New Moon Unofficial Film Script — Close to Home (Part 3)
SEQ. EXT. Rain forest. Edward is running ahead of Emmett, then suddenly stops to crouch defensively in the direction from where they’ve come from. Emmett copies his stance.
EMMETT
What’s wrong?EDWARD
Someone’s tracking us. May or may not be one of us.
Emmett goes up a tree while Edward goes behind the trunk of another tree. When a figure appears, Emmett jumps to land on his back.
ROSALIE
Emmett! You’ve messed up my hair! Get off me!EMMETT
Babe!ROSALIE
Monkey man!
Emmett grabs Rosalie and crushes her against a tree to kiss her passionately. The trunk breaks and drops from the force of impact. The lovers continue kissing.
ROSALIE
Time to come home.EMMETT
Cool! What about Victoria?ROSALIE
Another time. Another place. (meaningfully) Can you wait for me at the hotel, babe?EMMETT
Yeah!
Emmett leaves. Edward comes out from behind the tree where he stayed to give the couple some privacy.
EDWARD
(impatiently) Why are you making dress patterns in your head, Rosalie? Don’t you think I know that Carlisle sent Emmett to babysit me? I don’t need to read his mind or yours to see that.ROSALIE
Alice had a vision. About Bella.
Edward becomes very still.
SEQ. INT. Swan Living Room. Jacob is shaking from his emotions of almost losing Bella. Alice realizes the danger and comes out of her vision.
ALICE
Control yourself! Think of Bella!JACOB
I would never hurt Bella!ALICE
Like the way your pack almost killed her when you attacked me?JACOB
We didn’t know she would do anything so reckless and stupid!
Bella steps in between Alice and Jacob.
BELLA
Hold it! Charlie’s house is neutral country. Understood?
Alice and Jacob back off.
BELLA
(to Jacob) And, I am not reckless and stupid.JACOB
Then what do you call jumping in front of five attacking werewolves?
Before Bella could answer, the telephone rings.
ALICE
(moaning) I’ve been so blind. Blind! I didn’t see any of these!
Bella motions to Jake to answer the phone while she comforts Alice.
BELLA
Alice, you cannot possibly see everything.
Alice and Bella couldn’t help overhearing Jacob’s raised voice.
JACOB
Charlie is at the funeral!
Jacob bangs down the phone. Alice starts to moan incoherently.
BELLA
Alice, what’s wrong?ALICE
It’s Edward.
SEQ . EXT. Swan porch. Alice strides out with light bags. Bella follows hurriedly and trips on the threshold. Jacob, who is waiting on the porch, catches her.
JACOB
Bella.
As Bella looks up, she realizes that Jacob’s dark eyes are glistening with tears.
JACOB
I’m begging, Bella. Don’t go. Don’t.
Bella gently intertwines her fingers with his to remove it from her face.
BELLA
Jake, I have to –JACOB
No, you don’t. You really don’t. You could stay here. With me.BELLA
With you…JACOB
Bella, please. Please stay. Stay alive. For me.
Edward slowly approaches from her back and murmurs in her ear.
EDWARD
Bella, love, I only desire your happiness. With Jacob, you can have a normal life. Having children, a house, growing old together, and watching your grandchildren running around…
Dreamy images of her life together with Jacob flash in her mind’s eye as Edward describes the tranquil scene.
EDWARD
Your beautiful soul will be intact.BELLA
(to Jacob) I’m in shattered pieces.JACOB
I’ll put you back together. Just like a porcelain doll.
Jacob caresses her cheek and lowers his head.
JACOB
True love.BELLA
First kiss.
Jacob gently touches his lips to Bella’s. Edward’s pain is in his eyes.
EDWARD
Stay. And be happy.
Alice materializes from the darkness, her face tormented.
ALICE
Bella? Please. He’s my brother.
Bella moves away from Jacob’s embrace. Edward steps in front of her.
EDWARD
I would rather hurt myself than see you hurt in any way. Your life and your safety will always come first. Stay, Bella.
Bella turns and reaches out to Jacob.
This is page 7 of 7.
To read Part 4 — Romeo Must Not Die, please click here.
