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With 'twilight,' You Have These Massive Tomes That You Have To Condense. With 'penoza,' We Had An Eight Episode Dutch Series That, Just For The Pilot Alone, I Condensed Three Episodes. So, There's A Lot Of Filling In And A Ton Of Invention That Has To Happen To Fill Out Eight Episodes.

-Melissa Rosenberg

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With 'twilight,' You Have These Massive Tomes

Melissa Rosenberg

With 'twilight,' You Have These Massive Tomes That You Have To Condense. With 'penoza,' We Had An Eight Episode Dutch Series That, Just For The Pilot Alone, I Condensed Three Episodes. So, There's A Lot Of Filling In And A Ton Of Invention That Has To Happen To Fill Out Eight Episodes.

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