EXCLUSIVE The 60th anniversary of The Twilight Zone arrives next month and the late, great Rod Serling is clearly a man in demand more than four decades after his death at age 50 in 1975.
The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS in the waning months of the Eisenhower era, but more than a half-century later the brand is…
When Jordan Peele describes the once-in-a-lifetime chance to revive The Twilight Zone brand by following in the footsteps of producer-host-writer Rod Serling, he makes it sound like a dream come true. That’s not to say it was always a good dream – sometimes it felt like it was chasing him instead of vice…
EXCLUSIVE: Another classic Rod Serling anthology series is getting a revival. In a competitive situation, Syfy has landed a re-imagination of Night Gallery, from Teen Wolf creator/executive producer Jeff Davis and Midnight, Texas executive producer David Janollari. Picked up for development, the project will be…
The all-too-familiar and excitingly creepy theme song of The Twilight Zone is ready to transport us to another dimension as Jordan Peele’s reimagining of the classic Rod Serling series began production Oct. 1 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The announcement of the comes 59 years after the premiere of the original…
Refresh for updatesRoseanne Barr says the tweet that got her sitcom Roseanne canceled – the one likening former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to a Planet of the Apes character – was not only not racist, but was a condemnation of anti-semitism.
“Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes,” Barr tweeted tonight. “It was about…
Thirty eight years after Rod Serling‘s death, his final screenplay is heading to the screen. J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Prods. has acquired the rights to The Twilight Zone creator's unproduced last feature script The Stops Along The Way. The project will be developed into an event limited series through Bad Robot’s deal…
EXCLUSIVE: Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has been chosen by Warner Bros to direct The Twilight Zone, the Jason Rothenberg-scripted thriller based on the classic Rod Serling TV series. Negotiations will get underway early next week, but this is an assignment that was coveted by a number of top…
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Meieran and his Bureau of Moving Pictures has acquired rights to make a movie about Rod Serling, the Twilight Zone creator who left behind a remarkable legacy of sci-fi and fantasy work. Stanley Weiser, who wrote Wall Street with Oliver Stone, will script the movie. Serling’s widow Carol Serling will…
Jason Rothenberg (The Sparrow) has landed the assignment to write The Twilight Zone, a new feature version of the Rod Serling classic ’50s TV series that Warner Bros is developing with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way. Details are scant, but the expectation is they will take some of the original stories written for the…