To read Part 2 — Shattered Pieces, please click here.
To read Part 1 — Severed Ties, please click here.
Lorna Lopez aka ATwilightKiss’ Notes This script version is my attempt to reconcile the literary world with the more visual medium of film. Just like in the Lord of the Rings, changes will be made to accommodate a driven story line, time constraints, and attention to character development.
Close to Home I wanted to bring the danger to Bella closer to home, which will make for a more riveting story line, while highlighting Edward’s mistaken notion that Bella is safer without him.
With this regard, Victoria’s talent for evasion has been elevated to a Shakespearean Iago level — attaining one’s objectives with a devious instead of a direct hand, thus, her enrollment in Forks High School and the stage related accidents.
I have depended on the Eclipse book for the rules regarding how to evade Alice’s visions, such as, avoidance of physical contact and no decision re harming Bella (which Riley employed when he got the clothes of Bella from her room), and sudden impetuous decisions (like when Bella suddenly decided to run away with Jacob), which, thankfully, worked well for Bella’s accidents, including the cliff scene.
The decision to have Victoria in Forks was also augmented by the fact that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke showed Victoria during the film’s end attending the prom, which, in hindsight, was a bit illogical, since her vampire scent would have stood out among the humans, easily discernible to any of the Cullens, especially Edward, who is so over protective of Bella. That possibility did not exist in this particular script version because all the Cullens were gone.
Laurent I have expanded Laurent’s participation from “[getting] the lay of the land” to a more involved part in distracting the authorities and the pack. I staged Laurent’s death in the forest, instead of the meadow, because I wanted the Jacob and Bella scene to be shot there (see below).
I have also added a maneuver on Victoria’s part by making the pack believe she is out of the picture by hunting in the nearby areas when Laurent was killing in the Forks territory. When she found out that Laurent had been killed by the pack, her return to hunting within Forks was motivated by her anger by the loss of a useful “friend.”
Harry Clearwater’s death from a heart attack has been changed to a vampire attack for obvious dramatic reasons. The change has also given the opportunity to put in a part of the Quileute legends from Eclipse.
Jacob Black vs. Edward Cullen As Stephenie Meyer wrote on her site, “Bella falls in love with Jacob in New Moon.”
This New Moon script shows the remarkable similarities and differences between Jacob and Edward, laying the ground as to why, Bella will, most likely, fall in love with Jacob.
On one hand, Edward like scenes such as the “You’re beautiful” scene where Bella admires Jacob’s skin, the meadow scene where Bella and Jacob’s relationship shifts to a more serious one, and the bedroom scene where Jacob “breaks up” with Bella because of his desire to protect Bella from himself, will contrast with new experiences such as the bike scene and constant laughter when she’s with Jacob.
The Real and Hallucinatory Edward The only scene in Part 3 where it’s the real Edward is the one with Rosalie informing him about Alice’s vision about Bella.
The rules regarding the hallucinatory Edward are: he must appear when there is actual or impending danger to Bella and there must be no actual verbal exchange or physical contact. The times when Edward supposedly saved Bella were actually carried out by herself or other people.
Again, these devices are not meant to succumb to fans’ clamor for more of Robert Pattinson, but, a means to help the audience remember the Bella-Edward relationship, so as to increase the tension when Jacob makes his intentions and feelings clearer.
Romeo and Juliet Since several plot lines of the Shakespearean classic were used in New Moon, I only thought it fitting that it should be chosen as the play to be staged by the English class.
Rosalie Hale The decision to have Rosalie tell Edward despite the knowledge that he would go to the Volturi was based on her actions in Breaking Dawn when she was ready to go toe to toe with her whole family with regards to Renesmee.
And, as Rosalie admitted to Bella in Eclipse Chapter 7 Unhappy Ending, “With the dark curls… the dimples that showed even while he was grimacing in pain… the strange innocence that seemed so out of place on a grown man’s face… he reminded me of Vera’s little Henry. I didn’t want him to die — so much that even though I hated this life, I was selfish enough to ask Carlisle to change him for me.”
Rosalie does care for Edward, but, her priority to keep Emmett alive is much stronger.
