On the heels of her lauded directorial debut, Kristen Stewart indicated she could be swayed to revisit the beloved vampiric franchise that catapulted her into the upper echelons of teen stardom.
While walking the carpet at the Palm Springs Film Festival, The Chronology of Water helmer was asked by Entertainment Tonight if she’d ever feel inclined to revisit one of her past projects from behind the camera lens, like Twilight.
Stewart, whose child acting career entered a new stratosphere after the release of the 2008 film based on the popular Stephenie Meyer novel 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 the two-part Breaking Dawn installments).
“I love what all of the directors did with the movies,” the Oscar nominee said, “but they were so themselves and weird and kind of squirrelly and just so present in that time when they didn’t really know what they were yet, before they blew up.”
She continued, ideating and later convinced: “I know; imagine if we had a huge budget and a bunch of love and support, I don’t know. I would love to readapt—yeah, sure, I’ll do the remake. I’m doing it, I’m committed.”
Certainly, there would be an appetite for the redux: Fathom Entertainment’s re-release of Summit/Lionsgate‘s Twilight — a movie marathon reissue tied to the first book’s 20th anniversary — posted $1.55 million at the box office in its first day around Halloween. An established annual rewatch staple, YouTube also streamed the movies for free on its platform in the leadup to the theatrical re-release. Broadly speaking, the entirety of the big-screen franchise is among the most financially successful YA properties, grossing north of $3.3 billion at the global box office.
In 2024, it was announced Netflix had given a straight-to-series order to a Twilight animated series based on Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 companion novel Midnight Sun, a retelling of the story’s events from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen (portrayed by Robert Pattinson in the films).
