Step aside Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Twilight director names dream cast for reboot

Catherine Hardwicke thinks Jacob Elordi and Jenna Ortega would make a good Edward Cullen and Bella Swan.

Step aside Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Twilight director names dream cast for reboot
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson star in the Twilight films. (Photo: Summit Entertainment)

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke would choose Jacob Elordi and Jenna Ortega to play the lead roles in a reboot.

The original movie – based on the book by Stephenie Meyer – was released in 2008 and starred Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen who strikes up a romance with teenager Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, and Hardwicke says she would pick Elordi and Ortega for the roles if she had to name the dream cast for a remake.

During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, host Josh Horowitz asked: “Is Jacob Elordi Edward Cullen today? Is Jenna Ortega … [Bella]” and Catherine replied: “Oh, that would be perfect.”

She added of Priscilla star Elordi: “I mean, he’s amazing. He probably would be Edward today.”

Hardwicke went on to say: “It would’ve changed anyone’s life if they got that part, … I do think there’s a lot of really cool young actors today. Of course, you just mentioned Jenna Ortega, she’s amazing.”

The original film spawned four sequels – New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2 – and it was recently reported a Twilight TV series is in the works at Lionsgate TV.

When asked about the new TV project, Hardwicke insisted she doesn’t know much about it. She said: “[I haven’t] actually found out exactly … I don’t know yet [what it will look like]. Maybe they don’t even know.”

She went on to reveal she was involved in a Twilight reunion last year when she attended Pattinson’s 37th birthday party along with Stewart.

The director explained: “Strangely enough, I ended up … I went to Rob’s birthday party recently. I kinda crashed with my friend Toni Collette, who had just done a movie with him. We had a fun thing, and then Kristen crashed it too. That was just a few months ago, and it was just like, ‘Oh my God!’ We all hugged each other – like, this is so crazy and cool.”