In 2008, the whole world was at Twilight’s feet. And more specifically, at Robert Pattinson’s teeth and Kristen Stewart’s pale face, who thus kicked off a saga that still comes back to bite us from time to time. Now joining the books Stephenie Meyer puts out every so often trying to reignite the fandom and the constant rumors of a remake or a sequel is something nobody saw coming: Netflix‘s animated series.
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So Pattinson and Stewart don’t want to go back to the roles that made them famous and typecast them for a decade? No problem, because their animated counterparts won’t complain as much. In this case, Netflix has cast Julian Grey (Fear The Walking Dead) and Sadie Stanley (Karate Kid: Legends), two actors with some experience who are still under the radar to make the fans, women and men alike, melt over their voices.
That said, this new Twilight won’t be a remake, but an adaptation of Midnight Sun, the 2020 book that retells Twilight from Edward’s point of view. I mean, it’s not exactly the same story, but it’s pretty close. It’s true that critics didn’t like the book at all, but it sold a million copies in its first week in stores, so, frankly, why would Netflix care how good it is?
If this adaptation is a hit, maybe it’ll be time to adapt the other book in the series, the one that retells Twilight with the main characters’ genders swapped. Basically a glorified copy-paste, let’s not kid ourselves. This is how lazy things have gotten just so we can have something else to sink our teeth into in our favorite nostalgic franchises.
