An animated show based on the Twilight Repeat Midnight Sun is at work. Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 novel reinterprets the events of the first book in the iconic romance series from the perspective of the vampire Edward Cullen rather than the original protagonist Bella Swan. Although the manuscript on which the Twilight The TV series will be based on his written early enough to be used to help Robert Pattinson prepare to play Edward in the 2008 Twilight movie, the first twelve chapters were leaked online, causing Meyer to stop writing the book for some time, delaying its publication.
Per TermNetflix has announced that the Midnight Sun animated series, which has been in development at Lionsgate Television for nearly two years, Netflix was given a straight-to-series order. Sinead Daly will write in addition to executive producing. Dolly is best known for being a writer on Tell me read, The Walking Dead: World BeyondAnd Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
Other executive producers on the project are Stephenie Meyer, Meghan Hibbett, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Erik Feig and Samie Kim Falvey. This will be the first screen installment in the franchise since the movie The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 Premiere in 2012.
What Midnight Sun means for the Twilight franchise
The Twilight animated show will chart a course for the future
After the four original novels were adapted into five movies between 2008 and 2012, The franchise is essentially dormant. Although Meyer returned to health with retellings including the gender-swapped novel 2015 Life and death And Midnight SunShe has not released any further sequels or spinoffs beyond the 2010 novella The Brief Second Life of Bree Tanner which introduces new material into the canon. The same is true of the onscreen canon of the Twilight Movies.
The creative decisions behind Midnight Sun could ultimately shape what the future of the onscreen franchise will look like. It seems unlikely that the whole Twilight The Castle could be assembled to reprise their roles, considering the fact that Pattinson in particular has publicly grappled with his complicated relationship with playing the iconic leading man in the franchise, including telling. Variety That he “Stopped progressing mentally around the time I started doing the movies“In 2018.
Even without a full original cast, if the characters are still modeled after the original actors, it will keep the new show in the canon of the movies. However, a complete redesign could act as a reboot, pushing the franchise in a new direction on screen and Leave the door open for future reinterpretations of live-action.
Our take on Midnight Sun
It might be time for more Twilight
Given the fact that the Twilight Box office earned more than $3 billion between all five films, making it the 19th highest-grossing movie franchise in history at the time of writing, the time seems ripe for Midnight Sun. Now that Edward and Bella have been off screens for more than a decade, an animated retelling of their story could provide a fresh perspective that gives a shot in the arm to the popular long-running romance series.
Source: term & Variety