It may be a terrible movie, but this “saga” has made a metric ton of money. The script for Twilight was written by Melissa Rosenberg. This series of films has made Melissa the highest grossing female screenwriter of all time.
August 17, 2012
Rewriting: Finding the Will to Take a Machete to Your Script
Jenna Avery of Script Magazine has written a helpful article about approaching rewriting with the right mindset — a mindset that is capable of cutting your favorite scenes, even restructuring your entire story, to make your script work.
She writes:
As I embarked recently on a major rewrite of a feature script, I bumped into a big wall of resistance. While I didn’t think my script was necessarily perfect, I was attached to my story in its then-current form. So even though I was getting feedback about the need for significant structural changes, I was struggling with the idea of letting go of much (okay, anything!) of the story.
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August 17, 2012
Quote of the Day: Robert Bresson
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
