‘Twilight Zone’ Series Reboot In Works At CBS All Access

[Enterprise is Great]

Deadline.com

CBS boss Leslie Moonves said during the company’s earnings call with investors today that it is rebooting the iconic TV series The Twilight Zone to stream on CBS All Access, its SVOD service that features the new Star Trek: Discovery.

Hollywood Reporter

Sources say the show hails from Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw banner, with Marco Ramirez (Netflix Marvel dramas The Defenders and 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 revealed beyond Moonves' initial announcement.

Ugh. Too bad it will be on CBS All Access. I will probably wait until at the episodes are up on CBSAA and then pay for a month and then binge it like I'm doing with Star Trek Discovery.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Not the first nor the last Twilight Zone remake series. This is a show that relies entirely on writing since there's a totally different story every week, and I will be pleasantly surprised if they bring on good enough writers for it to work.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Well, its nice to have a possible reason to keep that other than Star Trek Discovery.

 

[Greg Cox]

Not the first nor the last Twilight Zone remake series. This is a show that relies entirely on writing since there's a totally different story every week, and I will be pleasantly surprised if they bring on good enough writers for it to work.

It's being done by the guy who made GET OUT, which was really well done, so I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As long as it's better than the 2002 version, I'm in.

 

[Gary7]

The 1980's reboot wasn't all that bad. They had some pretty nifty ideas attempted. I loved the episode "Word Play" (3rd episode of the 1st season), where Robert Klein suddenly loses his ability to understand English.

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I agree, the 2000's reboot was terrible. Sorry Forrest Whitaker.

But nothing can really touch the tremendous stories and nuances of the originals. Some were real hardcore intellectual challenges. Many had very entertaining stories with fine acting. Not too many duds. Always loved the twists of irony (like the broken glasses for the bank clerk who finally had all the time in the world to read whatever he wanted).
I recently re-watched "The Arrival" and couldn't remember what it was all about. It had an amazing "deja-vu" like quality to it. And then it suddenly hit me -- Malaysian flight MH370 -- totally, inexplicably lost and never found.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

What, again?!? I guess they just gotta try it every couple decades or so.

I love the original but the 2002 remake was pretty awful, with the sole exception of "It's Still a Good Life."

Actually...

It would be really cool if they used this series to follow-up on the sort-of cliffhanger ending of "It's Still a Good Life" and show us what Anthony & his daughter have been up to since their return 15 years ago.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I guess no one ever learns that every attempt to remake/reboot TTZ (including that awful movie) never works or earns the creative or cultural status of the original. Oh well, its their money to burn.