Watch: Why Kristen Stewart Feels "Unstoppable" Working With Wife Dylan MeyerKristen Stewart isn't opposed to sinking her teeth back into the Twilight franchise. Indeed, the actress-who starred as Bella Swan in the five-movie franchise alongside ex Robert Pattinson-recently revealed that under the right conditions, she'd be completely open to directing a remake of the 2008 cult classic. "Imagine if we had like a huge budget and a bunch of love and support," she told Entertainment Tonight in an interview published Jan. 5. "I would love to readapt." She added, "Yeah, sure. I'll do the remake. I'm doing it. I'm committed." Though the 35-year-old would be all in on directing a readaptation, she wouldn't change a thing about the decade-defining franchise, which released its final film in 2012. "I love what all of the directors did with the movies," Kristen-who tied the knot with Dylan Meyer in April-explained. "But they were so themselves and weird and kind of squirrelly and just so present in that time when they didn't really know what they were yet before they blew up."readKristen Stewart's NSFW Tattoo Meaning RevealedBut it seems that having a director's seat on set came with its pros and cons. After all, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke recently detailed her time working on the 2008 film, including the treatment she received following the blockbuster's success. "I walked into a room with all these gifts, and everybody was congratulating the studio," Catherine told The Guardian in an interview published on July 9. "They gave me a box. I opened it up, and it was a mini cupcake." Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty ImagesBut the gift didn't sit right with the 70-year-old, who noted that a male director would've received "a car, or a three-picture deal, or [getting] to do basically whatever you want" for creating such a blockbuster hit. And indeed, the first film-which was adapted from Stephenie Meyer's book series-was a memorable release, grossing $407 million in return, per Forbes. And it seems that Stephanie isn't ready for the saga to be over, previously revealing that she has even more books outlined. "I have other stories outlined," the author told Good Morning America in an interview published Sept. 17, "that I don't know if we'll ever get to." But even if she never actually writes and releases them, the 51-year-old promised that fans will still get to find out how Bella, Edward and Jacob's stories end. "I'll have somebody disseminate [my outlines] after my death," she said, "if I never get around to it." "For me, Bella and Edward are frozen where Breaking Dawn ended," she continued. "For me, the stories go on." For a look at the juiciest Twilight secrets, read on...
Andrew Cooper/Summit Entertainment1. When first writing Twilight, screenwriter Mark Lord recalled fears that the male audience wouldn't be interested. They wanted to take the concept of Romeo and Juliet, but with vampires "and build in a structure that was far more a cinematic structure," he shared on The Big Hit Show podcast in January 2022. "And they wanted to just put in more action to advance it more and give something more for the male audience. They thought they were going to lose the male audience with too much of a romance." 2. Director Catherine Hardwicke quickly made the writers pivot after throwing the first draft into the trash. "The original script literally had Bella on jet skis being chased by the FBI," she recalled. "She was a star athlete. Nothing to do with the book."Andrew Cooper/Summit Entertainment3. Paramount and MTV initially had acquired the film rights to Twilight, with the original script making significant changes to the book. "It had veered very far from the book, and so I did not like it at all," director Hardwicke revealed to CinemaBlend. After three years, Paramount released the rights and then-independent film studio Summit Entertainment immediately picked them up. 4. Book author Stephenie Meyer had some strict guidelines when it came to the adaptation of her source material. She didn't want any stereotypical vampire elements added in and demanded that Edward's "so the lion fell in love with the lamb" line make it into the final version. She also stepped in to have Kellan Lutz take over the role of Emmett when she didn't agree with the initial casting choice and asked to have Bella and Edward's first kiss toned down. Of stepping in to put her foot down, Meyer told EW, "That's hard for me, but I'm glad of every time I did it and I don't think I stepped on too many toes and everyone seems to still like me."(C) Imprint Entertainment/Entertainment Pictures/ZUMA Press5. According to Summit's then-Head of Production Erik Feig, Meyer was adamant that her vampires didn't have fangs. "The negotiated language says, 'No actor playing a vampire will have canine incisors longer than those found in the average human being,'" he recalled on Spotify's The Big Hit Show podcast. "And that to me is... I love that line." 6. Some soon-to-b