"Twilight Zone" Reboot from Jordan Peele in the Works at CBS All Access
by Lesley Goldberg
Nov. 2, 2017


"The Twilight Zone" is entering a new dimension.

CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves announced Thursday during the company's earnings call that CBS All Access is readying a new take on the iconic science fiction anthology. It's unclear at the moment if it's a straight to series order or just development.




Producers CBS Television Studios retained the rights to the original and will exec produce the new take. Sources say the show hails from Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw banner, with Marco Ramirez (The Defenders, Daredevil, Sons of Anarchy) is set to pen the script and serve as showrunner.

CBS All Access declined comment on Peele and Ramirez's involvement as official details have not yet been announced beyond Moonves' initial announcement.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/twilight-zone-reboot-jordan-peele-works-at-cbs-all-access-1050554

They can't remake dopey shows well. How could they possibly not mess this up.

What a disgrace that they have no people with talent that can come up with original ideas.

Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg & Marco Ramirez Board "Twilight Zone" Reboot on CBS All Access
by Nellie Andreeva
December 6, 2017


When CBS boss Leslie Moonves said during the company’s earnings call last month that a reboot of the iconic TV series "The Twilight Zone" was set for SVOD/live-streaming platform CBS All Access, he did not disclose details as deals with creative auspices were still in negotiations.

Those deals now have closed, and the new "Twilight Zone" is being announced officially. It hails from CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films.

Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez will serve as executive producers for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode. Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon will also serve as executive producers.





“Too many times this year it’s felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can’t think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences,” said Peele.

Added Kinberg: “The Twilight Zone was a touchstone in my life. The opportunity to continue its lineage is a dream come true, and I’m so thrilled to be doing it with Jordan, Marco and the team at CBS All Access.”



“The original The Twilight Zone bridged science fiction, horror and fantasy together to explore human nature and provide social commentary in a way that audiences had never seen before,” said Julie McNamara, EVP Original Content at CBS All Access.

“Under the auspices of Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez, and with the creative freedom that the CBS All Access platform affords, this is an incredible opportunity to bring today’s audiences a modern reimagining of this iconic series.”

http://deadline.com/2017/12/the-twilight-zone-jordan-peele-simon-kinberg-marco-ramirez-reboot-cbs-all-access-1202221147/

Will Jordan be acting in it?

How relevant is The Twilight Zone now? (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/a-21st-century-twilight-zone/548618/)
A Twilight Zone theater adaptation in London and a planned CBS All Access revival from Jordan Peele are aiming to capitalize on the relevance of the Rod Serling classic to modern times. “There are countless entries in Rod Serling’s groundbreaking anthology sci-fi series that seem constructed for the 21st-century world, which is presumably why there are so many ongoing efforts to reboot it,” says Sophie Gilbert. She adds: “The question is, can the show still resonate with audiences hardened by the crueler speculative stories of Black Mirror and the more intense paranoia of The X-Files? The paradox of The Twilight Zone now is that it’s steeped in nostalgia and tied up with longing for a simpler time, even though no television show has more expressly warned against the impulse of yearning for the past.”

CBS All Access Bosses on "The Twilight Zone" Status – TCA
by Nellie Andreeva and Dominic Patten
August 6, 2018


What’s the status of "The Twilight Zone" reboot with Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg?

Julie McNamara: We have a room, we have a first season of concepts, outlines, scripts — various stages of all these things — of that 10 eps a season. We are well on our way, and we are going to start production in the next couple of months.




Who is running the series?

David Stapf: Because it’s anthological you don’t need to look at it as who’s the showrunner.

Julie McNamara: From a production standpoint Greg Yaitanes is overseeing that continuity.

https://deadline.com/2018/08/patrick-stewart-star-trek-franchise-expansion-plans-cbs-all-access-executives-interview-tca-1202440492/

Jordan Peele was "terrified" of rebooting The Twilight Zone -- and isn't sure he'll assume the on-camera Rod Serling role (https://variety.com/2018/tv/features/jordan-peele-monkeypaw-prods-twilight-zone-us-1202903254/)
“I was terrified,” Peele tells Variety. “Why would I ever jump into the most established, pristine shoes in all of the genre? I could rip Twilight Zone off and call it something different and not be compared to Rod Serling. So I stepped away from it. And then several months later I got another call" from CBS Television Studios. According to Variety, "Peele has resisted — but not ruled out — stepping into Serling’s on-camera presenter role for the revival. The new series will have someone in that job, speaking directly into camera, teeing up each episode. But Peele worries that his face is too associated with comedy, that his presence would undermine the serious work he’s putting in to do right by Serling’s legacy."

