I suspect the reason why many had said BC could have been the next
Twilight franchise is because, like
Twilight, it's based on a series of young adult books. And while
Warm Bodies is also based on a book, I *think* it's only a one-time novel rather than a series. But regardless, the way things are supposedly shaping up with BC, it's not looking like it's going to see any sort of franchise. In fact, some are saying (though how they know this so soon is beyond me) that BC will be lucky to amass a total gross of $30 million (which, as we will recall, is just a few thousand more than what DS made in its opening weekend) over its entire time in theaters.
Also, I'm confused by the line dom quoted. At first I thought the reviewer was implying that BC was the sequel you would want to see to DS but that you didn't want to actually see DS - and that was because the reviewer hadn't liked DS. However, that was before I read the film reviews in my copy of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly and saw the line dom quoted as part of Owen Gleiberman's review in EW. So, he can't have meant to imply anything like that because, for one, Gleiberman loved DS - for two, he gave it a B+ - and for three, that's more than he gave BC because he gave it a B-. So, maybe he's trying to say that if you liked DS, you may like BC because of Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson. Who knows?