
About a year ago
it was announced that
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way would make a new
Twilight Zone movie. They are moving ahead hiring
Rand Ravich, writer and director of “The Astronaut's Wife” and creator of NBC's detective series “Life,” to write a a script based on the iconic “Twilight Zone” TV series. So, the writer search has been ongoing for over a year.
The first announcement last year is that – “The companies are not seeking to remake an episodic movie, as the only big-screen version of the show did 25 years ago, but rather hope to build one continuing story line based on one or more episodes.”
Warners released the previous 1983's “
Twilight Zone: The Movie” with
Steven Spielberg and
John Landis, among others, producing and directing segments.
The “Twilight Zone,” original TV series, ran in the US between 1959 and 1964 – each episode set ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, with a sci-fi twist. Shows always began with an introduction by creator Rod Serling, whose deep voice became The Twilight Zone's trademark.