The Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $1 billion in worldwide receipts and consists, to date (May 2010), of two motion pictures. The first installment Twilight was released on November 21, 2008, and the second installment, The Twilight Saga: New Moon followed on November 20, 2009, breaking box office records as the biggest midnight screening and opening day in history, when it grossed an estimated $72.7 million in its first day of release.
The series was in development since 2004 at Paramount Pictures, during which time a screen adaptation of Twilight which differed significantly from the novel was written. Three years later, Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the film. After Twilight grossed $35.7 million on its opening day, Summit announced they would begin production on New Moon; this after they had acquired the rights to the remaining novels earlier that same month. The third installment, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is scheduled for release on June 30, 2010 and is the first Twilight film scheduled to be released in IMAX. An adaptation of Breaking Dawn is projected to begin shooting late in 2010 with a November 18, 2011 release date; it will potentially be divided into two separate films.
Twilight was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures's MTV Films, during which time a screen adaptation which differed significantly from the novel was written. The script featured night-vision goggles and transformed Bella into a hip track star. Stephenie Meyer stated that there was some debate in allowing the movie to be made due to the negative or positive outcome of the movie compared to the book, '"They could have put that [earlier] movie out, called it something else, and no one would have known it was Twilight!" The idea of seeing a scene converted correctly, specifically the meadow scene, convinced Meyer to sell the rights. In seeing the script, she was frightened that she had made the wrong decision. However, when Summit Entertainment reinvented itself as a full-service studio in April 2007, it successfully acquired the rights to the novel. Erik Feig, president of production at Summit Entertainment, guaranteed a close adaptation to the book. The company perceived the film as an opportunity to launch a franchise based on the success of Meyer's book and its sequels. Meyer felt that Summit was open to letting her be a part of the film. Catherine Hardwicke was hired to direct the film, and soon afterward, Melissa Rosenberg, who wrote a new screenplay shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novel's storyline, was selected to be the film's structural base as the writer of the film.
Rosenberg developed an outline by the end of August, and collaborated with Hardwicke on writing the screenplay during the following month. "She was a great sounding board and had all sorts of brilliant ideas.... I'd finish off scenes and send them to her, and get back her notes. "Due to the impending WGA strike, Rosenberg worked full-time to finish the screenplay before October 31. In adapting the novel, she "had to condense a great deal. "Some characters from the novel were not featured in the screenplay, whereas some characters were combined into others. "Our intent all along was to stay true to the book," Rosenberg explained, "and it has to do less with adapting it word for word and more with making sure the characters' arcs and emotional journeys are the same." Hardwicke suggested the use of voice over to convey the protagonist's internal dialogue – since the novel is told from Bella's point of view – and she sketched some of the storyboards during pre-production.
Meyer and Harwicke had a close relationship while developing Twilight. Hardwicke wanted to embrace the experience and make the characters in the books come to life. She would call Meyer after changing a scene slightly, which surprised the author because, "I've heard the stories...I know it's not normally like that when you adapt a book." Meyer, a natural pessimist, was waiting for the worst, but instead, called her experience in the film's adaptation "the best I could have hoped for."
In July 2008, Warner Brothers announced that due to the success of The Dark Knight, they would move Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from its original November 21, 2008 release date to a July 21, 2009 summer release. Summit Entertainment jumped at an opportunity to move Twilight, which was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 2008, to the date previously belonging to Harry Potter', which, coincidentally added fuel to the debate between the two fandoms.
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