A Twilight TV show remake? Fans react to the insane news

“If you ignore the Twilight reboot it doesn’t exist,” said one incensed fan
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Elizabeth Gregory20 April 2023

The Twilight saga, the teen vampire romance films that became one of the world’s major talking points in the late Noughties, coming only second, perhaps, to the US election race and Obama’s accession, is going to be remade into a TV series.

The news has, predictably, caused a firestorm online, as fans of the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s novels cannot believe that anyone would bother touching what they deem to be a “cinematic masterpiece”.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the new Lionsgate Television series is in early development. Sinead Daly, who wrote the 2016 TV show Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, is attached to the script. It’s not yet clear which parts of the Twilight saga the new series will focus on, or what story the TV show is going to tell. Still in its very early days, the new series apparently has not yet even been bought by a network.

Meyer’s six Twilight saga novels were made into five films, all of which follow the story of vampire Edward Cullen and human Bella Swan who fall in love in the first novel. The series, which famously starred Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, has grossed over $3.4 billion worldwide.

So how have the Twilight fans, a notoriously passionate group, reacted to the news?

“This is the worst day of my life,” tweeted one, while another said, “A twilight remake is blasphemous. you cannot catch lightning in a bottle twice.”

Here is our pick of some of the most heartfelt reactions online.

There are those who are overwhelmed by all the recent remake news

And those who are specifically unhappy about the Twilight remake news

There are the fans who think it can’t be done well

And then there are the Twilight fans who are just plain grumpy

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