With the Twilight movie release fast approving, Summit Entertainment has announced that they’ve acquired the rights to the sequels to author Stephenie Meyer‘s Twilight novel.

The studio has already hired Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg to script New Moon (Book 2) and Eclipse (Book 2). The fourth book in The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, does not have a screenwriter at this time.

When writing the first screenplay, Rosenberg reportedly chose not to read the Twilight sequels so that it wouldn’t influence the natural development of the characters.

Twilight, starring Kristen Stewart as a teenager who falls in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson) is due out in theaters on November 21, 2008.

[Source: THR]