Kristen Stewart Desires To Direct Twilight Reboot with “Large Funds”

One of many stars of Twilight desires to assist remake the massively fashionable vampire movie franchise. After writer Stephenie Meyer revealed the ebook sequence, Summit Leisure tailored the story for the large display screen, with Kristen Stewart solid as protagonist Bella Swan and Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen.

It has been greater than 13 years for the reason that ultimate film, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Daybreak Half 2, was launched in theaters, and Stewart admitted to ET that she is inquisitive about serving to reboot Twilight now that she’s directed her first full-length movie, The Chronology of Water.

On the Palm Springs Worldwide Movie Competition Artistic Impression Awards, Stewart imagined what it will be prefer to remake Twilight however with a “enormous price range” and a “bunch of affection and help.” The actress-turned-director then bought extra assured concerning the concept and exclaimed, “Certain, I am going to do the remake. I am doing it! I am dedicated!“

“Think about if we had an enormous price range and a bunch of affection and help. I don’t know…I might like to readapt. Yeah, certain, I’ll do the remake. I’m doing it! I’m dedicated!”

Stewart does not need to take away from the contributions of authentic administrators Catherine Hardwicke, Chris Weitz, David Slade and Invoice Condon as a result of she loves what they dropped at the sequence.

“They have been so themselves and peculiar and type of squirrelly,” she mentioned, including that each director was “current” and dedicated to bringing Twilight to life, though “they did not actually know what they have been but, earlier than they blew up.“

“I like what Catherine [Hardwicke] did, I like what Chris [Weitz] did, I like what the entire administrators did with the flicks. They have been so themselves and peculiar and type of like, squirrelly, and simply so current in that point once they didn’t actually know what they have been but, like earlier than they blew up.”

Regardless that she had starred in different films like Panic Room and Communicate, it was Twilight that catapulted her profession to new heights.

Throughout 5 Twilight Saga films that have been launched from 2008 to 2012, the vampire franchise grossed greater than $3.3 billion on the field workplace. Critics weren’t as receptive as followers have been, with the movies’ Rotten Tomatoes scores starting from 26% to 49%.

Stewart went on to star in films like The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, Charlie’s Angels and Spencer (which earned her an Oscar nomination). She’s additionally a director now. After directing music movies and shorts, she helmed the full-length movie The Chronology of Water in 2025.

Twilight additionally featured breakout roles for different solid members, together with Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Anna Kendrick.

As diehard followers know, the Twilight franchise is not over but. In 2020, Meyer revealed Midnight Solar, which reimagined the primary ebook from Edward’s perspective. This was a venture within the works for a few years, which included a scandal when a number of chapters from the manuscript leaked.

4 years later, Netlix introduced that it will be adapting Midnight Solar as an animated TV present, with Sinead Daly, Meyer, Meghan Hibbett, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Erik Feig, Samie Kim Falvey and Emily Wissink as government producers, and Daly as the author.

It is unclear how far alongside within the manufacturing course of the present is at proper now, nevertheless it’s doable Stewart might direct an episode if she have been that inquisitive about diving again into the vampire story.

Contemplating the TV present will depict a model of the primary Twilight ebook, a live-action reboot would battle with the present adaptation plans. If the Midnight Solar sequence proves profitable, then the opposite books may get tailored too. In spite of everything, Meyer has indicated she plans to put in writing sequels, which might give Lionsgate Tv the blueprint to proceed the TV present.

Whereas it does not look like the Twilight films will get remade for the large display screen anytime quickly, not less than the studio is aware of that Stewart desires to signal on because the director ought to the chance come up years from now.