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David Cronenberg Wants To Reunite Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson In A New Film

The Crimes of the Future director wants to reunite the Twilight stars on a future project.

by NYLON

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are at the top of their respective acting games, yet we as a society love nothing more than to remember their Hollywood origin story: the Twilight saga.

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Turns out David Cronenberg — the director of Crimes of the Future, in which Stewart stars as a rogue agent working for the National Organ Register — has an inner Twi-hard after all.

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Ahead of the film’s premiere at Cannes, Cronenberg had coffee with celebrated film critic Jordan Ruimmy and revealed his hopes of reuniting Stewart and Pattinson on screen.

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“It was Robert who actually introduced me to Kristen,” David told Jordan. “They have developed beautifully, separately, as actors. Making arthouse movies and successfully carrying that off. Kristen and I had a great time and Rob and I had a great time. For me, yeah, I can definitely think of a movie, or idea, that would be great to have them both together.”

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Cronenberg previously worked with Pattinson on the 2012 thriller Cosmopolis and 2014 satire Maps to the Stars.

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But Cronenberg stayed mum for the most part. “I don’t want to get into it because it wouldn’t be my next movie,” he noted.

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But understanding the staunch and ravenous nature of the Twilight fandom, the director already has some apprehensions about reuniting the two actors for a film.

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“It might be problematic since fans might expect a certain kind of relationship and that would get in the way of creating new characters for them. So, I have a strange feeling that might be problematic, so it’s only theoretical for now.”

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