I don’t watch a lot of animation, but I’m dying to sink my teeth into Netflix’s upcoming Twilight animated series

Stephenie Meyer, where have you been?

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When a movie franchise puts out the last installment in its line of movies, it has the same feeling you get when you close the final page of a book – at least that’s what I felt when I watchedBreaking Dawn Part Two, the last movie in the series of theTwilightmovies. NowNetflix, thebest streaming service, is set to revive the franchise with an animated series based on Stephenie Meyer’s novelMidnight Sun.

While the series is still in early development and Netflix has yet to unveil an official release date, we already have a sense of how the storyline of the newTwilightseries will unfold. The animated show will be adapted from the 2020 novelMidnight Sunby Stephenie Meyer – the writer of theTwilightnovel series  – which retells the events of the first book from the perspective of Edward Cullen, the teenage vampire who falls for Bella Swan.

Returning to theTwilightproduction team will be none other than the franchise’s creator herself, Stephenie Meyer, who will assume the position of executive producer with Meghan Hibbett of Fickle Fish Films. Accompanying the two will be Sinead Daly, who’s previous writing experience on one ofNetflix Australia’s best TV showsThe Get Downwill be an asset to bringing Edward’s story to life.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart played the roles of Edward and Bella in the movie series, which raked in billions of dollars in box office revenue between 2008-2012, but the question as to who will be next to step into the roles for Netflix’s animated series remains unanswered. Regardless of who’s selected and however the series is received, I can tell you that I will be binging it on premiere day.

Netflix, you have my undivided attention

I can imagine that a lot of people will have many questions about Netflix’s upcoming animated series because, while the original movies were box office successes, the ratings from critics are catastrophic. As it stands, the first movie,Twilight(2008), has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 49%, which is tied with its final installmentBreaking Dawn Part Two.Eclipsefollows with 46%, thenNew Moonwith 28%, andBreaking Dawn PartOne comes dead last with 25%, meaning that none of them have made our list ofbest Netflix movies.

As someone who not only lived through each movie release but once did a non-stop watch party where I watched all five movies in one day (it was lockdown), I admit that the films are objectively bad, but that’s why I’m obsessed with them. And what will undoubtedly annoy me about the upcoming animated series is the snobbish criticism it will receive, which will be purely based on itscanontexts. TheTwilightmovies weren’t designed to be moving and thought-provoking pictures, so why stay mad?

The beauty about theTwilightseries is that the entire thing is powered by its failed seriousness, which is the case for a lot of young-adult book to movie adaptations of the early-mid 2010s – just look at movies likeThe Fault in Our Stars(2014) and theDivergentseries (2014-2016). Netflix’s attempt at an animatedTwilightseries could absolutely crash and burn, and if it does, I’m here for it.

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Rowan is an Editorial Associate and Apprentice Writer for TechRadar. A recent addition to the news team, he is involved in generating stories for topics that spread across TechRadar’s categories. His interests in audio tech and knowledge in entertainment culture help bring the latest updates in tech news to our readers.

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