Jordan Peele To Executive Produce CBS 'The Twilight Zone' Reboot (engadget.com) 64
A couple of weeks ago, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves revealed that the network was planning to reboot the classic fantasy science-fiction TV series "The Twilight Zone." Few details about the show were available at that time, but we have now learned that Jordan Peele, director of the mystery/thriller Get Out, will co-executive produce the show. Engadget reports: The show will be produced by CBS Television Studios, with Simon Kinberg, Marco Ramirez, Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon also executive producing. Peele, Kinberg and Ramirez will collaborate on the premiere episode. "Too many times this year it's felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can't think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences," Peele said in a statement.
In The Zone (Score:4, Insightful)
I always preferred The Outer Limits. Now with Dark Mirror, is Twilight Zone really relevant? It won't be the same without Rod Serling, anyway.
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Black Mirror*
Knew reading about that 'Dark Mirror' movie the other day would confuse me.
Re:In The Zone (Score:5, Insightful)
I suggest that you just wait for the new one to come out, give it 3 weeks to see how it plays out. Could be good. Could be lame. Won't know until you know.
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And I'm a don't be a moran!
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Back in the mid-1980's, there was a Twilight Zone reboot that was actually quite good. Better than the original to my mind. It lasted two years, as is typical for intelligent shows. There was another edition in the early 2000's that was cheap horror and lasted only a couple of years because it was just lame.
Intelligent shows last two years and lame cheap horror shows last only a couple years. Got it.
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Now with Dark Mirror, is Twilight Zone really relevant?
Assuming you mean Black Mirror, I would think that the Twilight Zone would entirely relevant for those of us who feel that Black Mirror is terrible. I'm a huge Twilight Zone fan, both the black and white original and the revival, as well as a huge Outer Limits fan, both the black and white original and the revival.
In my opinion the three shows have their own style, the latter having an interweaving story within stories during it's revival, while Black Mirror is less 'Twilight Zone' and more 'Ham Fisted Ju
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Yeah, I was pretty shocked to find out just how bad Black Mirror really is, after all the hype. They take on the most obvious plot tropes and beat them into the ground. I tried to like it, but could not hack just how hack each episode was. I gave it a season and a half and kept thinking, "Maybe I was just in a bad mood and I'll try one more episode" and it always disappointed.
Not News (Score:1)
Peele was announced as Producer back on November 2, and it was discussed extensively back then.
Peele's background is mostly Sketch Comedy, which doesn't seem to be any kind of match, and that was discussed as well. "The Twilight Zone" was an Anthology Writer's Show.
However, I'm willing to give it just a chance, because a Black-Oriented Science Fiction series hasn't been done before.
We'll see.
Or not.
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...a Black-Oriented Science Fiction series hasn't been done before.
What makes you think this will be "Black-Oriented"? 'Get Out'? I did RTFA, but saw nothing about racial topics in the show.
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Your arguments is as silly as complaining that science-fiction movies have been done for decades and we should stop making new ones.
I guess you could complain and say "damnit, this week's episode is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike last week's episode."
In the case of Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits (and now Black Mirror too), this is differe
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If you realise it's not because someone's favourite politician didn't win, but because the one that did win is an absolute joke, you might start to understand the world you live in a bit more.
What? (Score:4, Insightful)
Twilight Zone is an episodic series with no continuing storyline. How in the world is it possible to "reboot" that?
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Twilight Zone is an episodic series with no continuing storyline. How in the world is it possible to "reboot" that
They'll rehash all of the classic episodes. Except instead of it using ham radios, televisions, and news papers, it'll cellular be phones, computers and 3d printers. The guy that flys his biplane forward in time from WWI to the 50's will now be in a WW2 Era fighter. The aliens will now be fancy cgi rather than a guy in a rubber suit, and a cgi Rod Sering will preach about the dangers of smoking. Wait, that last one would be pretty good, so it won't happen
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Some of the remakes over the years did redo some of the story's. Also William Shatner can do the same thing on airplane today as was done back then.
Black Mirror (Score:3)
no mention about Black Mirror, but i suspect the success of that show also has something to do with the return (ofcourse, you don't mention the competition).
i know BM and TZ are not the same, but a lot of similarities are there and is targets pretty much the same crowd.
They should invite Charlie Brooker as guest writer (Score:2)
They should invite Charlie Brooker as a guest writer, if they really want to get off to a good start, his work with Black Mirror has been really good.
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He probably has a contract that prevents such things from happening.
Nuclear holocaust (Score:2)
Well Nuclear holocaust / post nuclear apocalyptic scenarios or what ever we want to call it, seemed to be popular in the old series, at least the ones I have seen. It seems like we are heading into times where it could be a popular theme again.
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do one about NK super mutant solders (who knows what they really have and what stuff they have tested on there own people there)
Nope...not PAYING to watch it (Score:3)
or showtime not the web thing. (Score:2)
or showtime not the web thing.
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It's a problem if 3% of the population is being portrayed as being 30% of the population.
If stories, TV shows and movies had similar proportions to reality, people wouldn't complain (as much).
Imagine a TV show set in Tokyo where 75% of the characters are white, 23% of the characters are black, 1% of the characters are jewish and the last 1% are asian - but half of those are from India.
Oh, and 120% of the characters are gay just to piss of mathematicians.
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Are you dense or just trolling? Surely you replied without reading my Tokyo TV show example.
I don't care if ALL the different kinds of people are represented but people have to stop bitching if they feel like their category is being under-represented when the real numbers says otherwise. In my example, the numbers I gave make no sense whatsoever because at least 99% of the characters should be asian.
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Star Trek Discovery is crap because it's just a weird science-fiction TV show that happens to have taken elements from Star Trek and pasted them on weird shit that never got mentioned once in ST:TNG, ST:DS9 or ST:Voyager.
"Spore drive"? Give me a fucking break. And Klingons that look like constipated fish-men? Fuck that.
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Imagine a TV show set in Tokyo where 75% of the characters are white, 23% of the characters are black, 1% of the characters are jewish and the last 1% are asian - but half of those are from India.
Imagine? Seems pretty much like what Hollywood typically does.
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Or "It was a good life" with the character dying because of a twist. Maybe ask M. Night Shyamalan to help with the script.
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You know what would be really funny? A reboot of this TV show [wikipedia.org].
This should be genius... (Score:4, Funny)
The first episode will star Jayqwellin, D-Nice, and Ay-Ay-Ron.
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Race issues (Score:1)
I loved his show and hated his movie. Is there any reason to think this won't be full of race baiting?
I honestly thought "Get Out" was supposed to be a comedy until I listened to his commentary
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Ugh (Score:2)
Am I the only one that can't reliably parse that headline. WTF is it saying?
Is Jordan Peele talking to an executive or is Jordan Peele an executive who is going to produce something?
awesome (Score:2)
When it comes to Peele (Score:3)
I prefer Emma to Jordan.