“Twilight” gets animated with new “Midnight Sun” TV series on Netflix

The forthcoming TV show will retell the events of the original "Twilight" from Edward Cullen's perspective.

You better hold on tight, spider monkey.

An animated adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight spinoff Midnight Sun is officially in development at Netflix, Entertainment Weekly can confirm. The series will adapt the author's 2020 novel of the same name, which retells the events of the original Twilight from the perspective of vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen.

The book is being adapted by Sinead Daly, a producer on The Walking Dead: World Beyond and Hulu's Tell Me Lies, who previously wrote for The Get Down and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Meyer will be among the series' executive producers via her production company Fickle Fish Films. There's no word yet on the talent who may lend their voices to the project, though it'd be fairly surprising if either Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson returned for the series, as they've spent the last decade carefully distancing themselves from the vampire films.

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The five Twilight Saga films collectively made over $3 billion at the global box office, but there has not been a screen adaptation of the series since 2012's Breaking Dawn Part 2. Last year, EW reported that Lionsgate Television, Meyer, and Daly were in the early stages of developing a Twilight TV show; however, it was unknown which of Meyer's books would be adapted for the series.

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The Midnight Sun novel hit shelves 15 years after Twilight's first publication in 2005. The author had written some of the manuscript as early as 2008, but put her plans for the project on hold after one of her drafts leaked online. The book ultimately sold over a million copies in its first week of sales in North America, demonstrating that there's still an appetite (er, thirst?) for the bloodsucking series among readers.

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EW's review of Midnight Sun was not particularly enthusiastic about Meyer's return to the Twilight universe. "The degree to which Edward mentally tortures himself for potentially endangering his beloved is nothing compared to the punishment he inflicts on a reader," the D- review says. "It's hard to take his perpetual anguish over their future very seriously when we know… exactly what ending this story will come to. It is staggeringly boring to read him go through the same spiral of desire/shame/self-doubt/weak resolve every single time he and Bella so much as make eye contact across the parking lot. He's convinced that he's the worst thing that could ever happen to her, and after spending this much time in his brain, it's impossible not to agree with him."

Perhaps the animated adaptation will find room to improve the source material.

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