TMC
06-12-2018, 07:47 PM
http://www.agonybooth.com/a-look-back-at-twilight-zone-the-movie-35-years-later-part-1-of-2-64142
Even before this day and age of seemingly endless reboots and reimaginings, the idea of remaking something for the big screen wasn’t (if you’ll pardon this) new. After all, classic series such as Batman, The Munsters, and Star Trek had all appeared on the big screen by the 1980s. In those three cases though, the casts were the same as those of the beloved TV shows the movies came from. By 1983, Steven Spielberg had gotten enough clout to join up with three of his pals/fellow directors, John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Miller to make a feature length movie based on the legendary anthology series The Twilight Zone, which aired on CBS from 1959-1964.
While I plan to go more into what transpired behind the scenes in part two of this article, each member of this quartet directed one of the four segments which comprise the movie. The movie’s prologue and its subsequent first segment, written and directed by Landis, would be original works, while the remaining three segments, directed by Spielberg, Dante, and Miller, respectively, would be remakes of episodes from the series.
Even before this day and age of seemingly endless reboots and reimaginings, the idea of remaking something for the big screen wasn’t (if you’ll pardon this) new. After all, classic series such as Batman, The Munsters, and Star Trek had all appeared on the big screen by the 1980s. In those three cases though, the casts were the same as those of the beloved TV shows the movies came from. By 1983, Steven Spielberg had gotten enough clout to join up with three of his pals/fellow directors, John Landis, Joe Dante, and George Miller to make a feature length movie based on the legendary anthology series The Twilight Zone, which aired on CBS from 1959-1964.
While I plan to go more into what transpired behind the scenes in part two of this article, each member of this quartet directed one of the four segments which comprise the movie. The movie’s prologue and its subsequent first segment, written and directed by Landis, would be original works, while the remaining three segments, directed by Spielberg, Dante, and Miller, respectively, would be remakes of episodes from the series.