The Twilight Zone -- new film in development
07-20-09, 04:34 PM
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The Twilight Zone -- new film in development
From Variety:
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."
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."
07-20-09, 04:51 PM
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07-20-09, 05:38 PM
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Re: New Twilight Zone movie in the works
As long as don't let Steven Spielberg anywhere near the film, I'm interested.
07-20-09, 05:48 PM
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07-20-09, 06:25 PM
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Re: New Twilight Zone movie in the works
If this does well, maybe we could get a new series that would actually be done well this time. The original will always be king, but the 80's series was really good in it's own right. The newer series from UPN from a few years back was simply atrocious.
07-21-09, 12:13 AM
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Re: New Twilight Zone movie in the works
It would be a dream if HBO rebooted The Twilight Zone.
as for a new film, sounds cool. Especially if structured like the first film version. I would get...
John Carpenter
Robert Zemeckis
Richard Kelly (maybe)
Spike Jonze
as for a new film, sounds cool. Especially if structured like the first film version. I would get...
John Carpenter
Robert Zemeckis
Richard Kelly (maybe)
Spike Jonze
10-15-11, 03:54 PM
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The Twilight Zone (2014?) D: Kosinski?
Just in from Variety:
Warner Bros. has tapped Matt Reeves to helm "The Twilight Zone."
Leonardo DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way banner along with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Ireland. Jason Rothenberg penned the script.
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I really can't even fathom how this is going to turn out.
Warner Bros. has tapped Matt Reeves to helm "The Twilight Zone."
Leonardo DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way banner along with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Michael Ireland. Jason Rothenberg penned the script.
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I really can't even fathom how this is going to turn out.
10-15-11, 05:01 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
I don't know about this either. I mean I like all three versions of the series and the movie is okay but it's obvious that this is either going to be remakes of some of the classic segments and putting them into a movie format or an anthology film trying to cash in on The Twilight Zone name. I personally feel something like The Twilight Zone works better as a tv show anyways.
10-15-11, 06:03 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
New Twilight Zone Movie Lets In Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves
Submitted by Brendon Connelly on October 15, 2011 – 3:27 pm (2) comments
I’m not sure I’d approach a Twilight Zone adaptation without making it an anthology. This, however, is exactly what Warner Bros. are planning, promising “a single freestanding story” in the “big science fiction action movie” mode.
I’m sure the recurring appeal of the original show, much like Tharg’s Future Shocks or Tales of the Unexpected, is in knowing that the story you’re about to watch will have some kind of kink or nifty hook but it’s so popular now for features to work this way – The Shyamalan Effect, maybe – that unless you can repeat this trick over and over, you’re not making it clear this is “your thing”.
And, more importantly, Twilight Zone stories weren’t about expanded character arcs, they were about unusual incidents. Can you tell a Twilight Zone story over 90 minutes and it not end up feeling off-form or stretched?
So, whatever this new movie ends up being, it won’t be The Twilight Zone as we know it.
Still, it’s coming. And as of today, Matt Reeves is the director. That is, if he wants to sign on the dotted line – Deadline are reporting, specifically, that Reeves is Warner Bros. pick and that negotiations will begin “early next week”.
Something in the back of my mind tells me that Reeves and co. are going to try and give the title a new meaning and actually have a “twilight zone” in the narrative. Whatever a “twilight zone” is. Perhaps it’s something to do with the edge of nightfall, rolling around the globe, day after day?
Submitted by Brendon Connelly on October 15, 2011 – 3:27 pm (2) comments
I’m not sure I’d approach a Twilight Zone adaptation without making it an anthology. This, however, is exactly what Warner Bros. are planning, promising “a single freestanding story” in the “big science fiction action movie” mode.
I’m sure the recurring appeal of the original show, much like Tharg’s Future Shocks or Tales of the Unexpected, is in knowing that the story you’re about to watch will have some kind of kink or nifty hook but it’s so popular now for features to work this way – The Shyamalan Effect, maybe – that unless you can repeat this trick over and over, you’re not making it clear this is “your thing”.
