You better hold on tight, spider monkeys, because a new take on Twilight is coming to the small screen - and despite pervious reports indicating that it would be a live-action show, it's now come to light that it's going to be animated.
More than a decade after the final film in the franchise, Breaking Dawn Part II, hit theaters, the YA fantasy horror/romance tale is the latest property to get the TV reboot treatment. We got confirmation that a series based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling series of horror/romance novels was officially in-development for Lionsgate Television last year.
Michael Burns, vice chairman of Lionsgate, has now shared the news that the show will actually be animated during a Q&A at the Morgan Stanley media conference on Tuesday.
“We’re going to go out with the Twilight series, an animated series, I think there’ll be a lot of interest in that.”
Burns also revealed that Lionsgate is expanding the John Wick franchise with a new series, saying, “I think we’ll take one of our great action franchises starring Keanu Reeves, I think it’ll be a television series.”
The Twilight project doesn't have a network/platform yet, but a writer has been enlisted. Sinead Daly, whose credits include Tell Me Lies, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Raised by Wolves, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Get Down, was hired to pen the script back in 2023.
Meyer is expected to be involved in the television adaptation in some capacity. Wyck Godfrey and former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig are both on board as executive producers.
The movies, which starred Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, were generally seen as faithful adaptations by the fanbase, and made serious bank at the box office despite mostly negative reviews, grossing more than $3.4B globally and launched the careers of its three stars.
Just in case you're unfamiliar with the story, it focuses on a high-schooler named Bella Swan who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to the town of Forks, Washington, where she falls in love with a 100-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. Conflict emerges when Jacob Black, a member of a rival family of werewolves, develops feelings for Bella, and she's forced to choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romantic relationship with Edward.
What do you guys make of this news? Any Fanpires looking forward to a new take on the novels out there? Drop us a comment down below.