View Full Version : "Twilight Zone" the movie gets a Writer


Brian Damage
07-19-2009, 11:22 PM
Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way are moving ahead on a "Twilight Zone" movie, hiring Rand Ravich to pen a script based on the iconic TV series, which melded fantasy, science-fiction and horror elements.
Studio first set up the project with the Warner-based shingle a year ago.

Ravich's feature credits include directing "The Astronaut's Wife" and exec producing "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." He also created NBC's detective series "Life."

The original "Twilight Zone" series ran for five seasons starting in 1959 on CBS, with Rod Serling creating the skein and writing more than half of the 156 episodes.

Warners released the previous bigscreen incarnation of the property, 1983's "Twilight Zone: The Movie," with Steven Spielberg and John Landis producing and directing segments.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006171.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Zoneboy
07-19-2009, 11:57 PM
Thanks, Brian! :wave:

MickeyMac
07-20-2009, 02:31 PM
:eek: They are making another Twilight Zone movie. Wasnt the first one bad enough ohno:

Adamantium
07-20-2009, 11:28 PM
:eek: They are making another Twilight Zone movie. Wasnt the first one bad enough ohno:

And poor Vic Morrow lost his life because of the movie.

Parts of the film were okay, I liked the opening with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. It was all downhill from there.

I have a hard time accepting any "Twilight Zone" that's not the 1959-1964 original series.

MickeyMac
07-21-2009, 11:39 AM
I have a hard time accepting any "Twilight Zone" that's not the 1959-1964 original series.



Same here.

Tiffster
10-13-2009, 06:06 PM
i know the original was bad and the acting was horrible; but perhaps this one will do alot better. Its prob not gonna be "scary" or anything like that because its from Warner Bros. so its gonna be ... "Light"

But who knows maybe they'll have some episodes in there that were really good.

videoJoe
10-14-2009, 02:38 PM
Well take heart Zone fans, there might be some hope yet. I just came back from Burbank where I attended the Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Convention, and got to spend some quality time with George Clayton Johnson (see my new avatar pic). George is in the process of refilming Twilight Zone episodes and creating new ones, for use as webisodes on the internet. He gave me a copy of his recently filmed A Game of Pool. When I say recently, I mean as in the last year. Not the UPN series. George directed the episode himself and I have to say, he did a bang up job. There are no sets. Just lighting and first-rate acting.

He also shared that he is in the process of working on a series that would center around Sunnyvale Resthome and the Kick the Can concept, where older people would be able to relive their younger lives.

I also received a copy of the Twilight Zone Roundtable discussion, which features George, H.M. Wynant, Peter Mark Richman, and others, and it's clear from that alone that George has the ambition and energy of someone a quart of his age, which is a young 80.

Best, Joe

Zoneboy
10-14-2009, 03:21 PM
Well take heart Zone fans, there might be some hope yet. I just came back from Burbank where I attended the Twilight Zone 50th Anniversary Convention.

Best, Joe


Sounds like you attended the Hollywood Collector's Show where many of the stars from The Twilight Zone were present. There was no actual 50th Anniversary Twilight Zone Convention that I'm aware of