CBS All Access' "The Twilight Zone" (Season 1)

[Walts Ghost]

Bryan Singer To Spearhead ‘Twilight Zone’ Series Reboot For CBS TV Studios

EXCLUSIVE: The Twilight Zone is eying a return to primetime. X-Men director Bryan Singer has closed a deal to develop, executive produce and possibly direct a reboot of Rod Serling’s classic. The drama series project, now in early stages, is set up at CBS TV Studios, which has the rights to the original series. Search is underway for a writer to pen the new Twilight Zone. The project has not been pitched to networks yet but CBS is an obvious destination since CBS TV Studios only supplies CBS and the CW on the broadcast side, and CBS carried the original series as well as the first revival. In addition to the TV series project, there has been a feature Twilight Zone remake in the works at Warner Bros. with Matt Reeves attached to direct from a script by Jason Rothenberg.

The original Twilight Zone series ran on CBS from 1959 to 1964. CBS also aired a remake, which ran from 1985 to 1989 seasons. The most recent series reboot, hosted by Forest Whitaker, premiered on UPN in 2002 and lasted one season. Singer, who directed the pilot for Fox’s long-running medical drama House, which he executive produced, recently helmed and exec produced another reboot of a classic series, NBC’s Munsters-themed Mockingbird Lane pilot, which aired as a Halloween special. On the feature side, Singer is back at the helm of the X-Men franchise with the upcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past after directing and producing the first two installments in the superhero movie series. He is with WME and attorney Dave Feldman.

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[Moefiz]

Didn't they try a reboot in the 80's or 90's and it didn't go anywhere

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

Didn't they try a reboot in the 80's or 90's and it didn't go anywhere

Yeah, because it sucked.

TZ is/was a product of it's time; to compete with today's programs, it'll be tweaked and played around with until it's one of two things:

1. A wimpy, washed-out TZ (like the recent series was)...

2. A "dark and gritty" TZ that resembles Serling's original in only the most marginal ways (twist endings).

Honestly, rather than make something new that satisfies almost no one, they should just leave well enough alone, and re-air the originals, a`la TVLand.

[Walts Ghost]

Both times they've tried to remake this, it hasn't really worked. Honestly, without Serling, there's really no Twilight Zone. At least in my opinion. It hasn't been the same without him. I think it may be time to leave well enough alone. Thankfully, I have my blu-rays to enjoy the original series.

[SleeperAgent]

I will give him a shot. But I will accept nothing short of the magnificence of the original. I will judge harshly.

[KilloWertz]

Third time's the charm?

Seriously though, I have my obvious doubts, but who knows.

[Helen Magnus]

If they want to do this right they need to look at short sci fi stories written recently. Not hire writers that haven't a clue about good sci fi stories.

[Clark Kent]

I imagine they will play it safe and most of the episodes will be simple remakes of classic Serling episodes. Anthology shows used to be much more popular but it's so hard to keep up the quality each episode that most shows fail to do it. The last anthology show that I think really worked was the new Outer Limits series, from the '90s.

[Wally Q]

Bryan Singer is a washed up has been who can't do anything original anymore, it seems. Makes you wish he hadn't directed X-Men because his career has been down hill ever since.

[Clark Kent]

Originally Posted by Wally Q

Bryan Singer is a washed up has been who can't do anything original anymore, it seems. Makes you wish he hadn't directed X-Men because his career has been down hill ever since.

He's really just a splashy name attached to the show at this point, to generate buzz. He will likely direct one or two episodes and have little future input into it after that stage. It was the same way with his involvement on House and other TV projects.

[Wally Q]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

He's really just a splashy name attached to the show at this point, to generate buzz. He will likely direct one or two episodes and have little future input into it after that stage. It was the same way with his involvement on House and other TV projects.

And? He's still proven he has little originality left and is a shell of his former self. He can't sell a project without "blah blah blah WE'RE GONNA APE WRATH OF KHAN!"

I'd have more faith in Seth MacFarlane developing a Twilight Zone series at this point.