And, more importantly, Twilight Zone stories weren’t about expanded character arcs, they were about unusual incidents. Can you tell a Twilight Zone story over 90 minutes and it not end up feeling off-form or stretched?
So, whatever this new movie ends up being, it won’t be The Twilight Zone as we know it.
Still, it’s coming. And as of today, Matt Reeves is the director. That is, if he wants to sign on the dotted line – Deadline are reporting, specifically, that Reeves is Warner Bros. pick and that negotiations will begin “early next week”.
Something in the back of my mind tells me that Reeves and co. are going to try and give the title a new meaning and actually have a “twilight zone” in the narrative. Whatever a “twilight zone” is. Perhaps it’s something to do with the edge of nightfall, rolling around the globe, day after day?
Ugh! This angers me!
10-15-11, 06:27 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
Meh, can't be any worse than the first movie.
I don' think it necessarily needs to be an anthology as long as it's a decent mindfuck it'll be alright.
The question is, will they cast Jennifer Jason Leigh?
I don' think it necessarily needs to be an anthology as long as it's a decent mindfuck it'll be alright.
The question is, will they cast Jennifer Jason Leigh?
10-16-11, 01:00 AM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
As much as the first two stories suck, the original Twilight Zone film is awesome and it would have been great to see another anthology from the same "quality" of directors as that film had. To be able to really create anything they'd want makes for some really great possibilities that just weren't available to the directors the first time around.
Twilight Zone works best in it's Aesop's fables fashion of quick stories and this single storyline only befits the Outer Limit style of story where it was always about the journey than the destination.
Twilight Zone works best in it's Aesop's fables fashion of quick stories and this single storyline only befits the Outer Limit style of story where it was always about the journey than the destination.
12-19-12, 01:04 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
Unrelated to the movie but CBS is also trying to relaunch the TV series, that one will be spearheaded by Bryan Singer.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/brya...bs-tv-studios/
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/tv-talk/607...an-singer.html
http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/brya...bs-tv-studios/
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/tv-talk/607...an-singer.html
12-19-12, 05:59 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
The original Twilight Zone went to an hour-long (single-story) format for a shortened season. Serling himself said that the show worked best in a half-hour format.
Ours is the perfect half-hour show... If we went to an hour, we'd have to fleshen our stories, soap opera style. Viewers could watch fifteen minutes without knowing whether they were in a Twilight Zone or Desilu Playhouse.
Last edited by digidoh; 12-19-12 at 06:06 PM. Reason: Too orbvious
12-19-12, 06:55 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
And I'd also like to point out: highly intelligent, well crafted dialogue with the "snap, crackle, and pop" (as Jack Klugman called it). Not even the 80s and 00s versions can really claim to have that either.
In short, I wouldn't bet on a Twilight Zone anthology movie that would include stories like "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" or "Eye of the Beholder". And certainly not "A Game of Pool". The best they would do is "Living Doll".
08-16-13, 05:13 PM
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re: The Twilight Zone (2014?) D:Kosinski?
Joseph Kosinski is about to enter The Twilight Zone. The Tron helmer is in negotiations to direct the big-screen redo of the sci-fi property for Warner Bros.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing via their Appian Way banner, which is based at Warners.
A number of writers have taken a crack at the screenplay, including Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes). The project is now being redeveloped for Kosinski. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Created by Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone began as a TV series that ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Subsequent TV series were revived in 1985 and 2002. The sci-fi classic, which revolves around paranormal and futuristic storylines, also spawned a 1983 film starring John Lithgow.
Scott Bloom is executive producing the new film version.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing via their Appian Way banner, which is based at Warners.
A number of writers have taken a crack at the screenplay, including Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes). The project is now being redeveloped for Kosinski. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Created by Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone began as a TV series that ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Subsequent TV series were revived in 1985 and 2002. The sci-fi classic, which revolves around paranormal and futuristic storylines, also spawned a 1983 film starring John Lithgow.
Scott Bloom is executive producing the new film version.