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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.”

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!”

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.

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.”

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, Entertainment Weekly 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.