Twilight’s Best Spinoff Would Be A Cullen Family Prequel Series
A traditional sequel to Twilight wouldn’t work for myriad reasons, but a prequel television series focusing on the Cullen clan’s bleak backstories could reignite interest in the franchise. The Twilight franchise was a full-blown pop culture phenomenon circa the late 00s when the novel saga topped the bestseller charts and Twilight's movie adaptations were blockbuster hits at the multiplex.
However, for the first few years after the series wrapped in 2012, Twilight’s popularity appeared to wane. The franchise was replaced by a more critically well-liked young adult fiction adaptation and the Twilight saga became a cringe-worthy if nostalgic piece of pop culture ephemera from the previous decade. However, as leading actors Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson became blockbuster stars all over again, recent years have seen something of a revival in Twilight’s fortunes.
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As proven by the extraordinary streaming numbers that Netflix reported when the Twilight movies were made available on the service, the series is still popular with viewers of a certain vintage. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer wasted no time cashing in on this collective audience nostalgia when she released Midnight Sun, a re-telling of the original Twilight novel from Edward Cullen’s perspective, in 2020. However, it was a lot easier for the writer to bring back the story on paper than it would be for Twilight’s producers to repeat this trick on screen. The prospect of a Twilight sequel is almost impossible to imagine in 2022 for numerous reasons, which is precisely a prequel television show chronicling the Cullen family’s origins could work.
Despite the Netflix hit Midnight Mass borrowing some of
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