An Animated Twilight Series From Edward’s Perspective Is Coming to Netflix

Deadline reports Netflix has fixed a straight-to-series bid for a Twilight animated bid based connected Stephenie Meyer’s 2020 novel Midnight Sun. Just similar the publication it’s based on, the caller bid plans to retell the events of Meyer’s archetypal caller from the position of the 100-year aged vampire, Edward Cullen, alternatively of teen Bella Swan. Sinead Daly (Tell Me Lies) has been hired to enforcement nutrient and constitute the bid for the streamer and Lionsgate Television.

Selling implicit a cardinal copies successful its archetypal week of publication, Midnight Sun was mostly panned by critics upon merchandise for its monolithic 750+ leafage magnitude and Edward’s unusual prose. As the outlet notes, Meyers shared chapters from a overmuch earlier draught of her caller with histrion Robert Pattinson during the filming of the archetypal Twilight to amended pass his performance.

For anyone who recovered Edward’s quality and motivations impenetrable before, it’s a fascinating, yet inactive often unhelpful read. Written successful the archetypal person, Edward describes however his intrusive, vampiric instincts origin him to suffer power with flowery, inappropriate-for-the-moment language. It’s benignant of similar an 800-page mentation of that gag successful Ghostbusters wherever Egon states “he’s terrified beyond the capableness for rational thought.” For fans, there’s surely capable worldly for an full play of television. For an close adaptation of the novel, the communicative volition person to beryllium told successful glacial increments, similar those Dragonball Z arcs wherever characters walk aggregate episodes simply steeling themselves earlier they bash thing to Frieza.

Unfortunately, that’s each we cognize astir the task truthful far—we don’t cognize how it volition beryllium animated, oregon successful what benignant we’ll spot Alice, Jacob, Jasper, and the remainder of the characters rendered. Traditional 2D, anime-inspired, CG, cel-shaded, stop-motion? At this point, your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic ours.

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