who did stephenie meyer play in twilight?
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
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 Guest stars in " Twilight " included Graham in his recurring role as Ambassador Soval , who appeared in two scenes . Brett Rickaby made a guest appearance as Yedrin Ross . Rickaby had previously appeared in the television series Carnivàle . Richard Anthony Crenna was also credited in this episode as a security guard on board the Enterprise . " Twilight " contained references to the Star Trek : The Original Series episode " Space Seed " and the associated film Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan . These references included the humans settling on Ceti Alpha V , the planet that Khan Noonien Singh and his followers were exiled to in " Space Seed " and escaped from in Wrath of Khan . Reference is also made to the Mutara Nebula , where the climactic battle occurred between Captain James T. Kirk and Khan . 

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 A screenplay for Twilight was written by Melissa Rosenberg and has been adapted into a film by Summit Entertainment . The film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke , with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the leading roles of Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen , respectively . The movie was released in the United States on November 21 , 2008 . Twilight : The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion , written by Mark Cotta Vaz , was released October 28 . 

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 Trevor Munson conceived the character of Mick Angel in 2004 and spent two and a half years writing a novel featuring the character . The story was adapted into a feature film script , and Bruce Willis was considered as a possibility for the lead role . The script was shown to Nina Tassler at CBS , who paired Munson with Ron Koslow , creator of Beauty and the Beast , to rewrite the script as a television series . The series was titled Twilight , and Koslow and Munson wrote the pilot , which Warner Bros. Television initially commissioned as a presentation lasting 14 – 20 minutes in January 2007 . Joel Silver and Gerard Bocaccio were hired to be executive producers on the project under the former 's production banner , Silver Pictures , in the same month . Alex O 'Loughlin and Shannon Lucio were cast in the presentation , and Rod Holcomb was hired as director . 

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 Stephenie Meyer 's paranormal romance novel Twilight was originally optioned by Paramount Pictures ' MTV Films in April 2004 , but the screenplay that was subsequently developed was substantially different from its source material . When Summit Entertainment reinvented itself as a full @-@ service studio in April 2007 , it began development of a film adaptation anew , having picked up the rights from Paramount ( who coincidentally had made an unrelated film with the same title in 1998 ) in a turnaround . The company perceived the film as an opportunity to launch a franchise based on the success of Meyer 's book and its sequels . Catherine Hardwicke was hired to direct the film and Melissa Rosenberg was hired to write the script in mid @-@ 2007 . 

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 The series , originally titled Twilight , was commissioned by Warner Bros. Television as a presentation lasting 14 – 20 minutes . Alex O 'Loughlin , Shannon Lucio , Rade Šerbedžija and Amber Valletta were cast in the lead roles , and Rod Holcomb was hired as director . The project was renamed Moonlight when picked up by CBS for the 2007 – 2008 American television season . David Greenwalt joined the staff in May 2007 as showrunner and executive producer alongside Joel Silver ; however , health reasons forced Greenwalt to leave the series . All of the original actors save for the male lead role were recast in June 2007 , and Sophia Myles , Jason Dohring and Shannyn Sossamon replaced them . With an almost entirely different cast , a retooled , full @-@ length pilot for television audiences was re @-@ shot . 
