It’s been years since Paramount+’s TV reboot of The Twilight Zone quietly ended, however the anthology series could also be coming again to the massive display.
Per Jeff Sneider, Warner Bros., which holds movie rights for the franchise, is Severance government producer and lead director Ben Stiller to direct a brand new movie. Varied creatives have tried at it through the years, together with Matt Reeves and Joseph Kosinski. However in line with Sneider, Stiller will be the man WB and manufacturing firm Appian Method have wanted to lastly get the ball rolling on this movie. The actor-director is a fan of the anthology present and beforehand cited it as an affect on Severance, as much as and together with a season two episode named after Twilight’s 1960 episode “The After Hours.”
The 1983 Twilight Zone film had 4 segments, however this new movie will reportedly simply have one. Sneider claims one supply informed him the story can be supernatural and middle on a fighter pilot assigned to a rocket that achieves time journey, which delivers him to a utopia 125 years sooner or later. The reporter pressured this might simply change: whereas Stiller’s allegedly been on board for “roughly six months,” it stays an open writing project (OWA), which means any screenwriter may come on board and run with that premise or suggest their very own new take.
Sneider additionally acknowledged that if Stiller is directing this film, it’ll be a methods out. Together with the third season of Severance, he’s starring in a fourth Fockers film due vacation 2026 and directing the Seventies crime drama Bag Man. Nonetheless, we’ll report extra on this potential Twilight Zone film as information about it comes out.
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