Although this script is based on the Twilight saga, it will be faithful to the spirit of the books, but, not necessarily be faithful in every way as to how it’s presented in the books per se.
Thanks to the Lord of the Rings Team Once again, I am thankful to Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, the Lord of the Rings scriptwriting team, for their commentary on the extended DVDs; because, aside from their passion and commitment to being faithful to the books, they were also driven to push the story forward for the film medium.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Great script. Very mind-boggling. I can’t wait to see it ! (: I’m excited. <3
January 11th, 2009 at 5:52 am
AWSOME!!!
but Edward and Bella is not even saying “I love you” ONE time in the first movie!
January 14th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Is there anyway to find out when you add more, I’m really liking this script… =)
January 14th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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And, Nessa and Lisa, thanks for reading the script.
January 17th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Thank you SO much for posting the script for New Moon! Do you know when New Moon is coming out in theaters? Sorry for my bad spelling.:/
January 17th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Hi Eclipse. The New Moon Film US Opening is set on 20 November 2009
Please note this is an UNOFFICIAL script version written by me — Lorna Lopez. This is NOT the Melissa Rosenberg script.
Thanks for reading it!
January 18th, 2009 at 4:31 am
You should wite movie scripts then.. You are an amazing script writer!
January 18th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Wow! Thanks for the vote of confidence!
January 18th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Any time…
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:49 am
You know where I can get the official script for New Moon?
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:20 am
Is this the real script? Or is this just something you created for fun? It is very interesting, and I like it. so i’m hoping this is the real script.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:51 am
Hi Twilighter. Yes, I wrote this for fun. This is an UNOFFICIAL script version written by me — Lorna Lopez. This is NOT the Melissa Rosenberg script.
I’m glad you liked it!
February 25th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Please dont think I copied you but this gave me inspiration to write my own. Xp. It’s not like yours, I swear. And, again, same as you, im doin it for fun.
February 25th, 2009 at 9:49 am
I’m glad you were inspired to write your own New Moon script, Kelsey. Good luck!
March 21st, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I love this script! the only thing that needs to be changed is not implying the age thing. at first people that haven’t read the book won’t know what they’re talking about. Other than that its good. i also love the quotes from the book with jacob!
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:54 am
this is so depressing, jacob edward bella. makes me wanna cry!
but i love it! your good!
=))
March 26th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I like the Romeo and Juliet part but what I don’t like was when Victoria showed up at the cliff. It totally change the real reason why Bella would jump off the cliff. And the scene where Bella woke up and Alice was right there in her house. I still like the one in the book where Jacob was giving her a ride back home and Bella saw the black mercedes at her drive way. I also don’t like the part where Alice told Bella “he’s my brother” I like the original version of that. I think its still better to stick with Stephenie’s story, Bella should be eager to go to Italy to rescue Edward from the Volturri and show like a flash back her moment with Edward when Edward was telling him about losing her that he’ll go to Volturri. I just hope that the movie will not be that different from the book.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:13 am
omg this is amazing i love it please write more.:)
April 8th, 2009 at 1:45 am
i think this is really bad.
its changed so much from new moon! whats the point of changing the storyline, when theres no need? us fans are fans of stephenie meyer’s story, not an entirely different one.
the changes are actually laughable.
i cant believe people say they love this.
TWILIGHT FAN
April 10th, 2009 at 3:06 am
melissa rosenberg’s version wouldnt be THIS good. If you notice in the Twilight movie script, she did alot of changes & barely stayed within the book contexts. The part where Edward say’s “Its twilight..” at prom.. that should have definately been in the movie!
btw, happy 19th bday kristen stewart!!
April 10th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I just want to know who Tori is… I’m sitting here trying to think of who that is and it’s BOTHERING me. Please help? I’ll sit here for an hour putting together context clues if someone doesn’t help me and it’s already 3:30 am. lol.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
HA. just kidding. shoulda kept reading. sorry, idiot observation on my part. ;p
April 10th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Hi Kendall. Tori is the “disguise” name I gave to Victoria, which is a common nickname for someone with that name. She called herself Tori when she enrolled at Forks High School, but, in the cliff scene, she reveals who she really is.
