Netflix’s Twilight animated series Midnight Sun has started casting for Jacob Black and Billy Black, a move that pushes the project out of its long dormancy. The update matters because the series has sat in development for nearly two years, and this is the first concrete sign that the adaptation is moving toward production.
Taylor Lautner and Billy Black
The casting call targets two key Quileute characters: Jacob Black and Billy Black. Jacob is being sought as a recurring role for a Native American male actor, while the breakdown calls for an adult actor to voice the young teen role. Billy Black is described as Jacob’s wheelchair-bound father, which makes the search for the pair more than routine background casting.
Taylor Lautner previously played Jacob Black in the original Twilight movies, and Gil Birmingham played Billy Black. That history gives the new search an immediate benchmark: Midnight Sun is not simply filling parts, it is rebuilding roles that already have a screen identity attached to them.
Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer is executive producing the series, which adapts her companion novel Midnight Sun. The story retells the events of Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective, and that framing keeps the animated version tied to the franchise’s core mythology rather than treating it as a side project.
Sinead Daly is serving as showrunner, with Lynn Wang attached as supervising director. Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Erik Feig, Meghan Hibbett, and Emily Wissink are among the producers and executive producers, a lineup that suggests the project is being handled as a serious franchise extension rather than a one-off experiment.
Late 2027 Window
Main-character casting has not happened yet, which is the most important friction point in the current update. The project is moving, but it is still early enough that the central voices around Edward Cullen and the rest of the cast remain undecided.
There is no release date yet for Midnight Sun, and the series is unlikely to arrive before late 2027 at the earliest. For readers tracking the project, the practical takeaway is simple: casting for Jacob Black and Billy Black is progress, but the show is still far from release and still needs its lead voices locked before the finish line comes into view.
