Kristen Stewart Directing a Twilight Remake? She Says…

1. 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."