Netflix Announces New Animated Series Based on Twilight Characters

A brand new Twilight movie adaptation is coming to Netflix.

On Wednesday afternoon, the streaming giant confirmed that it has acquired the rights to Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 novel Midnight Sun, which retells the events of the first Twilight book from the perspective of character Edward Cullen.

While the original books were adapted into five films, which launched Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart as two major Hollywood stars, Netflix has announced that Midnight Sun will instead take the form of a TV series.

And even more intriguing: it’s going to be an animated series.

Stephenie Meyer may be producing Midnight Sun, but the script and co-production is in the hands of Sinead Daly. She has also previously appeared in the Walking Dead spin-off World Beyond, the American drama Tell Me Lies and the short-lived Netflix series The Get Down from Baz Luhrmann.

No further information has been released about the new Twilight film, though the original film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, recently named the two young actors who would play Bella and Edward if she were to cast the film in a modern-day movie.

The original Twilight came out in 2008 and starred Robert and Bella as vampire Edward Cullen and high school student Bella Swan, who soon become embroiled in a passionate, forbidden romance.

Taylor Lautner also played Edward’s love rival Jacob, with Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, Michael Sheen and Lee Pace in supporting roles.

The franchise became immensely popular and developed a loyal fan base of ‘Twi-hards’, spawning four more sequels.

It was previously reported Last year, Lionsgate was in the works for a Twilight TV series, which was believed to be inspired by the original Stephenie Meyer books.