Lionsgate is increasing the “Twilight” franchise with a brand new animated collection, Selection has confirmed.

Michael Burns, vice chairman of Lionsgate, shared the information throughout a Q&A on the Morgan Stanley media convention on Tuesday, revealing, “We’re going to exit with the ‘Twilight’ collection, an animated collection, I feel there’ll be numerous curiosity in that.”

Final April, Selection reported {that a} “Twilight” TV collection adaptation was in very early improvement at Lionsgate Tv.

The animated collection could be primarily based on the Stephanie Meyer e book collection of the identical identify, which was beforehand tailored into a movie franchise, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

There have been 4 “Twilight” novels — “Twilight,” “New Moon,” “Eclipse” and “Breaking Daybreak” — revealed between 2005 and 2008. In 2015, Meyer launched the e book “Life and Demise: Twilight Reimagined,” which gender-swapped the 2 fundamental characters, Bella and Edward. Meyer then launched “Midnight Solar” in 2020, which advised the story of the primary e book from Edward’s perspective quite than Bella’s.

The movie franchise, collectively referred to as “The Twilight Saga,” was comprised of 5 movies (the “Breaking Daybreak” e book was cut up into two) that had been launched between 2008 and 2012. The 5 “Twilight” movies grossed over $3 billion on the international field workplace in whole.

Burns additionally revealed that Lionsgate is increasing the “John Wick” franchise with a brand new collection, saying, “I feel we’ll take considered one of our nice motion franchises starring Keanu Reeves, I feel it’ll be a tv collection.”

Reeves portrayed the titular gun-fu motion hero in 4 movies, launched between 2014 and 2023. The upcoming “John Wick” present comes on the heels of the prequel miniseries “The Continental,” which premiered on Peacock in September 2023.