‘Twilight’ Series Gets Updated
The previously revealed ‘Twilight Saga’ series is being developed as an animated project.
It’s been more than a decade since the last Twilight film premiered in theaters, and now the franchise is poised to return. Deadline reports that the TV division for Lionsgate — the franchise’s producing studio — is shopping around a new Twilight animated series. The outlet notes that this is the same series that was first reported on in 2023.
Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns revealed the plans during a Q&A at the Morgan Stanley media conference. “We’re going to go out with the Twilight series, an animated series, I think there’ll be a lot of interest in that,” he said, then went on to note that the company is also working on a new series set in the John Wick universe.
The Twilight Saga film franchise debuted in 2008 with Twilight, based on author Stephenie Meyer’s book of the same name. The movie spawned three sequels: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012).
The franchise made A-list stars out of Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson, with the Edward Cullen actor sharing his true feelings about the film franchise, back in 2017. Pattison was asked about how he looks back on his time in the Twilight series, and he replied by saying that he had an “amazing” experience. “It’s all fond memories,” Pattinson told E! News about shooting the films.
“I mean it’s almost fonder the further away you get from it,” he continued, “It’s just such a magical way to spend your 20s.” Pattinson added, “I mean it’s completely crazy. I still haven’t really processed it. I mean I always thought that there’d be more of a fallout — a psychological fallout years later.”
Kristen Stewart gained popularity with the Twilight movie in 2008, even though she appeared in several projects before that. The actress played Bella Swan in a romantic fantasy film starring Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen. The rest of the cast includes Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, and Taylor Lautner. The Twilight Saga film series is based on Melissa Rosenberg’s novel of the same name.
It has been more than ten years since the first Twilight movie was released and discussed about it don’t stop. People have a lot to say about these movies, but as Robert Pattinson once said, hating on them is not cool anymore. The Twilight movies became a topic of discussion for a lot of reasons, mainly due to the intimate scenes between Bella and Edward.
Kristen Stewart On The “Agony” Of Filming Intimate Scenes
In the past, in an interview, Kristen Stewart opened up about how agonizing it was to shoot these intimate scenes. About filming the intimate scene for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1, the actress told Harper’s Bazaar UK in 2015, “It had to be transcendent and otherworldly, inhuman, better sex than you can possibly ever imagine, and we were like, ‘How do we live up to that? It was agony. Which sucks, because I wanted it to be so good.”
Kristen Stewart added that she isn’t against shooting such scenes but hates the contrived ones. She adds, “That’s when it’s grotesquely uncomfortable.” In the same interview, Kristen talked about the sexism in the Hollywood industry. The Twilight actress said that women must work a little harder to be heard, as Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. She said that the sexism is so offensive, that it’s crazy.
Currently, Kristen Stewart caught everyone’s attention with her bold magazine photoshoot. On the work front, her film Love Lies Bleeding has created a buzz. The movie, which was released in the US on March 8, has several explicit scenes. Rose Glass directed the romantic thriller, which also stars Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, and Jena Malone. The actress will be next seen in a post-apocalyptic romantic film called Love Me, which also stars Steven Yeun. The actress is also part of Michael Angarano’s comedy road trip film, Sacramento. The film also stars Michael, Michael Cera, Maya Erskine, AJ Mendez and Rosalind Chao.
