010

‘The Twilight Saga’ Was Almost Made Into An Action Series!

Bella & Edward
 
Hollywood Life interviewed Twilight producer Mark Morgan who reveals that a different studio nearly bought the rights to Stephenie Meyers’ books — and turned Edward and Bella’s love story into a vampire action flick!



So what WOULD you have seen in this parallel Twilight universe? “They wanted to go more with an action movie,” Mark explained. “They had Bella [Kristen Stewart] fighting back. They had her father dying in one of the scripts, actually, and her 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.”
 We’re not talking little tweaks here and there either, BFFs — Mark says Paramount wanted to change EVERYTHING about the movie you love so much! “[They wanted to change] everything,” he confirmed. “Ironically, I love Paramount, but I do not think they would have hired Catherine, our first director. They would have gone for someone bigger. Boys. More action. 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, read leader 1′ and the vampires were picking them out of the woods. It would have been a different movie.”

5 comments:

  1. hmmm... that sounds nice actually. i think i'll dig that.

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  2. I'm really glad that the movies were made as they have been. They have stuck to the books well. I think there would have been a huge backlash had the movies not been made how they were.

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  3. Too bad, I always found there wasn't enough action in Twilight :/

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  4. Yeah, action would have been great!

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