Sci-Fi Leonardo DiCaprio enters "The Twilight Zone"

[Dragon_316ca]

@TheInSneider:

TRON: LEGACY helmer JOE KOSINSKI in negotiations to direct THE TWILIGHT ZONE for Warner Bros.

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/colum...ki-talks-direct-twilight-zone-movie-wb-111396

 

[terry78]

Hnmm....interesting.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Well there goes any interest this huge Twilight Zone fan had in the film.

 

[MrMaooz]

I was never a fan, but I saw a few episodes. 20,000 feet above or whatever it's name was with William Shatner was really good.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

tower of terror the greatest twilight zone episode that never was lol

 

[nite-owl]

The best thing I can say about Kosinski as a director. Is that he is one hell of a production designer.

 

[dark_b]

i dont think he would writte it. way to many complained about the writting in Tron and Oblivion. he would direct someone elses script.

 

[Lynchenberg]

Am I the only one who absolutely LOVED the 2002 revival hosted by Forest Whitaker? It was extremely underrated in my opinion.

I enjoyed some episodes a lot, the ones where they're taken to the Mormon-like village and are turned into well...I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. But it was creepy alright. In any case, SPOOOOKY STUFF! I preferred the 80s revival though, and nothing beats the original.

Also, who here loved Night Gallery? I like sci-fi and fantasy, but I LOVE horror so I actually preferred it to TTZ despite loving that series.

 

[jacobed]

I think Kosiniski is a pretty decent director. He's not a great script writer and Tron Legacy did not have the greatest script either. Give him a good script and he'll give you a great movie.

 

[Sawyer]

Kosinski getting the job doesn't turn me off, but the idea of Bryan Singer getting a new series going gets me way more excited.

 

[MadVillainy]

Well at least we know that the movie will look gorgeous.

Kosinski is a pretty good director, he really has an eye for visuals. However, he's not good at handling a story. Not terrible but not that good and that's where his last 2 movies fell short to me (although I own Tron LEgacy)

 

[Solidus]

I have to agree, I'm fine with him directing it, I think he has great talent with that. I just don't think he should write any of it.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I would be 100% cool with this decision, I think the guy is an amazing talent but I feel he has yet to truly find that one project to fully showcase it.

 

[samsnee]

I enjoyed some episodes a lot, the ones where they're taken to the Mormon-like village and are turned into well...I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. But it was creepy alright. In any case, SPOOOOKY STUFF! I preferred the 80s revival though, and nothing beats the original.

Also, who here loved Night Gallery? I like sci-fi and fantasy, but I LOVE horror so I actually preferred it to TTZ despite loving that series.

It's been years. I'm sure it's ok to spoil at this point.

 

[Doctor Jones]

As long as the script is good then I'm fine with it. Plus I won't be able to have to look at anymore damn boring sterile looking production design so that's a plus.

Maybe it's one of those so strange choices it actually could work.

 

[MrMaooz]

‘Twilight Zone’ Movie Reboot Gets a New Writer; Won’t Have an Anthology Format

We might still have a ways to go, before the planned Twilight Zone movie reboot actually becomes a reality. Director Joseph Kosinski boarded the slow-moving project as director a couple weeks back; yet, it could be anywhere from next year to 2016 and beyond, as far as when he might start principal photography. Not that such quibbles and unsettled matters have prevented our editorial team on the Screen Rant Underground podcast from submitting their own pitches, as far as the mind-bending storyline basis goes – for this newest expedition into “the fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man” (to quote Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling).

Appian Way heads Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are teaming alongside Warner Bros. on the 21st century Twilight Zone movie, having previously recruited such writers as Joby Harold (Edge of Tomorrow) and Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes) to take a stab at putting together a script. For those unaware, Serling’s original 1959 TV show and its subsequent spinoffs feature episodic stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, typically concluding with an ironic twist that offers some form of social, political or moral commentary.


Variety is reporting that WB has tapped Aron Eli Coleite to put together a fresh Twilight Zone script tailor-made for Kosinski, as opposed to revising an earlier draft. Moreover, Coleite’s screenplay is going to feature a single central narrative, rather than a collection of stories that directly interweave with one another, parallel each other thematically, or are linked through some other means (see: the format of recent horror anthologies V/H/S and V/H/S/2). That will set Kosinski’s Twilight Zone movie apart from the 1983 film adaptation, which includes segments directed by John Landis (the prologue and “Time Out&#8221, Steven Spielberg (“Kick the Can&#8221, Joe Dante (“It’s a Good Life&#8221 and George Miller (“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet&#8221.
Coleite previously served as a writer/co-showrunner on multiple seasons of Heroes, in addition to having worked on the crime-mystery series Crossing Jordan and the found-footage TV show The River. The latter, in particular, is one of the multiple short-lived series that’ve attempted to spin an intriguing and mysterious mythology during the post-Lost age of modern television; despite that, the show-runners’ efforts yielded mixed results at best. Nonethless, Coleite seems to possess the proper qualifications to tackle a Twilight Zone movie, as far as his sci-fi/fantasy genre screenwriting area of expertise is concerned.

