Edward and Bella to sparkle as cartoons in Twilight animated series
Remember Bella and Edward? They're back. In cartoon form.
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The Twilight reboot heading to television sets near you will be an animated series, per Deadline. The news comes out of the Morgan Stanley media conference, a one-stop shop for House Of The Dragon and Twilight news, where Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns also revealed that, in addition to the Twilight show, the studio is taking another crack at a John Wick series following the less-than-stellar returns on The Continental.
We reported the Twilight news last April, when The A.V. Club and the world’s population of Twi-hards responded with a resounding, “Why?” The film series, which wrapped in 2012, isn’t exactly calling for a redo, even if author Stephenie Meyer continues to release Twilight books from different perspectives. Nevertheless, at least this puts a new spin on the age-old romance between a high schooler and a 120-year-old vampire.
An animated series was always the plan for Twilight, Burns said, but less is clear about the John Wick series. Last year, the three-part miniseries, The Continental: From The World Of John Wick, finally answered the age-old question, “What if they ruined the goodwill amassed by the John Wick series and Keanu Reeves’ celebrity by casting Mel Gibson in a John Wick?” Of course, the answer was “results inconclusive due to complete lack of interest.” The series received middling reviews and a slew of bad press for casting Gibson.
As for the new show, Burns said that Lionsgate is taking “one of our great action franchises starring Keanu Reeves,” and “it’ll be a television series.” While that makes it sound like Reeves will star in the show, that seems unlikely, given how successful his Wick series continues to be in theaters. However, last year, John Wick director Chad Stahelski announced two new Wick shows were in development, including an anime-inspired series.
“We’re really excited about it because we’re doing a Japanese anime because I love Japanese anime so much,” Stahelski told The Playlist in November. “So to create all the cool stories that anime could achieve better than we could and the TV show to expand our world.”