Ok Team Edward, it’s time to get excited because sparkly vampires are making a comeback, this time to Netflix!
The streamer has announced they’re adapting Stephanie Meyer’s 202 novel which takes place during the events of her novel Twilight and focuses on Edward Cullen, the vampire played by Robert Pattinson in the live-action movies, although it seems unlikely this is a companion to that trilogy of four movies.
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As per Netflix: Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 companion novel to her best-selling book series Twilight, is set to be adapted into a forthcoming animated series, which is currently in development. A retelling of the first entry in the Twilight story, Midnight Sun unfolds entirely from the perspective of Edward Cullen, the captivating, and yes, extremely sparkly vampire who catches a young Bella Swan’s attention.
The Twilight series, of course, spawned a multi-billion film franchise starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as the central couple of the title film and continuing with the four others in the saga — New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn Part 1, and Breaking Dawn Part 2.
Meyer will serve as executive producer of Midnight Sun with her Fickle Fish Films partner Meghan Hibbett, alongside Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen for Temple Hill Entertainment, and Erik Feig and Samie Kim Falvey for Picturestart. Sinead Daly (Tell Me Lies, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Raised by Wolves, and The Get Down) will also executive produce and write the series.
The Twilight saga was a massive movie franchise and it’s not hard to see why Netflix wants a slice of that pie but I’m wondering if, all these years later, this will be a hit without Pattinson and Kristen Stewart’s inclusion.
Thoughts?
Midnight Sun, an animated series adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel and the retelling of Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective, is officially in development. pic.twitter.com/iSzk3l7dnp
— Netflix (@netflix) September 4, 2024
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