The same goes for Kosinski, whose futuristic sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion (starring Tom Cruise) has a storyline that often unfolds like a feature-length Twilight Zone episode. Kosinski has two Disney sci-fi projects – the untitled TRON: Legacy sequel (a.k.a. TRON 3) and the remake of cult 1970s title The Black Hole – that are further along in the writing stage of development than Twilight Zone right now. That is to say, we’ll have to wait and see what effect, if any, the Twilight Zone reboot gaining a screenwriter has on Kosinski’s plans (he’d previously been hinting that TRON 3 could start production in 2014).

Are you more or less excited to see The Twilight Zone, now that we know the movie reboot won’t feature the anthology format used for the 1983 film version

http://screenrant.com/twilight-zone-movie-reboot-writer-format/

 

[TheDreamMaster]

tower of terror the greatest twilight zone episode that never was lol

Man, I love that at Disney World. It all feels so genuine too.

I'm interested to see this if it either does something new, or adapts new stories to be updated. I have the complete box set of the show, and have been watching through them lately, so I'd like to see this happen and make the Twilight Zone something great again. You know its weird, watching old shows like that, I've always felt like I would feel like I was watching these things in a time capsule, that the 50's and early 60's would look so different from today. And yet honestly, with the exception on modern technology, the Twilight Zone feels as current now to me as any TV show I've enjoyed watching. I really love everything I've seen so far.

Edit: no anthology format? Eh, not exactly sold yet. I mean they made that Tower of Terror movie way back, but I never knew if that was any good.

 

[Rocketman]

I don't know how I feel about that.

Having a two-hour "episode" of a supernatural story pretty much feels like M. Night Shyamalan's whole career. He essentially made two-hour Twilight Zones.

Unless this movie completely changes directions from the show and does something truly unique, like having the story explore what The Twilight Zone itself is - maybe scientists "discover" an alternate dimension they call "The Twilight Zone." Otherwise, I'm not sure why it should even be called The Twilight Zone.

If this is what they're doing, you could just take any supernatural film of the past 10 years, put the 30-second Twilight Zone theme intro at the beginning of it, and then have a 30 second intro narration from some star, and then a 30 second outro, and voila, it's a Twilight Zone movie.

 

[mongoose-mania]

I don't know how I feel about that.

Having a two-hour "episode" of a supernatural story pretty much feels like M. Night Shyamalan's whole career. He essentially made two-hour Twilight Zones.

Unless this movie completely changes directions from the show and does something truly unique, like having the story explore what The Twilight Zone itself is - maybe scientists "discover" an alternate dimension they call "The Twilight Zone." Otherwise, I'm not sure why it should even be called The Twilight Zone.

If this is what they're doing, you could just take any supernatural film of the past 10 years, put the 30-second Twilight Zone theme intro at the beginning of it, and then have a 30 second intro narration from some star, and then a 30 second outro, and voila, it's a Twilight Zone movie.

I agree with all of this. I'm not really interested in a single-narrative film. It's kind of like when the series turned into an hour-long drama in the fourth season; it proved that the stories worked better in a shorter format because they don't need to be padded and pack a stronger punch. A single two-hour story will just feel like any other sci-fi/fantasy film. Kind of pointless.

 

[Heretic]

Personally, I still can't get over why te SySy channel doesn't have a Twilight Zone (or Outer Limits, or Tales From the Dark Side etc etc)...

But...as far as movies go...I'd rather a full length movie rather than anthology. In fact, they should have a yearly release schedule...maybe even use the name to buy the rights to already completed movies that would fit in well.

 

[Sawyer]

Personally, I still can't get over why te SySy channel doesn't have a Twilight Zone (or Outer Limits, or Tales From the Dark Side etc etc)...

But...as far as movies go...I'd rather a full length movie rather than anthology. In fact, they should have a yearly release schedule...maybe even use the name to buy the rights to already completed movies that would fit in well.

They have it every July 4th and New Years. Then again, I'd probably be more upset over it if I didn't have the DVDs.

 

[Heretic]

They have it every July 4th and New Years. Then again, I'd probably be more upset over it if I didn't have the DVDs.

And I watch it every time.

I kind of meant a weekly series though...

 

[Sawyer]

You mean like a new version altogether?

Bryan Singer's working on it. Hope it works out, too.

 

[66 Face]

I enjoyed some episodes a lot, the ones where they're taken to the Mormon-like village and are turned into well...I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't seen it. But it was creepy alright. In any case, SPOOOOKY STUFF! I preferred the 80s revival though, and nothing beats the original.

Also, who here loved Night Gallery? I like sci-fi and fantasy, but I LOVE horror so I actually preferred it to TTZ despite loving that series.

I liked Night Gallery too. Serling was just the man. Can you imagine seeing TZ back around 1960? Peoples heads must have exploded.

My favorite episodes are...
A Stop at Willoughby
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
The Howling Man
The Obsolete Man
Time Enough at Last
Eye of the Beholder
The Masks
The Silence (an insanely bad ass eps)
Uncle Simon

 

[NosfeRomas]

But...as far as movies go...I'd rather a full length movie rather than anthology..

Meh, we already have plenty unofficial Twilight Zone full length movies.

You just have to make the anthology format work, connect each story with the other and have it be a part of a greater scheme or plot. Doing it in black and white and mimicing the 50s acting and directing is the way to go IMO. I just can't see a modern version of The Twilight Zone. Colour really puts me off of the revivals. And NO REMAKES !