Please remember this is my script version for the visual medium of film to add visual drama. You may find lots of changes that you may disagree with. Thank you for understanding.
P.S. It may help if you read Parts 1 and 2
April 10th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Hahaha sorry, yeah I read 1 and 2 and I caught onto the nickname thing and cover up when i kept reading.. i’m kind of dense. lol. but yeah this is very very good… a little confusing and different with the whole he can summon himself and breathe air into her type thing but other than that it’s very well put together and i like it. personally, i think there were some changes i would have liked to make to her book so straying from the story line wouldnt have been a bad idea for the actual movie at all… like he should have been watching her the entire time he was “gone” or some other things. but yes, that was a tangeant[sp?]
anyways, very good. go into screenwriting. you’re talented at it. (:
April 12th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Did I miss something? I read all 4 books but I can’t remember a scene where they’re in a play as Romeo and Juliet, like the one above? Was that a made up one?
Sorry just a little confused.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Hi Isabel. Since New Moon has so many scenes that are so obviously based on Romeo and Juliet, I used artistic license to meld the two.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Oh LOL…sorry! I thought this was the script that are being used in the actual movie!!!! Sorry!
April 12th, 2009 at 11:09 am
i dont get it! isnt she supposed to be like “jake please dont leave me” and all that jazz????and then she has to guess his secret just so she can stay wit him????and when did they KISS??? sorry if i spoil this part but arent they supossed to make out in the 3rd book??!!!i just dont get it?? help me!!
April 12th, 2009 at 11:24 am
i mean dont get mme wrong twilight i like this “script” and all it just doesnt make sense!!! this will be my 4th time reading new moon,and i know you just wrote it for fun, but i think i like the book a little better!!! i mean i really do love this script it made me cry when he left, but i also cried when jacob said that to her!!!i mean i love that theyre switching up the roles and i ESPECIALLY love that you put the cullens in this more then the book does!!!!!but why is tori in school now i thought she was on a killing rampage with laurent?i just need some help here?i need to know more!!!write to me about the script k?!?!?! thank you
April 12th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Twilight babe, you need to remember that the film medium is a VISUAL one while a book is a literary one. Film scripts must tell the story differently so one cannot expect the details, for example as to when the kiss should be, to be strictly followed. You may want to read my notes again on page 7 so you’ll understand my intentions. Thank you very much.
April 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
im just confused right now!!! i mean i cant wait til this movie comes out!!! im skipping part of my school day just to see the movie at midnight!! and i hope that one of the twilight hotties(talkin bout the guys) will read this and be like whoa, this is really good and use some of your script!!!that would be so cool!!!then i would know the lines!!!but yeah i do understand that it cant be all about the book!!!you have to have new stuff in the movie!! but the girl who actually wrote the script sucks!!in the first movie she left out a good part!!!and then i read this and im astonished!!!you are waaaaayyyy better the her!!! you didnt miss almost one thing!!!i gotta a ?,are you gonna write scripts for eclipse and breaking dawn!!!?????
