Really? I had not heard that, but it explains a lot. I will have high hopes for movie 2 after the financial success of 1 (and yet, am really surprised that the phenomenal success of the books didn't spill over to the movie budget!) I hope whoever negotiates, etc on movie 2 can deliver!

Yes, it would be great if they were able to do a big budget Hollywood take on the Twilight books. It could be a wonderful movie!

I heard that too. It does seem a little unfair that with a bigger budget the new director will probably be praised for a better movie, but a lot of it will really just be improvements in the special effects.

The bottom line is the movie studios are in this for the money, so they are going to make as many movies as possible. Using that logic, I believe they will do New Moon.

What I think they should do for New Moon:
Show us Bella's 18 birthday party and everything with a little subtle foreshadowing of the Volturi.
Do the split with Edward
Explain the whole Werewolf thing and Jacob (Even as much as I loathe Jacob, you have to explain this if anyone will understand his relationship with Bella and Rensmee in the 4th book.)
Extend the whole Alice predicting Bella's death, trip to save Edward bit for the last 45 min of the movie....I know it is a stretch, but how else to make it work?

There's a good reason for that... it's because she IS Ava from Grey's Anatomy. :p

I just finished Twilight. I liked how they finally broke away from the love story a bit to show the hunt & give it a new angle. I will begin New Moon soon.

I think that would be good way to go.

I just finished Twilight and its so good. I did a no no and watch the movie before I read the book. The book is 100x better, in my opinion. I am reading New Moon and I am hoping to read Eclipse and Breaking Dawn before my break is over.

I have to see Twilight twice before I realize that it was Ava from Grey's Anatomy. My sister pointed it out.

I finished New Moon yesterday, so I'm moving on to Eclipse. I don't see why Bella wants to spend an eternity with Edward as a vampire, but is hesitant about his proposal.

That might have been the best way to do it
I always sit through movies like Twilight going , "Nope, that's not how it happened. THAT never happened!! Why didn't they include that? It was so important!"

I'm not sure if they've stated it in New Moon, but it's because the example to what "marriage" is, is her parents. That didn't work out well, so Bella doesn't have a high idea of marriage.

I finished the series today & loved it!! It may be because I read them all within a week and a half or two...

my oldest daughter has been wanting to read them - I vacillated on it, but finally [after a re-read] decided she could read them [she's 11]. She finished Twilight earlier today.

We're going to see the movie tomorrow, too :)

I read on Stephanie Meyer's website that she is mostly likely not going to release Midnight Sun which was the next Twliight book she was working on! This really bums me out!!!