J.J. Abrams Bad Robot To Develop Rod Serlings Final Screenplay Into Event Series
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
Thirty eight years after Rod Serlings death, his final screenplay is heading to the screen. J.J. Abrams Bad Robot Prods. has acquired the rights to The Twilight Zone creators unproduced last feature script The Stops Along The Way. The project will be developed into an event limited series through Bad Robots deal at Warner Bros. TV and taken out into the marketplace. Details about the premise are being kept under wraps. Serling talked about the project in his final interview four months before his death when he was asked if he had a script he has special feeling for. I just wrote The Stops Along The Way, which is, I think, a lovely script, he said.
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Serling wrote and produced a number of TV and feature screenplays, including Rod Serlings Night Gallery, Planet Of The Apes, and Requiem For A Heavyweight, but he is best known for his Twilight Zone anthology series, which was just named one of the top five Best Written TV Series of all time by the Writers Guild of America, West. A reboot of the TV classic is in the works at CBS TV Studios with X-Men director Bryan Singer at the helm.Event/limited series are red-hot at the moment, with four greenlighted in the past month alone, Foxs 24: Live Another Day and Wayward Pines, FXs Fargo and HBOs Criminal Justice. Bad Robot has four series on the air next season, returning Revolution and Person Of Interest and upcoming Almost Human and Believe. Code Entertainment, which reps the Serling Estate, made the deal with Bad Robot.
