Rob Pattinson Monkeyed Around with Twilight Script

"You better hold on tight, spider money."

Love it or hate it, that line is perhaps one of the more memorable in the Twilight movie. Many fans were shocked to hear Catherine Hardwicke's revelation during the DVD commentary that Robert Pattinson himself had actually chosen that line.

In a recent interview with MTV.com, the Twilight director explained how that line came about.

"I woke up in the middle of the night. I thought, 'They're going to be climbing that tree, and they're not going to have anything to say. It's just going to be another scene of them looking into each other's eyes,' " Hardwicke recalls.

Unfortunately, due to the writers' strike at the time, Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg wasn't available to craft any lines. So Hardwicke hastily assembled a list of possible dialogue.

"I gave it to Rob, the whole list," Hardwicke recalls. "And I said, 'Rob, which one do you want to say?' And he goes, 'I want to say the spider-monkey one.' "

It seems like such a silly, cheesy line for the brooding Edward Cullen Rob Pattinson portrayed, but before we judge let's take a look at the the other options Catherine gave him to choose from.

Option 1:
Edward: You're not scared of heights, are you?
Bella: Not that I know of ...

Option 2:
Edward: Hold on tight ...
Bella: Don't worry ...

Option 3:
Edward: Wrap your legs around me like a spider monkey.
Bella: Done.

Option 4:
Edward: Got a good grip? Don't let go.
Bella: No chance of that, buddy.

Option 5
Edward: Prepare for liftoff ...

In my opinion, none of these seem particularly fitting - and I wonder why they, again, refused to use the original dialogue from the books.

Do you think he chose correctly? If not, which would you rather he had used?

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You Can't Have Twilight Without Rob Pattinson

At least, according to Melissa Rosenberg. And I think I speak for women everywhere when I say we wholeheartedly agree!



Mark Malkin from E! online interviewed Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg:

If Channing Tatum hasn’t read the Twilight books, he may want to start.

At least one very important person in the movie adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire love story thinks Tatum would be perfect to play bad-boy vampire Riley in Eclipse, the third in the four-book series.

“There’s a very big battle at the end with Riley, and I think Channing would do that so well,” Twilight and New Moon screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, who is currently writing the Eclipse script, told us this weekend at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival benefit for the Writers Guild Foundation.

“And there are some complexities to that character," she adds. "He really is tragic. He’s a puppet for Victoria [bad-girl vampire played by Rachelle Lefevre]. So he has to break your heart a little bit at the end when he realizes that she doesn’t want him. Channing could do that beautifully.”

Rosenberg also confirmed some good news for Robert Pattinson fans...

Even though Edward Cullen may not be in the New Moon novel as much as he is in the others, she promised we’ll be seeing plenty of the Brit actor in the flick, which is currently shooting in Vancouver with director Chris Weitz.

“In the book, he’s actually an enormous presence in [Bella’s] mind,” Rosenberg said. “He’s so present in her mind throughout the entire center of the book, so we really played off that, and it kept him alive in a slightly different way, but fans will feel it’s true to the book. You can’t have a Twilight without Rob Pattinson.”

And Rosenberg says you also can’t have a Twilight movie with anything more adult than a PG-13 rating. She has yet to be hired to write the script for the fourth, Breaking Dawn, but she thinks it’s safe to assume the book’s more graphic violent scenes will be tailored to keep it accessible for Twilight’s teen moviegoing audience.

“Our fans are in the PG age range, and I don’t feel a big necessity to see violence, and to see gore,” Rosenberg said. “I don’t need to see that. This whole series is more about their relationship. It’s not about the gore. I mean, there are some scary and special elements to it, but the series is really about relationships and coming of age and owning one’s power.”

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I'm a little upset at the prospect of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn being toned down to cater to a younger audience. The action and intensity are not gratuitous in the least and paint a very clear picture of just what Bella is signing herself up for by requesting that Edward change her. Censoring an already young adult book leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion.

And yeah... I was hoping the writers might take some creative liberties *cough* with the honeymoon scenes.

Twilight Examiner, Amanda Bell, Voices Thoughts of Many

We here at the Twilight Sisterhood love Amanda Bell, the Twilight Examiner, and I think she expresses what we're all thinking so eloquently here in her latest post. Thanks, Amanda! P.S. You can always find her listed under our favorites.

New Moon movie begins filming, Twilight fans have high expectations, can Chris Weitz deliver?

March 5, 1:40 PM

The film is beginning to roll, and expectations are high.

Consensus says that Twilight Saga fans have very high expectations for the quality of New Moon. Not only do we want good acting from Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and the rest of the cast, but we want good direction also.

Returning alongside the actors to the second installment of the Twilight Saga is Melissa Rosenberg, who some say is to blame for some of the disappointment fans had with the first movie.

Some fans even say that they will not return for the confirmed third part Eclipse if Chris Weitz and the cast don't improve the series through the second bat with New Moon.

Others are thrilled, saying they loved Twilight the movie and just can't wait to sink their teeth in (pun intended) New Moon.

This examiner is a little of both.

As the wonderful fans have pointed out, there were a few points in Twilight the movie that could have seriously been improved. Most say the "meadow scene," which Stephenie Meyer has said was her original inspiration for writing the book (a dream about two lovers in a meadow) Twilight, was inadequate and rushed. The famous "lion and lamb" quote was too soon.

Personally, I think that there were a few things missing from Twilight... and I don't want to see it happen again. Also, I think there were some parts that were added unnecessarily to take up the precious space we could've used to extend the meadow scene and the conversations between Edward and Bella or to see more about the Cullens, or to include the scene with Carlisle's painting, etc. (the list goes on).

The many things that simply cannot get lost in the shuffle are continuing to be debated, and the consensus is strong. We Twilight Series fans refuse to see New Moon lose some of its literary luster in the shuffle becoming a movie. While we understand that it is hard to translate a first-person perspective novel with little dialogue into a movie, we don't want to see the actual dialogue disappear, and certainly not the important events. We are fine to watch a three-hour movie if it will deliver to our expectations. In other words, New Moon should be made for the Twilight fans, not for commercial value, because - in case they haven't caught the memo - there are millions of us.