While Shakespeare remains one of the most influential writers in existence, creators have been altering, parodying, retelling, and subverting his stories for centuries now. Alternatively, New Moon could have followed the lead of Paramount’s canceled Twilight adaption and killed off Bella’s father Charlie since, while Juliet’s father does not die in Shakespeare’s play, he is one of the most consequential characters to get between the young star-crossed lovers and ensure they never end up happy ever after. For the two stories to be similar, Edward would need to kill a character like Jacob Black or another one of the werewolves, and Bella would need to be one of the werewolves herself instead of just a close friend of theirs. The fact that Edward attempts suicide via a vampire authority instead of accidentally killing a Tybalt stand-in means that the plot diverges a lot from the play it was supposedly inspired by. However, this newly happy ending is not the only detail that Meyers changes from Romeo & Juliet’s ending. Thanks to a classic Twilight plot hole courtesy of Alice Cullen, Bella manages to intervene in time, unlike Shakespeare’s tragic heroine. Since there were two more stories to film after New Moon, the second Twilight movie ends with neither lover dead instead of both. With Bella and Edward back only a year later for the next Twilight installment, the still-underrated Eclipse, this led viewers to the inevitable question of exactly what Meyer’s story did borrow from Shakespeare, and where exactly the comparisons end? However, that tale famously ended with both its eponymous hero and heroine dead due to a tragic misunderstanding, while Meyer’s Twilight series did not kill off either of its central characters in New Moon. According to Stephenie Meyer, the second Twilight novel (and subsequent movie) New Moon was based on Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo & Juliet. However, not all of the fault lay with the filmmakers here. Related: How New Moon Became The Weakest Twilight Movie For another, the uneven tone of the story made New Moon both too dark and too broadly humorous at different points in the story. For one thing, original Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was not rehired for the sequel, and the follow-up film lacked her deft ability to ground the more absurd story elements with a stylized, moody tone. The reasons for New Moon’s comparative critical failure are numerous.
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