Kristen Stewart would ‘love’ to direct a Twilight reboot – but fans aren’t sure

Twilight star Kristen Stewart has teased that she would be down to revisit the vampiric romance franchise, if she’s the one sitting in the directors’ chair.

Stewart, who made her name as clumsy Cullen lover Bella Swan in the noughties film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s iconic novel series, has said that she would be drawn to the idea of remaking Twilight with a “huge budget and a bunch of love and support”.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Stewart appeared to talk herself into the idea on the spot.

The actress, who has made her directorial debut with the upcoming psychological drama The Chronology of Water, was asked whether there is one of her projects she would like to remake as a filmmaker, with the reporter suggesting The Twilight Saga as a starting point.

“It’s funny, I was talking to one of my friends about that movie because it was on TV a lot over the holidays. I was like, ‘How is that ageing?’ Because they watch it every year on Christmas,” Stewart said, seemingly deflecting the question at first.

“Look, I love what Catherine [Hardwicke, Twilight director] did. I love what Chris [Weitz, The Twilight Saga: New Moon director] did. I love what all of the directors did with the movies.

“But they were so themselves and weird and squirrely and just so present in that time and they didn’t really know what they were yet before they blew up,” she continued, before fully relenting.

“Imagine if we had like a huge budget and a bunch of love and support? I would love to readapt. Yeah, sure. I’ll do the remake. I’m doing it. I’m committed,” she said, perhaps a little tongue-in-cheek.

Fans of the original franchise aren’t entirely convinced by the idea, though. Some are thrilled by the possibility that Stewart could flip the franchise’s narrative on its head, and make a lesbian vampiric drama.

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“I need to push the lesbian Twilight narrative this is my 2026 resolution,” one fan wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

“The concept of Kristen Stewart finally making her sparkling lesbian vampire directorial debut,” a second agreed.

“I would actually LIVE for a lesbian Twilight reboot directed by Kristen Stewart,” a third added.

Some, though, are a little more apprehensive. One fan wrote on X that they would like to see Twilight remade but only with “better acting”, while a second added that they only want to see the franchise remade if Bella is queer.

A third simply didn’t believe Stewart was serious, writing: “I know she’s lying.”

After blowing up with her portrayal of Bella Swan alongside Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen, Stewart went on to star in films including Snow White and the Huntsman, queer crime drama Love Lies Bleeding, and Spencer, for which she received an Oscar nomination.

The Chronology of Water, which stars Imogen Poots as writer and teacher Lidia Yuknavitch, marks Stewart’s feature film directorial debut. The gripping, visceral movie is an adaptation of Yuknavitch’s memoir of the same name, detailing her abusive childhood, her dreams of swimming stardom, her drug and and alcohol abuse, and the exploration of her queer identity through BDSM.

“I’ve been working on other people’s films my whole life, since I was nine-years-old. I feel like everything’s been building to this moment where I was able to find a little space for myself,” Stewart said recently of directing a full-length movie, having previously directed the Boygenius short film, The Film. “It’s what I’ve wanted to do for my whole life.”

Kristen Stewart, who is bisexual and got married to screenwriter Dylan Meyer in 2025, has previously sounded off on the notion that queer people should have to focus on queer storytelling.

“I think we can’t keep doing that thing where we tell everyone how to feel and sort of pat each other on the back and receive brownie points for providing space for marginalised voices, and only in the capacity that they are allowed to speak about that alone,” she said, reflecting on her gory lesbian thriller, Love Lies Bleeding.

“We’ve all been there the whole time. I think the era of queer films being so pointedly only that is done, it’s over. Maybe they’ll keep happening, but I think it’s sort of inherent to how we’re all moving forward.”

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