Is Stephenie Meyers releasing Midnight Sun, which is Twilight told through Edward Cullen’s sparkly-vampire perspective? [LaineyGossip]
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“ Is Stephenie Meyers releasing a new version of Twilight”
Haven’t we all suffered enough?!
hahahaha that was my exact thought too
Exactly!
I need to know who was asking for this so I can talk to them about their life choices.
Bust srsly – I remember reading about this when the original series was being published. I wonder what took so long?
Yes I would have silently been totally into this like 15 years ago when the books just came out. Why would you wait this long to release it?
I do too and it was because someone had hacked it somehow and published the first few chapters she had written and she got real butt hurt, which yeah that would be frustrating, and said she was not going to continue writing it for the time being. She published the chapters herself too.
I remember that! Then she followed it up with a gender swapped version of Twilight (which no one asked for and just seemed like a defensive response to criticism). It feels like the Twilight ship sailed a long time ago. I’m not sure there are going to be many people wanting to buy this book.
The first movie by Indie director, Catherine Hardwicke, was very well thought out and much more well realized. There were fewer expectations obviously for it to be a huge success. It caught on in a big way, possibly due to the chemistry between the stars. Plus Hardwicke did a great job with the directing and with how that first film was crafted, which somewhat managed to overcome Stephenie Meyers’ cheesy original text.
Unfortunately, the first film’s success at the box office, led to the studio bringing in male directors with bigger names and throwing bigger bucks at production for the sequels. Their lame excuse for not bringing back Hardwicke was that she didn’t do a great job with the first film’s special effects. That’s laughable because the rest of the films in the series had worse OTT special-effects, in addition to bad scripts and laugh-riot scenes and dialogue.
sorry double comment
This is a good point. Why now? Why at all, really? I also remember it being a possibility back when they were first coming out. I was a teen and actually read them up until the last one which I hurled against a wall and never finished – because as far as trash books go, there’s still a limit of what I can handle.
Maybe she is buying a house or two for her now grown up children.
This was me exactly. I was late to the Twilight train and when I finally read BD, I was so flipping angry, I assumed I was being punked. I ended up in Twilight fanfic, which was a magical place way back in the day!
God, I hope not. She’s such a terrible writer. I couldn’t get past three chapters.
Which is a shame because the people I know who’ve read it says it’s not actually as sexist as it appears on the surface and nowhere near as bad as its plaigerized spin off Fifty Shades. A lot of the story is about a young woman making her own choices despite others disapproving – particularly her father and husband. Imagine what a better author could’ve done with that.
I agree. I couldn’t get through the first chapter of Twilight. I just can’t read bad writing
Honestly, I’m just gonna say it: the books were FULL of Mormon symbolism and that’s why it was a huge turn off to so many. Yes the premise was great – falling in love with a vampire and being able to make your own decisions – but it was written by someone who isn’t a strong writer and IS still a strong believer in problematic dogma, and that was all there in the books.
Please God NO.
Okay, come at me….
I really like The Host, her next effort after the Twilight books. The movie was actually impressively awful, but I love the book. I haven’t read her adult novel but I wish she, or her agent or whoever, would move on from Twilight and focus on other stuff.
The Host was great… until it was ruined by the extra ending. If that last chapter hadn’t been added in it would have been a great book.
Yes, I really enjoyed The Host too. It was marginally better written. Meyers is a subpar writer but she had some great ideas, and she did the hard work of putting her ideas down on paper and getting her work published.
It’s too bad that The Host film flopped, especially with Saiorse Ronan in the title role, with other notable cast members.
Me too. MEEE TOO. It was a really really cool idea, and I enjoyed it. That could have been a cool franchise. I didn’t even hate the movie they made. I’m sure someone else has written something similar and better though, now that I think about it.
The Chemist was pretty good! I think I would have been less critical of it if her name wasn’t on it, TBH. She’s gotten better as a writer. The Chemist > The Host > > > > Twilight series.
I enjoyed reading twilight but it was a guilty pleasure / hate read. Such poor writing but it was addictive.
If she is, who really cares? After she pouted about her draft leaking and saying she wouldn’t complete it, I was over it.
I can’t wait, lol, I loved what was leaked, and still love twilight, it’s fun, and corny, and a light read, especially with how horrible life is right now, I wouldn’t mind some escapism
Agreed. I loved Twilight. No its not Tolstoy, but it’s a book you can sit and read all at once and be happy with the endings. I like the movies too, the scenery is beautiful and it’s like bubble gum for the brain.
Ugh. If we have to revive a fantasy series why can’t we watch Jim Butcher’s hunky Dresden character wizard his way through private investigations of humans and non-humans (vampires, demons, werewolves, spirits, sprites, fairies, etc.) and the Chicago PD lol.? Nineteen books. Plenty of material and no teens!!
Oooh. This sounds good! What’s the name of the series?
Drew’s Walmart pillows are definitely the same fabric design, just different colors, and they’re going to lose that lawsuit.
Also, none of the pillows are that pretty, IMO.
yeah the Walmart pillows are definitely a copy. tbh the original one is super fug. why is it brown? and who is paying $300-$600 for that???
I agree. They look like a horrible combo of paint splatter and camo. They’re hideous. No wonder Walmart copied them, they’re definitely a Walmart style thing. 😂
please we’re all dealing with corona. i don’t think we can take any more pain and suffering
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO could care.
I think Stephanie is about 10 years too late on that ship, but who knows maybe it will drum up interest from the younger generation. People love to hate on her terrible writing but the books and movies did what they were supposed to do, they took you out of your reality for awhile. She made a ton of money putting her fantasies out there, I couldn’t do that so I’m not gonna shit on her.
I remember reading what was leaked. I think I enjoyed it although it was ages ago. I actually liked the twilight books, the films weren’t great except for maybe the first one.
Thanks for sharing the link to the wonderful article about Irrfan Khan. His loss has hurt me greatly.
twilight was fun. How can anyone take vampires that sparkle serious? This book however, is not needed…..off subject they really missed an opportunity by not casting Anna Kendrick’s as bella
Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him and will do it again.
Bah ha ha!
Wow I hope not. She is a terrible director! The Twilight movies were sooooo bad. I loved the cheesy books and wished they had been translated to screen properly.
I appreciate the Twilight books/movies for the cheesy crap that they are. Lol
Ok so I am just as big an anti-Twihard as anyone could be. I even used to frequent a “Twilight sucks” message board (remember those??) and made a few irl friends from it.
THAT SAID, I have been listening to the podcast Hot & Bothered and they’re doing a Twilight in Quarantine series, where they recap and dissect the book chapter by chapter, and it is HILARIOUS. Part of me wonders if Meyer is releasing this because the popularity of the podcast has possibly driven up sales of the first book again. So I’d guess yes, she’s going to publish Midnight Sun.
Oh man Twilight was so bad. I remember walking out during the scene where he tells her he’s a vampire. So corny and just terrible.
The inimitable Joanna Lumley just had her birthday on May 1st. I’ll drink to that!