‘It’s an enormous challenge to choreograph on the page,’ Melissa Rosenberg reveals from Emmys red carpet.

In the midst of Emmy mania Sunday night (August 29) — Dresses! Nominees! Celeb couples! — which predictably revolved around the world of TV, pre-show viewers got a pleasant surprise as “Twilight” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg made her way down a very long red carpet at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Naturally, when MTV News caught up with the busy scribe, we had to press her for another update on the progress of the “Breaking Dawn” scripts.

“They’re coming along,” Rosenberg said. “I just flew in last night from working with ['Dawn' director] Bill Condon, prepping the scripts. It’s a lot of work, I’m exhausted,” she added. Rosenberg also revealed that she’s between 75 and 80 percent finished with the two screenplays. “But we’re intent on making them the best scripts yet.”

Regarding the biggest challenge she faces in finishing “Dawn,” parts 1 and 2, Rosenberg said it’s the climactic “battle scene” — in which the two opposing vampire groups face off in dramatic fashion at the end of the book — that’s proving to be her biggest obstacle, rather than the infamous “birth scene”.

“The final battle sequence is a big challenge because it lasts 25 pages,” Rosenberg told us. “It’s almost an entire three-act story in and of itself. You have to track (kept all in one setting) hundreds of characters. It’s an enormous challenge to choreograph on the page and for Bill to choreograph on the stage.”

Rosenberg went on to say that perfecting that scene is her “next big hurdle.”

“I’ve written a couple of drafts [of the scene]; I haven’t gotten with Bill [to go over it] yet. That’s the next big hurdle to sit down with the stunt coordinator and create the ballet.”

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At this year’s New Yorker Festival in New York City, Twilight series screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg will be participating in a discussion panel on the subject of “vampires in popular culture” with none other than Stephen King.

Stephen King has written vampire lore novels before, including Salem’s Lot, and, of course, Melissa Rosenberg has written the screenplays for Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2.

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There’s plenty to look forward to in the final two installments of “The Twilight Saga,” but while most of the attention being placed on “Breaking Dawn” parts one and two focuses on the birthing and imprinting scenes, there are plenty of other questions about the production of the film that need to be answered. For instance: there are so many new vampires introduced in the second half of the book that Stephenie Meyer had to add an appendix to help keep them all straight.

Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter behind “The Twilight Saga” who was at Comic-Con to speak at a “Girls Gone Genre” panel, was willing to chat with MTV about her work on the “Breaking Dawn” script, and about just how she was going to handle introducing so many new characters in such a short period of time to ultimately just stand around.

“It’s extremely challenging to introduce those new characters because you already have quite a slew of characters to service,” Melissa said. “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.”

Or in other words, pulling forward the ones that actually do something. We’re guessing the Denali coven (especially Tanya and Irina, but also Eleazar, Carmen, Kate and Garrett) get some good scenes in the film, and are probably developed a bit more in the films than they were in the main “Twilight Saga” (yes, we know Edward goes and hangs with them for a bit in “Midnight Sun”). The American nomads — Peter, Charlotte, Mary and Randall — will probably get some screen time as well, considering Jasper had lived with them in the past.

Melissa said that she hopes that “all of [the new vampires] will be there in one shape or another,” but we think that Summit will need a whole extra movie to aptly introduce the Amazonian coven (Zafrina, Senna an Kachiri), the Egyptian coven (Tia, Amun, Benjamin and Kebi), the European nomads (Alistair, Charles and Makenna), the Irish coven (Sobhan, Liam and Maggie) and the Romanian coven (Vladimir and Stefan). See, we needed a whole new paragraph! But as long as there are actors cast in each of the roles, so we can watch the film and be able to pick out which new vampire is which, we will be happy “Breaking Dawn” viewers.

Part of what’s nice about Melissa is that she is so tuned in to social networking sites, particularly her Facebook, so she takes into account what the “Twilight” fans think she should include in the scripts. “I ask people to really weigh in with what are their favorite scenes in the books, what’s important to them,” Melissa said. “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.”

Our suggestion to all of you is to send her your thoughts on which of the new vampires are absolutely integral to the “Breaking Dawn” films so she hopefully includes them in the scripts at some point or another. Who knows, maybe you could have some say in the final turn out of the films!

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Rob said recently he was very challenged by Slade in playing the role of Edward this time around, and that it felt like a new character. What was the dynamic between Rob and David like?
“You know, David has talked about how Edward has to go from having just gotten Bella back to literally ripping someone’s throat out at the end [of Eclipse]. It’s a hard journey to get to for a character. So I know David worked with Rob in terms of bringing out that dark aspect of him, and we worked together on the script to make sure that was in there.”

Change can be unnerving for an actor, so was Pattinson onboard to bring this new character out? Or did he prefer the Edward in Twilight and New Moon?
“Oh sure. Rob is a courageous actor. He wants something to chew on, as it were! He wanted something meaty to really be able to act.”

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Melissa Rosenberg, the screenwriter for the upcoming “Breaking Dawn” films, has put Twi-hard worries at rest — all the appropriate scenes will be steamy.

“There will be sex scenes – multiple sex scenes,” Melissa told Access Hollywood of the upcoming romance between Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her love, vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), as she hit the red carpet on Thursday night for “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” premiere.

“There will be feathers,” she added of Bella and Edward’s between-the-sheets moments, which involves the vamp biting a pillow.

Melissa said she is also putting in another scene devoted Twi-hards will be eager to see. (SPOILER ALERT for those who haven’t read the book!)

“There will be a child birth scene,” she added.

Previously, Kristen told Access she was curious about what the baby between Bella and Edward would look like and when asked if the little one would have baby Dracula teeth, Melissa suggested it was possible.

“I suggest she may,” Melissa smiled.

Melissa said she was hard at work on the script, and noted how far along she is.

“I am in the middle of ‘Breaking Dawn,’” she said. “I was doing ‘Breaking Dawn’ this morning and I will do ‘Breaking Dawn’ tomorrow morning. It’s right deep in the middle.”

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