“We only drink animal blood, but it’s your scent. It’s like a drug to me. It’s like you’re my own personal brand of heroin.”
Twilight fans can look forward to revisiting some of that masterful prose, as more than a decade after the final film in the franchise, Breaking Dawn Part II, hit theaters, the YA fantasy horror tale is the latest property to get the small-screen reboot treatment.
We'd heard whispers that a new Twilight show might be in the works last year, and THR has now confirmed that a series based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling novels is officially in-development for Lionsgate Television.
The project is said to be in its infancy, and doesn't have a network/platform yet, but a writer has been enlisted. Sinead Daly, whose credits include Tell Me Lies, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Raised by Wolves, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Get Down, has been hired to pen the script
Meyer is expected to be involved in the television adaptation in some capacity. Wyck Godfrey and former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-president Erik Feig are both on board as executive producers.
The movies, which starred Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, were generally seen as faithful adaptations by the fanbase, and made serious bank at the box office despite mostly negative reviews.
Just in case you're unfamiliar with the story, it focuses on a high-schooler named Bella Swan who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to the town of Forks, Washington, where she falls in love with a 100-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. Conflict emerges when Jacob Black, a member of a rival family of werewolves, develops feelings for Bella, and she's forced to choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romantic relationship with Edward.