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On nan heels of her lauded directorial debut, Kristen Stewart indicated she could beryllium swayed to revisit nan beloved vampiric franchise that catapulted her into nan precocious echelons of teen stardom.
While stepping nan carpet astatine nan Palm Springs Film Festival, The Chronology of Water helmer was asked by Entertainment Tonight if she’d ever consciousness inclined to revisit 1 of her past projects from down nan camera lens, for illustration Twilight.
Stewart, whose kid acting profession entered a caller stratosphere aft nan merchandise of nan 2008 movie based connected nan celebrated Stephenie Meyer caller series, praised each filmmaker’s respective movies (in order: Catherine Hardwicke’s original, Chris Weitz’s New Moon, David Slade’s Eclipse and Bill Condon, who tackled nan two-part Breaking Dawn installments).
“I emotion what each of nan board did pinch nan movies,” nan Oscar nominee said, “but they were truthful themselves and weird and benignant of squirrelly and conscionable truthful coming successful that clip erstwhile they didn’t really cognize what they were yet, earlier they blew up.”
She continued, ideating and later convinced: “I know; ideate if we had a immense fund and a bunch of emotion and support, I don’t know. I would emotion to readapt—yeah, sure, I’ll do nan remake. I’m doing it, I’m committed.”
Certainly, location would beryllium an appetite for nan redux: Fathom Entertainment’s re-release of Summit/Lionsgate‘s Twilight — a movie marathon reissue tied to nan first book’s 20th day — posted $1.55 cardinal astatine nan container office successful its first time astir Halloween. An established yearly rewatch staple, YouTube besides streamed nan movies for free connected its platform successful nan leadup to nan theatrical re-release. Broadly speaking, nan entirety of nan big-screen franchise is among nan astir financially successful YA properties, grossing northbound of $3.3 cardinal astatine nan world container office.
In 2024, it was announced Netflix had fixed a straight-to-series order to a Twilight animated bid based on Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 companion novel Midnight Sun, a retelling of the story’s events from nan position of vampire Edward Cullen (portrayed by Robert Pattinson successful nan films).
