‘Twilight’ Is Getting Rebooted as a TV Series, Because Nothing Ever Really Dies
Not to be outdone by the impending Harry Potter TV series, the Twilight craze, too, is raging on.
According to Variety, a televised adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly popular vampire book series is in the very early stages of development at Lionsgate TV, to the point where it doesn’t have a network or even a writer yet. But the notion of a TV series tackling the books—which have already been adapted into a juggernaut five-film franchise that grossed $3.3 billion worldwide and launched the careers of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson—could potentially be paradigm-shifting (not to be hyperbolic or anything).
The Twilight saga, if you were living under a rock for the duration of the mid-aughts, tells the story of Bella Swan (Stewart), an unassuming teenager who falls for Edward Cullen (Pattinson), a much older vampire (104, to be exact) who is permanently frozen in the body of a 17-year-old.