With a planned Harry Potter TV series in development and a Hunger Games prequel out this fall, it’s no surprise that fellow mid-to-late 2000s YA juggernaut Twilight is also reportedly coming back from the dead. 

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that, more than a decade after the franchise’s final film (2012’s Breaking Dawn—Part 2), the vampire saga may be adapted once more, this time as a TV show. Just as controversial author J.K. Rowling is involved in the Harry Potter series, Twilight author Stephenie Meyer will reportedly help shepherd her lions and lambs onto the small screen. 

There is no home or release date for the project, let alone a clear coherent direction just yet. Sinead Daly, whose credits include Tell Me Lies, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and The Get Down, is attached to write the script, although sources tell THR that it’s unclear whether her vision will be a remake or a spin-off. Reps for Lionsgate Television declined to comment to the outlet.

Talk of expanding the original five-film franchise, which grossed more than $3.4 billion worldwide, has never fully evaporated thanks to an ever fervent fanbase and the media Twilight has inspired; never forget that the Fifty Shades trilogy was based on Twilight fan fiction. Catherine Hardwicke, director of the original 2008 film, even riffed on remake concepts during a recent interview with IndieWire, somewhat facetiously pitching sequels set in space or the Wild West. 

Speaking with Vanity Fair in 2018, Hardwicke noted that, across four additional Twilight movies, four Hunger Games, and three Divergent films, “none of them were directed by women!” The filmmaker continued, “That was a heartbreak for me. There are other badass women out there that could have done those.”

Perhaps, then, the only reason to do a Twilight series (other than, you know, money) would be to provide the opportunity for women or people of color to retell this romance between two outsiders. Otherwise, though, it’s difficult to deem this a good day to be a Twihard. 

If the powers that be opt to improve upon the oft mocked movies, which propelled Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson to superstardom and—eventually—industry legitimacy, then they will zap the Twilight franchise of its rewatchable sparkle. These movies endure, in large part, because they’re so enjoyably ridiculous: Think Taylor Lautner’s indelible delivery of “Bella, where the hell have you been, loca?” Or Bella and Edward spider-monkeying from one tree to the next against an ultraviolet backdrop. Or that all-vampire baseball scene set to Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole.” These campy morsels live on in pop culture infamy; a “good” version of Twilight, whatever that means, would totally miss the point.

And, if the series doesn’t suck the pulpy fun out of the original, à la HBO Max’s now deceased Gossip Girl reboot? Even in that case, viewers may as well just rewatch the original films, as they’ve been known to do—over and over. Just as Edward faces no good options in his choice between turning Bella into an immortal or losing her forever, one fears that unearthing a Twilight TV show will be similarly lose-lose.