With a deliberate Harry Potter TV sequence in improvement and a Starvation Video games prequel out this fall, it’s no shock that fellow mid-to-late 2000s YA juggernaut Twilight is additionally reportedly getting back from the lifeless.
Sources inform The Hollywood Reporter that, greater than a decade after the franchise’s last movie (2012’s Breaking Daybreak—Half 2), the vampire saga could also be tailored as soon as extra, this time as a TV present. Simply as controversial creator J.Okay. Rowling is concerned within the Harry Potter sequence, Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer will reportedly assist shepherd her lions and lambs onto the small display screen.
There isn’t a dwelling or launch date for the mission, not to mention a transparent coherent course simply but. Sinead Daly, whose credit embrace Inform Me Lies, The Strolling Useless: World Past, and The Get Down, is connected to jot down the script, though sources inform THR that it’s unclear whether or not her imaginative and prescient might be a remake or a spin-off. Reps for Lionsgate Tv declined to remark to the outlet.
Discuss of increasing the unique five-film franchise, which grossed greater than $3.4 billion worldwide, has by no means absolutely evaporated because of an ever fervent fanbase and the media Twilight has impressed; always remember that the Fifty Shades trilogy was based mostly on Twilight fan fiction. Catherine Hardwicke, director of the unique 2008 movie, even riffed on remake ideas throughout a current interview with IndieWire, considerably facetiously pitching sequels set in area or the Wild West.
Talking with Vainness Truthful in 2018, Hardwicke famous that, throughout 4 further Twilight films, 4 Starvation Video games, and three Divergent movies, “none of them had been directed by girls!” The filmmaker continued, “That was a heartbreak for me. There are different badass girls on the market that might have accomplished these.”
Maybe, then, the one purpose to do a Twilight sequence (apart from, you already know, cash) can be to offer the chance for ladies or individuals of coloration to retell this romance between two outsiders. In any other case, although, it’s tough to deem this a superb day to be a Twihard.
If the powers that be decide to enhance upon the oft mocked films, which propelled Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson to superstardom and—finally—business legitimacy, then they may zap the Twilight franchise of its rewatchable sparkle. These films endure, largely, as a result of they’re so enjoyably ridiculous: Assume Taylor Lautner’s indelible supply of “Bella, the place the hell have you ever been, loca?” Or Bella and Edward spider-monkeying from one tree to the subsequent in opposition to an ultraviolet backdrop. Or that all-vampire baseball scene set to Muse’s “Supermassive Black Gap.” These campy morsels dwell on in popular culture infamy; a “good” model of Twilight, no matter meaning, would completely miss the purpose.
And, if the sequence doesn’t suck the pulpy enjoyable out of the unique, à la HBO Max’s now deceased Gossip Woman reboot? Even in that case, viewers might as properly simply rewatch the unique movies, as they’ve been recognized to do—again and again. Simply as Edward faces no good choices in his selection between turning Bella into an immortal or shedding her endlessly, one fears that unearthing a Twilight TV present might be equally lose-lose.