“The love between Edward and Bella should remain central”

It’s been months since Lionsgate announced the development of the Twilight television series, and we’ve had virtually no updates since then. In the past few hours, the director of the first film of the film saga Catherine Hardwicke He spoke on the concept direction the new TV show should go in.

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke says she looks forward to an upcoming TV adaptation Sink your teeth deep into the forbidden romance at the center of the saga

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Hardwicke directed the first film, released in 2008, starring Kristen Stewart as high schooler Bella and Robert Pattinson as the vampire Edward. Following the mixed reception of the first film, the director departed from the franchise and was replaced by Chris Weitz. Lionsgate recently announced a television series adaptation is in development more than a decade after the film series concluded in 2012.

,i think it’s exciting“Hardwick Tells MovieWeb About Upcoming Show”.It’s things like this that we see that it’s a lasting story that people relate to. The world of Tiktok worships him, generations of the internet, everyone keeps paying tribute to him

, I was talking to a girl the other day who was born the year we shot the first Twilight movie, and she was so emotional,

Hardwick added: “So I think, if anything, in the first movie we were able to keep it a little more solid, just a little bit. You felt there was a kind of realism there, and you really felt the connection between Bella and Edward. so that might be a funny way of thinking of it, but The chemistry between Edward and Bella is key,

With the announcement of the Harry Potter series, two franchises from the 2000s are returning to the small screen and streaming.

Saga writer Stephenie Meyer is expected to helm the television series, while film franchise creators Vic Godfrey and Eric Feig will executive produce. Sinead Daly was attached to write the series.