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Sanaa Lathan joins The Twilight Zone reboot (https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/11/sanaa-lathan-twilight-zone/)

She'll appear in an episode titled "Rewind," which is the first episode title revealed from Jordan Peele's CBS All Access series -- but not necessarily the first episode.

I'm 100% with you on that nobody can come up with anything original at all

Am I the only one who thinks this doesn't have to be horrible? I know Hollywood has a bad track record of ruining classic series but it looks like they're putting a lot of effort into this one.

The Super Bowl commercial was pretty good. I think it captured the feel of the original in a modern environment.

Personally I'll withhold judgement until I actually see an episode. Unfortunately I don't know when that'll be since I don't intend to buy CBS All Access for just one show.

Edit: Never mind the show is trash lmao

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How to binge the Rod Serling The Twilight Zone ahead of Jordan Peele's revival (https://mashable.com/article/original-twilight-zone-watch-of-the-week/)

Hulu and Netflix are currently streaming the original series, as Alison Foreman points out: "Watching The Twilight Zone's (https://www.tvtattle.com/shows/the-twilight-zone-1959-series) grainy, black-and-white scenes unfold on a modern device adds to the unsettling yet gripping nature of the series. Watching actors and actresses in the 1960s, many of whom are now deceased, portray horror stories with no knowledge that you would be watching their performances decades later feels at best creepy and at worst voyeuristic," she says. "The sensation that you shouldn't be seeing what you're seeing quickly makes devouring episode-after-episode that much more tempting."

How to binge the Rod Serling The Twilight Zone ahead of Jordan Peele's revival (https://mashable.com/article/original-twilight-zone-watch-of-the-week/)

Hulu and Netflix are currently streaming the original series, as Alison Foreman points out: "Watching The Twilight Zone's (https://www.tvtattle.com/shows/the-twilight-zone-1959-series) grainy, black-and-white scenes unfold on a modern device adds to the unsettling yet gripping nature of the series. Watching actors and actresses in the 1960s, many of whom are now deceased, portray horror stories with no knowledge that you would be watching their performances decades later feels at best creepy and at worst voyeuristic," she says. "The sensation that you shouldn't be seeing what you're seeing quickly makes devouring episode-after-episode that much more tempting."
What are they watching? I don’t see any grain on my Blu-ray set.

Link (https://www.thewrap.com/twilight-zone-chris-odowd-latest-to-join-jordan-peele-led-reboot/)

Less than two weeks before its debut on CBS All Access, “The Twilight Zone” is still bringing more people into the fifth dimension.

Chris O’Dowd will star in an episode titled “The Blue Scorpion,” which also features Amy Landecker. That episode is written by Glen Morgan, who serves as showrunner on the Jordan Peele-led reboot.

The anthology series will launch its first two episodes on April 1, with new installments to be released available weekly on Thursdays, beginning April 1. Peele is executive producing and hosting the series, stepping into the role that original series creator and narrator Rod Serling made famous.

The anthology series’ previously-revealed cast members include Zazie Beetz, Betty Gabriel, Seth Rogen, Ginnifer Goodwin, Tracy Morgan, Ike Barinholtz, John Cho, Lucinda Dryzek, Taissa Farmiga, Greg Kinnear, Luke Kirby, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Rhea Seehorn, Allison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Jefferson White, Jonathan Whitesell, Jessica Williams, DeWanda Wise and Steven Yeun.

“The Twilight Zone” is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele and Kinberg serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes.

Serling created the original series, which ran for 156 episodes from 1959 to 1964, and used socially-conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times. There have been two prior revivals of the classic series. The first reboot aired for 110 episodes on CBS starting in 1985, and a second version, with Forest Whitaker as narrator, ran for 43 episodes on UPN in the early 2000s.

O’Dowd currently stars on Epix’s “Get Shorty” and SundaceTV’s upcoming “State of the Union.”