'Twilight' stars react to a possible TV series reboot: 'Excited to see this happen'

You'd better hold on tight, spider monkey — "Twilight" fans have some news to decode.

More than a decade after the fifth and final movie in "The Twilight Saga" series was released, the global phenomenon might get a TV show adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The reboot plans are in the early stages at Lionsgate Television and don't yet have a timeline or cast, per THR's reporting, though author Stephenie Meyer is said to be involved.

Sinead Daly, a writer and producer who has worked on shows such as "The Walking Dead: World Beyond" and "Tell Me Lies," is said to be writing the script. Melissa Rosenberg wrote the script for all five "Twilight" movies.

Wyck Godfrey, who produced the "Twilight" films, and Erik Feig, who bought the rights to "Twilight" at movie studio Summit Entertainment — which was bought by Lionsgate in 2012 — are also said to be on board with producing the potential TV series.

A spokesperson for Lionsgate declined to comment for this story.

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'Twilight' stars react to the rumored TV series

As social media reacts to the news, at least two "Twilight" franchise stars have weighed in.

Jackson Rathbone, who played Cullen family member Jasper, posted a screenshot of THR's tweet to his Instagram Story and added "uh oh" with a flushed face emoji.

Ashley Greene (aka Alice Cullen) had a more positive response. She reposted fashion designer Rachel Zoe's Instagram Story about the news to her own Stories and added, "Haha I love you @rachelzoe. And I'm also excited to see this happen."

Zoe's Story read, "The excitement I feel is immeasurable.. that said there will never be another Edward and Bella nor another @nikkireed @ashleygreene."

"#twihardforever," she added.

What would a 'Twilight' TV show be about?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, writer Sinead Daly "is working with Lionsgate TV to determine what the specific take on Twilight will be and if it will be a remake of Meyer’s books or a different offshoot."

Lionsgate owns the rights to the "Twilight" franchise. Before the rights to the story landed at Summit Entertainment (now Lionsgate) and it was adapted more faithfully to the books, the movie was being developed as a high-adrenaline drama with guns and boat chases at MTV Films, a production studio at Paramount Pictures.

Has there been a 'Twilight' TV series before?

This is not the first time the idea of a TV series based in the "Twilight" universe has been floated. Meyer herself hypothesized that if her most recent book, 2020's "Midnight Sun" — "Twilight" told from Edward Cullen's perspective — were to be adapted for the screen, "it would make more sense to film it for television so that there was time to really explore Edward’s world."

"But if we did ever adapt it, I don’t think there is any way we could use the same cast. Bella and Edward are seventeen — both Rob and Kristen are in their thirties now," she wrote on her blog.

Stephenie Meyer went from 1st-time author to global phenomenon

When “Twilight” published on Oct. 5, 2005, Stephenie Meyer was a first-time author and mother of three living in metro Phoenix who had received an unprecedented book deal. “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and “Breaking Dawn” published in quick succession over the next three years.

The global phenomenon started with “a very vivid dream” about an average teenage girl and a “fantastically beautiful” vampire boy one hot summer night in Arizona.

The books spawned five movies, which grossed $3.4 billion worldwide, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. And the series became an international bestseller, with more than 160 million copies sold as of 2021, according to Publishers Weekly.

The books are some of the most-read novels over the span of 17 years. “Twilight” takes fifth place among the 150 best-selling print books between 2004 and 2021, according to Publishers Weekly. "Breaking Dawn" is 11th, "New Moon" is 13th and "Eclipse" is 16th on that list.

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More books are planned for the 'Twilight' universe

Stephenie Meyer said in 2020 that she was not yet done with “Twilight,” though any future installments are likely to focus on peripheral characters rather than Edward and Bella.

"The stories are there; there are two more books, I think, in the world that I want to write. I have got them outlined and a chapter written I think of the first one, so I know it's there," Meyer said while promoting her most recent book, “Midnight Sun,” during a Books-A-Million virtual event in August 2020.

"I am not ready to do that right now; I want to do something brand new. For me, a lot of the joy of writing comes from creating, and I really want to do a new world and new rules and new mythology. Mythology is kind of my thing,” she added.

She elaborated on this on her blog afterward: "The most important thing to know about future 'Twilight' books is that they won’t appear for a very, very long time. This is a Midnight Sun-type timeline I’m speaking of," she wrote.

"I’m not going to work on them now, I want to create something brand new (I have not decided exactly which project I want to tackle). And that takes time. When I get back to Twilight, it’s going to be a slow writing process.

"When it ever does finally appear, the story will revolve around the same characters, but Renesmee will be narrating, along with Leah Clearwater. The story will take place five or ten or fifteen years after the end of Breaking Dawn (the length of that space depends on when I get around to writing the book)."

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Reach Entertainment Reporter KiMi Robinson at kimi.robinson@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @kimirobin and Instagram @ReporterKiMi.

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