Melissa Talk
“It’s extremely challenging to introduce those new characters because you already have quite a slew of characters to service,” Rosenberg told MTV News during the “Girls Gone Genre” panel at Comic-Con. “The Cullen family is large, the wolf family is large, you have three leads… finding room for all of them is a challenge.”
“For me, it is about pulling forward the ones that are essential and really making sure they have a presence,” she added.
She also mentioned that to help her choose which scenes to put into the script, she asked for the opinions of other people, even fans.
“I ask people to really weigh in with what are their favorite scenes in the books, what’s important to them,” Rosenberg noted. “And there generally seems to be a consensus about one scene or another. It’s really helpful for me and I’ll interact with them sometimes.”
“I don’t know where that idea came from, but that is not true,” she said of Internet rumors she wouldn’t be including the Book of Jacob. “We are going to see Jacob’s perspective equally, so don’t worry.”