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Midnight Sun: Twilight Animated Adaptation Gets Netflix Series Order

Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer’s retelling of "Twilight" from Edward's perspective, received a direct-to-animated series order from Netflix.

We first learned in April 2023 that Lionsgate was looking to bring Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight" novels to series in some manner – with word coming earlier this year that the project would be an animated series. Well, good news! Earlier today, Netflix announced a straight-to-series order for an animated adaptation of 2020's Midnight Sun – a retelling of the first novel in the series, told from the perspective of vampire Edward Cullen, this time – not Bella Swan. Sinead Daly (Tell Me Lies, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, Raised by Wolves) will write for and serve as an executive director. Meyer will serve as an executive producer on the series alongside Meghan Hibbett for Fickle Fish Films. Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will executive produce for Temple Hill Entertainment (the original producer of the "Twilight" films. Erik Feig and Samie Kim Falvey will executive produce for Picturestart, with Emily Wissink of Picturestart overseeing the show for the company and Lionsgate TV set as the producing.

Back in March, during a Q&A session at the Morgan Stanley media conference, Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns first announced the intention to go animated with the project. "We're going to go out with the Twilight series, an animated series; I think there'll be a lot of interest in that," Burns shared. As fans know, Meyer's original series consisted of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn — along with Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined in 2015 (gender-swapping the two main characters, Bella and Edward) and then Midnight Sun five years later. On the film side of things, "The Twilight Saga" saw the five-film series (released between 2008 and 2012) pull in over $3 billion at the global box office in total over their run – with Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and more starting or restarting their careers based on the films' success.

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