[Walts Ghost]

Interactive ‘The Twilight Zone’ Series on the Way, ‘BioShock’ Creator Ken Levine to Write and Direct the Pilot

The original incarnation of The Twilight Zone belongs on any shortlist of the best and most influential television shows ever made. Rod Serling’s classic anthology series, which told one-off science fiction, horror, and fantasy stories that ranged from comical and melodramatic to unsettling and downright terrifying, still holds up today as a high-water mark for genre TV and required watching for anyone who enjoys good things.

And every few decades, someone tries to revive it and we’ve been due for another version for some time. Now, CBS has announced a new incarnation of this iconic series, but like so many episodes of The Twilight Zone, there’s a twist involved: it’s going to be interactive. Whatever that means.


The Wrap reports that Interlude, the interactive media company best known for that (still really impressive) “Like a Rolling Stone” video from a few years back, has signed a deal with the network to produce a series that will allow viewers to interact with the show as they watch it. Specific details remain under wraps, but they toss around phrases about audiences being able to “step in and become a part of the story” and “change and adapt the story based on what he or she feels.”

It sounds a bit like Interlude and CBS are taking a page from the video game realm, which means the hiring of Ken Levine to write and direct the pilot makes a lot of sense. Levine is best known for creating, writing, and acting as creative director on BioShock and BioShock: Infinite, the massively popular and stunningly crafted first-person adventures developed by Irrational Games, so he knows a thing or two about interactive entertainment.

This news arrives some time after our previous Twilight Zone reboot update. Bryan Singer was attached to produce a new series for CBS for quite some time and a feature film version of the series was being developed before seemingly vanishing into thin air a little while back. So while all of this is very interesting and very intriguing, Interlude and Levine actually have to do what many smart people have spent the last decade-plus trying and failing to do. They actually get this show to exist in some capacity beyond a headline.

Although CBS and Interlude’s statements are vague to the extreme, the suggestion here is that the new Twilight Zone will offer incentive for viewers to re-watch the same episode multiple times. “As with all other Interlude videos, viewers can return repeatedly and have a different viewing experience each time,” is a juicy quote, which seems to indicate that this show will either be a choose-your-own-adventure style experiment or will somehow allow audiences to view the story from differing perspectives. Either option sounds intriguing and the whole project sounds like it would be right at home as a CBS All Access exclusive, right alongside that upcoming Star Trek series.

Gimmicks aside, Levine and Interlude need to remember that the original Twilight Zone worked because a murderer’s row of writers (namely Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, and Charles Beaumont) were given the wiggle room to tell astonishing and compelling genre stories that shattered the mold before remaking that mold in a new image. Interactive stuff is secondary to great stories told well.

[GrouchoFan]

The only "interactivity" I will have with this show will be to change the channel. If anything, this sounds like some nightmarish vision of the future that Serling and company might have dreamed up for the original series.

[Hoke Moseley]

Jordan Peele Set to Host ‘The Twilight Zone’ Revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeS2...ature=youtu.be

[redxrebellion]

I’m in

[SleeperAgent]

Preview looks good, probably shouldn't use Serlings voice.

If the show is in black and white that would be a be great.

[Monterey Jack]

Too bad I'll never have CBS's streaming service.

[glennstl]

Originally Posted by SleeperAgent

Preview looks good, probably shouldn't use Serlings voice.

If the show is in black and white that would be a be great.

THIS would be a really cool idea!

[Noahishere]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Too bad I'll never have CBS's streaming service.

Why not? Just get the 1 week free thing like me. That's all you have to do! I'll wait until the reboot is out entirely...and then that's when I will jump on. CBS All Access is wack. This is the only show I want to see on their "service" and it's not even coming this year! I can be patient with it...

[x7q3]

This will be the 4th Twilight Zone series. There was the original black-and-white series in the 50's, one in the 80's, and one in the early 2000's.

I really hope it doesn't disappoint.

The original Twilight Zone is one of the best TV shows of all time. I still watch certain episodes, because they are classic and worth watching repeatedly.

I hope this new series has a memorable theme song. TV needs more good shows.