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Oh Hollywood

Twilight Remake Denied — For Now

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 11:45 am, June 18th, 2012


Already mourning the end of Twilight with the release date of Breaking Dawn Part 2 inching closer and closer? Don’t start brainstorming those fanfiction continuations just yet, there may be more films in store for this immortal franchise. Maybe.

Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting suggests that Lionsgate will almost certainly look to either reboot the series entirely, “considering the initial saga is so poorly made,” or at least produce a couple of spin offs. Why? A desire to realize the full artistic potential of such an influential cultural phenomenon, duh. Just kidding, the reason is totally money.

Lionsgate acquired Summit Films, the series’ distributor, back in January to the tune of $412.5 million. Bloody Disgusting theorizes that given that the Twilight franchise has made over $2 billion over the course of four globally released films, and that “Lionsgate’s needs a fresh franchise to run alongside the Tyler Perry and Saw films that fueled them through the 00′s,” the film distributor will be looking for a bread and butter type of film series to keep the cash rolling in consistently.

Deadline checked into these claims with Lionsgate Co-Chairman Rob Friedman, who denied the rumors: “We are not remaking Twilight. We will happily support Stephanie Meyer if she decides to proceed in any way. But this will be the last one unless that should change.” Miska points out that this amounts to a pretty indefinite negation — the decision rests solely upon the series creator Stephanie Meyer, who has said in the past that she wouldn’t mind seeing a remake. Turns out he totally predicted their response, too: “They’ll deny it, right here, right now. We’ll get plenty of eggs in our face. Sites will burn us at the stake like a witch during the Salem trials. Still, the fact will remain: it’s true.”

What do you think? Will we be seeing more Twilight on the big screen? Do you think we’ll ever get to see an interaction between Renesmee and Jacob that isn’t totally creepy?

(via i09.)

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  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    It will happen sooner or later. There’s no way they’re leaving this cash cow out to pasture. I’m betting it will happen with Harry Potter too.

  • Anonymous

     As we’ve seen, Hollywood likes to beat cash cows to death, then poison the meat, so all we have left are memories of the way things were (see: original Star Wars).

  • Anonymous

     I have no idea what you’re talking about because there are only 3 Star Wars movies and an awesome cg Clone Wars cartoon with characters I had never, ever seen before in it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kristin-Frederickson/852880113 Kristin Frederickson

    It bothers me that Twilight has somehow earned the title “Saga”. Tetralogy, sure, but it’s not a saga any more than it’s an epic. Even Harry Potter has the decency to call itself a “series” and it’s boasting seven whole books.

  • PenguinGrenade

    I’d facepalm over this, but then I might spray sunflower seeds everywhere so I will resist for now.   Kinda sad when there so out of idea there rebooting “franchises” not even what five years old?

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  • Anonymous

    It happened with spider man! The last movie with Toby Maguire came out 5 years ago and now we have a reboot coming out this year

  • http://twitter.com/Super_Widget Joanna

    Shut up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andreia-Augusto/100003102682236 Andreia Augusto

    Aren’t there 6 Star Wars movies? Not remakes, but the 3 more recent ones are the story before the events from the 3 old ones. Right?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MYC65UZW7OMSYCL4YRFH4XKKKQ Brian

    Yeah, but that’s not an adaptation of the same book, it’s a new story about a character who’s had two or three new stories a month for the past 50ish years.

  • Amber Goss

     I think I’ll stick with daftalchemist’s reality…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=509458879 Charlotte Grubbs

    Hrm. While I put nothing past Hollywood, I really can’t see them remaking the Twilight films without the same actors without there being an enormous fan backlash. And I REALLY can’t see the actors (at least, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who’ve both made their disdain for the source material readily apparent) agreeing to be in any more films in the franchise.

    That said, didn’t Stephanie Meyer write a novella that took place in the same universe? I imagine there are already plans to make that into a movie. And I also expect Meyer to write more stories or novels set in the same universe, possibly with the same characters. She strikes me as the sort of creator who, like George Lucas, doesn’t know how to leave well enough alone. And I’d bet anything that the rights to those stories will be optioned the moment her fingers touch the computer keys. So yeah, while I’m sure we’ll being seeing more of the Twilight universe in the theaters (well, “we” generally speaking – I sure as hell won’t) I don’t think they will remake the original five movies anytime soon.

  • http://www.wordflow.webs.com/ Invisible_Jester89

    WHY?! Twilight’s film franchise steadily produced a movie every single year! It started in 2008 for God’s sake! Why are they considering a freaking remake ALREADY when the franchise doesn’t even need it?

    I don’t even LIKE Twilight. But Good Lord, just WHY? There’s gotta be better things they can do with the film than waste it on this tripe. They aren’t remaking the Harry Potter series, which is FAR better, and it started in 2001! Two-thousand and freaking ONE.

  • http://twitter.com/ScazzaGrace Sophie

    Actually, I highly doubt that they’ll reboot Harry Potter. It’s too big and recognizable  to be remade. I think it depends on the author’s wants as well. Stephenie Meyer said that she wouldn’t mind a remake but J.K. Rowling has said on numerous occasions that they way the HP Series turned out couldn’t have been more like what she wanted. If they were going to remake Harry Potter, it would be at least 50 years away. 

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