“Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke hopes the upcoming TV sequence adaptation sinks its tooth deeper into the forbidden romance on the middle of the teenager vampire saga.
Hardwicke helmed the primary film that was launched in 2008 and starred Kristen Stewart as excessive schooler Bella and Robert Pattinson as undead bloodsucker Edward. The director stepped away from the franchise after the preliminary movie’s blended reception and was changed by Chris Weitz. Lionsgate just lately announced a TV sequence adaptation in early improvement over a decade because the movie sequence concluded in 2012.
“I believe it’s thrilling,” Hardwicke informed MovieWeb of the upcoming present. “I believe we see that it’s a permanent story that individuals maintain participating with. You already know, the TikTok world loves it, the web generations, all people retains discovering it. I used to be speaking to a woman the opposite day, she was born the yr we made the primary ‘Twilight’ movie, and she or he was very captivated with it.”
Hardwicke continued, “So I believe, if something, within the first one, we have been capable of maintain it somewhat bit extra grounded, just a bit bit. You felt like there was some sort of actuality to it, and you actually felt the connection between Bella and Edward. In order that could be a enjoyable means to consider it, but additionally the chemistry between Edward and Bella is so necessary.”
“Twilight” creator Stephanie Meyer is predicted to be concerned within the TV sequence, and movie franchise producers Wyck Godfrey and Erik Feig will govt produce. Sinead Daly is hooked up to write down the present.
Hardwicke told IndieWire earlier this yr that she was skeptical whether or not creator Meyer will log out on extra iterations of the novels.
“I don’t know if Stephenie [Meyer] will go for it, that’s the one factor,” Hardwicke mentioned, noting that extra “Twilight” content material “can be enjoyable.”
“There’ve been 1,000,000 issues like, ‘Can we do a TV sequence?’ There’s been 1,000,000 humorous parodies,” the “Mafia Mamma” director mentioned. “Seeing an entire new crowd of individuals enjoying these components, that could possibly be fairly attention-grabbing. Why not? Do a twist on it! Let’s do ‘Twilight’ in outer area, that will be enjoyable. Or set it prior to now. Let’s do it again within the Wild West! We may try this Oregon Path or one thing like that. The Oregon Path wasn’t exhausting sufficient! You’re dying of dysentery, or you would be bit by a vampire.”
Hardwicke additionally mirrored on the inventive determination to indicate Edward (Pattinson) biting Bella (Stewart) onscreen, which was by no means featured within the first e-book.
“I’m like, ‘No, we’re going to see it.’ We’re going to get visible. We’re going to make bodily the issues which might be psychological within the books, just like the treetop scene,” she mentioned. “Each likelihood for an motion sequence the place you’ll be able to specific character by way of motion, I like that. Let’s make it bodily if we will.”
The “Prisoner’s Daughter” director concluded, “We’ve got all these dumb issues that individuals suppose: ‘A girl can’t direct motion. A woman doesn’t understand visual effects.’ All these annoying issues, regardless of what number of occasions you say, ‘OK, properly, take a look at Kathryn Bigelow or take a look at this or take a look at this.’ My first jobs have been in visible results once I got here to L.A., so I do perceive them very properly. It’s sort of annoying. You get informed, ‘This isn’t actually the sort of film for you.’ Even after I had ‘Twilight,’ I used to be informed that very same sort of factor.”
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