Though he was a little disappointed by Breaking Dawn, the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, James Franco still lobbied for a role in the film adaptation, hoping to film it concurrently with a Twilight-related performance piece. Sadly, his request was rejected by director Bill Condon. “For a moment it was like, what could James Franco play that doesn’t feel like ‘Where’s Waldo?’†Condon told MTV. “I really thought about it for a second, and nothing made sense … Frankly, if I had called and said ‘Do you want to play that vampire from that country,’ it would have involved hanging around for two months in a scene with 80 people, and I don’t know if he really would have wanted to do it.†Except that sounds like exactly the sort of perverse thing that would convince Franco to do it. What could have been! [MTV via Movieline]