Twilight: Director’s Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer

The Story of How We Made the Movie based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer!

In this intimate book, readers will follow visionary director Catherine Hardwicke through the creative process that went into transforming Stephenie Meyer’s breathtaking novel into box office gold. Designed to replicate the director’s own personal notebook that she kept on set, readers will discover the inside secrets on wardrobe, storyboard sketches, behind-the- scenes photographs, personal notes about Catherine’s favorite scenes, and much more.

Praise for the film Twilight:
“Epic! Sexy, stylish and altogether the coolest movie of the year”
- Shawn Edwards, Fox TV

“. . . getting Catherine Hardwicke to direct Twilight was a shrewd move, because the youthquake specialists of Thirteen treats teen confusion without a trace of condensation. . . .She has reconjured Meyer’s novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects.”
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it’s hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.”
- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Twilight: Director’s Notebook Review

I’m still giving this 5 stars, but there were a few things that I found a tiny bit disappointing…

1. The book is 163 pages, but there is not much text and the pages are small. It took me less than and hour to read it from cover to cover.

2. The book is written in Catherine’s handwriting which can be hard to read sometimes.

3. I thought the book could have covered the topics more in depth. I thought the chapters about how they shot various scenes were interesting, but they made me wish I could ask her questions (and get the answers!). There were so many more things I wanted to know about how and why she made different decisions in shooting the movie.

Despite those 3 things, I still thought the book was really interesting and fun to read. I saw the movie twice in the theaters and this book made me excited for the DVD release (especially the bonus material). I realized after reading the Director’s Notebook there were lots of little details from the movie I had missed. Here’s one example: After the nomad vampires kill the security guard they wear his clothes, James wears his jacket and Victoria wears his “Kiss me, I’m Irish” t-shirt. I never noticed that before.

This book also made me realize how difficult it is to a translate a book into a film and how budget constraints can really limit a director’s vision. I feel sad that it didn’t work out for Catherine to do New Moon because you can tell how much she loves Twilight and put everything she had into this movie.

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