The Twilight television series is still in its infancy and does not yet have a network or platform nor a writer because, according to sources, the studio, which owns the rights to the franchise, intends to lead the project's development before selling the package's rights. There isn't yet a course of events for when the Sundown series will be accepted out to likely purchasers as Lionsgate first intends to track down an essayist to control it.
The television adaptation is expected to involve author Meyer, according to sources. Wyck Godfrey and Erik Feig, who was co-president of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group when Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the Twilight book series after Paramount Pictures went out of business, have been hired to executive produce the television take. All five films distributed by Feig's Summit were made under Godfrey's Temple Hill banner. Together, the films starring Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart brought in over $3.4 billion worldwide.
Lionsgate Television representatives declined to comment.
Sundown is a significant piece of Lionsgate's library. Five years after Dawn of the Dead, in 2017, During an earnings call, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told Wall Street that "there are a lot more stories to be told, and we’re ready to tell them when our creators are ready to tell those stories," referring to both the Twilight and The Hunger Games franchises. Part 2 concluded Meyer's film adaptation.
In light of Lionsgate's negotiations with multiple bidders to possibly spin off its studio business and premium cable network Starz by the end of September 2023, reports of a Twilight TV series surface. In the third quarter, revenue for the Lionsgate studio business, which includes film and television production divisions, increased by 25% to nearly $900 million.
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