Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun is headed to the small screen, Deadline reports.
Meyer’s novel, published in 2020 by Little, Brown, is a retelling of her blockbuster novel Twilight from the perspective of the moody vampire Edward Cullen. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a love letter to fans who will forgive (and even revel in) its excesses and indulgences.”
Meyer’s Twilight series of young adult fantasy romance novels was a publishing phenomenon. The series is composed of four novels: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn; Meyer also published another retelling of the first novel, Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, in 2015.
The novels formed the basis for a series of hit films starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner.
The Midnight Sun adaptation, developed by Lionsgate Television and set to air on Netflix, will be an animated series. Sinead Daly (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Tell Me Lies) will serve as writer and executive producer. Meyer will also be an executive producer on the series.
Michael Burns, the vice chair of Lionsgate, had previously said that a series based on Meyer’s novel was in the works, Deadline reports.
“We’re going to go out with the Twilight series, an animated series—I think there’ll be a lot of interest in that,” he said at a media conference earlier this year.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
