Ben Stiller might direct the new version of The Twilight Zone movie, as suggested by TheInsider. Leonardo DiCaprio‘s production company is working on this project for Warner Bros., who previously made a movie adaptation of the original Twilight Zone series in 1983. This series was created and hosted by Rod Serling.
Ben Stiller, known for directing comedies such as “The Cable Guy,” “Zoolander,” and “Tropic Thunder” along with several episodes of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” hasn’t taken on a new feature film project since his 2016 movie “Zoolander 2,” which received mostly negative reviews.
Since 2008, Leonardo DiCaprio has been associated with The Twilight Zone as a producer, when Appian started working on a movie adaptation of episodes originally written by Rod Serling. (Rod Serling wrote the majority of episodes for The Twilight Zone, and it also included teleplays from Charles Beaumont, E. Jack Neuman, creator of Star Trek Ray Bradbury, sci-fi authors Richard Matheson, and George Clayton Johnson.))
2008 saw discussions between Warner Bros. and the Serling estate over acquiring the rights for the Twilight Zone episodes written by Rod Serling. The plan was to combine these episodes into a single, continuous narrative rather than the episodic format of the movie “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” This anthology film featured segments directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, George Miller, and Joe Dante, with episodes such as “Back There,” “A Quality of Mercy,” “Kick the Can,” “It’s a Good Life,” and “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” being adapted. The film starred Albert Brooks, Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow, and Vic Morrow.
By the year 2011, the director who would later become famous for Batman, Matt Reeves, was tied to a screenplay for The Twilight Zone written by Jason Rothenberg (creator of The 100). From leaked plot details, it appears that Rothenberg’s script involved a test pilot who unintentionally surpassed the speed of light; upon landing his aircraft, he found himself arriving far too late for dinner – an astounding 96 years late. This suggests that this adaptation was intended to be based on the 1961 episode “The Odyssey of Flight 33,” which revolves around a time-traveling commercial airline.
After some time, Reeves left the Twilight Zone production to join Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Subsequently, Joseph Kosinski, who had directed Tron: Legacy and Oblivion, was selected by Warner Bros. to direct the film. Unfortunately, this project did not advance into the fifth dimension. Later, CBS Television Studios revamped The Twilight Zone with a series produced by Jordan Peele for CBS All Access. This show ran for 20 episodes over two seasons between 2019 and 2020 before it was discontinued.
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