The “Chronology of Water” director took a moment to imagine what a readaptation would be like “if we had like, a huge budget and a bunch of love and support.”

*Twilight *star Kristen Stewart ‘would love to’ direct a remake: ‘I’m doing it! I’m committed!’

The "Chronology of Water" director took a moment to imagine what a readaptation would be like "if we had like, a huge budget and a bunch of love and support."

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January 5, 2026 1:12 p.m. ET

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Hold on tight, spider monkey! Kristen Stewart is ready to embark on a new *Twilight *chapter. **

The actress recently selected the first *Twilight* film as the project she’d most like to remake as a director while walking the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Creative Impact Awards.**

“I would love — look. I love what Catherine [Hardwicke] did, I love what Chris [Weitz] did, I love what all of the directors did with the movies,” Stewart told Entertainment Tonight. “They were so themselves and weird and kind of like, squirrelly, and just so present in that time when they didn’t really know what they were yet, like before they blew up.”

Kristen Stewart attends the Variety Creative Impact Awards and 10 Directors to Watch at the Palm Springs International Film Festival at Parker Palm Springs on January 04, 2026 in Palm Springs, California.

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Still, the *Chronology of Water *director couldn’t help but fantasize about what her take on Stephenie Meyers’ beloved vampire romance novels would look like if given the chance and resources. **

“Imagine if we had like, a huge budget and a bunch of love and support. I don’t know… I would love to readapt,” Stewart said. **

Turning toward the camera, she continued, “Yeah, sure, I’ll do the remake. I’m doing it! I’m committed!”

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Apart from *Breaking Dawn,* which was split into two films, each *Twilight* film was helmed by a different director, with Hardwicke directing *Twilight* before passing the baton to Weitz (*New Moon*), David Slade (*Eclipse*), and Bill Condon for both *Breaking Dawn* entries. **

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in 'Twilight'.

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Speaking with *The Hollywood Reporter *last month, Stewart praised Hardwicke’s leadership on *Twilight* and explained why she “felt bad” for the subsequent directors who were tasked with bringing the sequels to life amid a “really stifled” creation process. **

"That [first] *Twilight* movie is hers and reflects her; Catherine accomplished that, hands down," Stewart said at the time. “Being able to withstand and organize that many opinions, and still make something that feels like yours, is near impossible to do. With so many voices in the room and with so much expectation, nothing feels personal."

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The outlet went on to note that Stewart expressed her curiosity over whether or not the following filmmakers “actually felt like they fully directed those movies,” telling the publication that she “felt bad for them and proud of them” while shooting the sequels.

Still, she acknowledged that all of the installments still “had personality, in spite of a really stifled process" that it took to complete them.

"They feel almost overtly, bizarrely, spastically themselves," she said. She later added, “You need to have an incredibly thirsty, hungry, brazen, deplorably narrow drive. You look at that and you get jealous of it as an actor. So then you go, ‘I’d like to form my own version of that.’"

But Stewart isn’t the only one ready to sink her teeth back into *Twilight*. In 2023, * *learned that Lionsgate was in the early stages of developing a television adaptation of the novels, too.

Meyer is reportedly involved in the project, although the studio has not shared any additional information about the series since it was announced.

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