Attention Twilight fans: the sexy vampiric world created by author Stephenie Meyer will once again grace the screen in a new adaption.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has greenlit a straight-to-series animated adaptation of Meyer’s novel, Midnight Sun. The story covers the same events found in the Twilight Saga, but is told from the point of view of Edward Cullen, aka the vampire played by Robert Pattinson in the five films that were released from 2008 to 2012. (In the original books, the point of view was from Bella, played in the films by Kristen Stewart.)
The production comes from Lionsgate Television; Lionsgate’s film branch also produced four of the Twilight films. Sinead Daly (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Raised By Wolves, Tell Me Lies) will pen the adaptation and executive produce.
The project is still in its early days, though the fact it got a straight-to-series order ups the odds that we’ll eventually see it on Netflix. It’s not clear yet if Pattinson, Stewart, or the rest of the live-action cast—including Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, and Jackson Rathbone—will reprise their roles. My guess is that’s unlikely for at least the two leads, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
While we wait for the animated series, we can experience the drama unfold by (re)watching the five films, four of which are currently streaming on Netflix, and all of which are available on Starz.
