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Before Twilight reached Summit Entertainment’s hands, you probably already know, the original movie rights belonged to Paramount MTV, and Sagaproducer Mark Morgan recently spoke up about how things looked for Twilight before it switched hands.
“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 one,′ and the vampires were picking them out of the woods,” he explained of an early version of the script. “[The fans] would have killed us.”
“They wanted to go more with an action movie . . . They had Bella 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 it 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.’”
Can you imagine?
Twilight definitely has its fair share of flaws, but at the very least the movie didn’t botch the entire Sagathe way Morgan explained it could have. Puts things in perspective quite a bit. And people might suggest that Twilight fans will see the films whether they are good or not, but ten bucks says if that had been sent our way, we would’ve probably passed on the option of continuing it beyond the first. It’s hard to imagine things without the Twilight series films rolling out the way that they are right now, though! So, it’s good on the studio for realizing that the fans want(ed) films which coalesce with the books’ stories.
Via Amanda Bell: Twilight Examiner
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