April 16th, 2009 at 7:58 am
i dont think that this script is very well done. It doesnt follow the book at all. But either way its not the real script, thats for a fact.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:11 am
SOOOOOO GOOD!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
ok so, i love that someone like you is actually out there, and who will spend so much time on something like this to help twilight fans with the addiction. so the first thing i want to say is thank you! now my comments =) i understand that the book is going to have to be modified somewhat because it needs to be visual, but i think it’s possible to keep some scenes more loyal to the book (i.e.- scene with jacob in her bedroom, or when bella supposed to WANT to save edward) Also, i think that the tori idea was definitely creative, but i don’t think it’s necessary- she hunts bella vigorously in the third, so that would be too much. Besideds, the whole tori thing takes away the real reason why bella jumps. it has to be about seeing edward through adrenaline, not victoria-induced. Anyhoo, i could probably write another five pages, and alot of it would be god comments too =) you really do have a talent, twilight. keep up the good work, and thanks again!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Im sorry but this is so not like the book in some ways its better but over all i truely think it could be btter if you made it more like the book.Idk maybe i will have to see it done and put together.I do like the fact you did put edward in most of it that is great but when you change alot of it, it loses the way we would see it in our heads as we read it. I think when edward tells bella goodbye it was great the way stephenie wrote it chaning it just loses the sadness bella has.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:13 am
omgomgomg
he kisses her? what
omgomgomg
my heart just skipped a beat
[team jacobbb]
May 8th, 2009 at 7:59 am
YAY i hope its betta than the 1st one but robert pattinson is still cute LOL
May 10th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Your script is good, but I truly hope this is not how the movie will play out, you have changed so many important parts, that are in the book, which is what inspired the movie to be made… You have forgotten to add certain people, and your all wrong with Seth and Leah…It’s all wrong, I am sorry to be the hateful one here, but I am sure changing so many things will make for a lot of unhappy Twilight Saga fans.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:57 am
I like this alot! One thing I would change is how formal it all sounds… the conversations should flow a bit better like when Jacob says “I discovered last year they were all too true. When I reached manhood, I turned into a werewolf. Werewolves only exist because vampires do.” It sounds like he is a different person than Jake… And Bella’s line “You mean the presence of vampires brings out the wolves in your tribe?” Sounds like she is too informed already… Other than that its fantastic! (sorry if you think im to critcal… i know i never could do this well… just pointers…). Thanks for the entertainment:)-Emily
May 13th, 2009 at 7:04 am
O and was mark a new character or a mistake on mike? or am i just forgetting someone?
May 13th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Thanks for the heads up, Emily Cullen. It’s Mike. Typo error on my part. Edited it. Thanks again!
May 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
ok so now i’m sorta lost. when it says that edwards their, he’s not really, is he? also when it’s talking abot the wolves healing, instead of them saying have like a screenshot showing Sam’s wound healing.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Hi Bobby. When you reach the end of the script, I have notes that will say Edward is not really there but just a figment of Bella’s subconscious. However, the audience will be left guessing if he’s really there or not. The ‘real’ Edward is usually alone or with another Cullen.
And, yes, definitely there will be a screen shot of the wound healing, where to put it exactly is at the discretion of the director and editor.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am
OMG!!!!!!!! This is an ahhh-mayy-zinnnggg script. I’m so happy i found it? Will there be any more postings?
June 7th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Thanks so much, Nessie Cullen! The plan is to write until Breaking Dawn. I don’t exactly when though. Thanks again for reading!
June 11th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
omigaaad!
i love every single part
EXCEPT
the part where bella and [the] d-g KISSS!!!!!!!
ARGH!!!!!!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am
hehe…
June 17th, 2009 at 7:15 am
anyway soo just to let everbody know i dnt like these scripts!!!!”i mean u cant always have it like the book” but that new director is keeping it as close to the book a possible!!!!!i know it cant be the same but at least have some of the stuff!!!!!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:16 am
have a great summer!!!love mrs.cullen black
June 26th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Hi,
Okay, At first i really liked the script and i am still in love with the ending, dont get me wrong. But i really dont like the kissing part between jacob and bella becuse, like many people said, It doesnt happen till somewhere in the middle of the 3rd book. I also am very confused cause outta nowhere there is this Tori chic. Who the Heck? I already knew who it was but it totally changes her original reason for jumping off. Just For Fun. But it is very good with the fact it isnt real and the fact it was for fun. Ask Stephanie meyer, You can find a great cereer ( spellin?)by doing something just for fun.I like the factr that yo used some of the quotes from the book, but i have read the book a countless number of times and some things dont make sense. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the ending. it is soooo sweet. I am a Hopless romantic, and it is jus so sweet. I almost started crying happy tears. but what it boils down to is great job, just very confusing, and i ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the ENDING. JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! Masterpeice.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:12 am
I dont think she would break the cd in half or rip the photos because she really misses him
August 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Can somebody tell me where Edward is?
October 12th, 2009 at 3:05 am
So fake but goodbut fake
January 8th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
The Twilight film is the nonpareil! The continuous battle amongst the vampires and werewolves makes it baffling to figure which faction to rise to. I’ve gathered all about the quileute legends. Twilight kindles excitement within me with these distorted tales.