"The Twilight Zone" is still one of my favorite television shows even though its run ended almost a decade and a half before I was born. So many talented actors got their start on the show including Burgess Meredith, Robert Redford, Dennis Hopper and William Shatner. Plus it's ability to reflect society while simultaneously scaring and entertaining was a triumph in itself. Hollywood even managed to bring the film to the big screen in 1983. The movie involved four separate vignette's and I believe is one of the most severely overlooked movies of the 1980s.
Well it looks like Tinseltown wants old Rod Serling's* classic television show back on the big screen. "The Hollywood Reporter" reveals that Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski's is in negotiations to helm the film. The film with be produced under Leonardo DiCaprio's banner Appian Way via Warner Bros. No details have been released on a possible plot line as of yet.
Kosinski's two films have both been science fiction so I think this movie fits well with the director. I hope they do a vignette type film like the 1983 version but this time make all the stories somehow interconnected.
No timetable yet on principle photography or a release date.
*Fun fact: My great uncle Don graduated high school with Rod Serling, the show's creator.
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