In a letter posted to her website, Meyer told fans that the event ' was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being,' and it drove her to give up on the project altogether. 4 and available for pre-order today, so you won't have to wait long to bask in the Midnight Sun.īack in 2008, excerpts from Midnight Sun leaked online, shortly after the release of Breaking Dawn and just ahead of the Twilight film release. Bustle has compiled everything we know about the new Twilight book, which revisits the events of the first novel from Edward's perspective. Meanwhile, Eclipse grossed $698.4 million B reaking Dawn: Part 1 grossed $712.2 million and Breaking Dawn: Part 2 finished with $829.7 million worldwide.Īfter finding success with her Twilight franchise, Meyers later penned the 2008 novel The Host (adapted for the 2013 film starring Saoirse Ronan) and 2016’s The Chemist.Fifteen years after the publication of Twilight, and almost 12 years after she canceled the release of this very book, Stephenie Meyer is finally bringing Midnight Sun to the masses. The second film in the film franchise, New Moon, grossed $709.7 million.

Each book in the franchise was adapted for film, before closing the curtains in 2012 with the final installment, Breaking Dawn: Part 2.įor its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, Twilight grossed $393.6 million worldwide. The popular franchise centered on a vampire and teenage human falling in love grew to become a cult phenomenon after it was adapted for the 2008 film of the same name starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Meyer’s Twilight books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. As soon as I finished my real work, I sat down and let Edward get his say.” I found myself thinking his words in the middle of the night and jotting down phrases he would use while I was waiting in line at the post office. “Though I didn’t have time to work on it right away, the idea of letting Edward have his chance to speak stuck with me.

There is so much more to his side of the story than there is to Bella’s in that first chapter,” she wrote to fans on her website. “While I was procrastinating some real editing work (I’m always at my most creative when procrastinating), I started to wonder how the first chapter of Twilight would read if it were written from Edward’s perspective.

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