Jordan Peele is rebooting The Twilight Zone.

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He's actually kind of a perfect choice to do that, Get Out had a very Twilight Zone type feel to it, I just hope it's not an ALL African American version; There needs to be an equal amount of African Americans and Caucasian actors for the series to work. I've always said if they got some of the top science fiction and horror people to reboot the show that it could wind being even better than the original, here's hoping they find a lot of talent to put the thing together.
 

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I don't mind an anthology series of the weird and wacky, but the Twilight Zone was Rod Serling and vice versa.

I think the right person could fill Serling's shoes, that's not to say that Serling wasn't a genius, though. He revolutionized television and the way people look at it, without Serling there would be no Twin Peaks, no X-Files, no LOST.

What impresses me most about the original Zone is that it came out when there was a glut of namby pamby shows that depicted 1950's America (Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, etc) as a wonderful place, but the Zone took that concept and turned it on it's head (see The Shelter) depicting America as a place that was not so nice, a place where things lurked in the dark.
 

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I quite like the movie, it has one of my favorite opening scenes of all time, very Stephen King-ish.
Myself and some friends went to the cinema to watch the movie when it was released. Decided it would be fun to take some magic mushrooms first! Weird experience LOL
Not to be a downer but did you know that Vic Morrow and those two children were killed filming The Twilight Zone movie. They were decapitated by the helicopter. It was very sad when it happened.
 

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The other day I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone called "You Drive" written by Earl Hamner, Jr. He was the writer that created The Waltons and Falcon Crest and, it turns out, he wrote seven additional episodes for TZ. This episode was about a man who flees a hit-and-run and is haunted by his car. It obviously predates Christine but it is a fun episode to compare and wonder if it influenced King.
 

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What impresses me most about the original Zone is that it came out when there was a glut of namby pamby shows that depicted 1950's America (Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, etc) as a wonderful place,
I Love Lucy depicts apartment life in NYC at the time. Not so "namby pamby" as one might think. The Ricardos and the Mertzes were always struggling with or arguing about money. As for Leave It to Beaver, yes the show depicted an idyllic American family, but did you know The Munsters was created by the same guys who created Leave It to Beaver as a way of depicting an "ethnic" family to deal with outsider issues?

As for a reboot of The Twilight Zone, there's just no way. It was a product of the times, minds and personalities of that day. I'm more than happy to watch endless reruns of the original.
 
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I Love Lucy depicts apartment life in NYC at the time. Not so "namby pamby" as one might think. The Ricardos and the Mertzes were always struggling with or arguing about money. As for Leave It to Beaver, yes the show depicted an idyllic American family, but did you know The Munsters was created by the same guys who created Leave It to Beaver as a way of depicting an "ethnic" family to deal with outsider issues?

As for a reboot of The Twilight Zone, there's just no way. It was a product of the times, minds and personalities of that day. I'm more than happy to watch endless reruns of the original.

Ah, I didn't know all that. Now that I think about it the modern day equivalent of The Twilight Zone is probably Black Mirror, it's kind of a comment on where we're headed as a society.
 

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It's never worked & never will. Even the often maligned Night Gallery (got the DVDs) was better than anything done since. However, there was actually a very good, short lived' anthology series called 'Night Visions', hosted by Henry Rollins. Not a great choice for host probably. They used a lot of good actors, and some of the episodes were scary as hell -- this one with Bill Pullman was especially disturbing. The ending shook me up!

 

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It's never worked & never will. Even the often maligned Night Gallery (got the DVDs) was better than anything done since. However, there was actually a very good, short lived' anthology series called 'Night Visions', hosted by Henry Rollins. Not a great choice for host probably. They used a lot of good actors, and some of the episodes were scary as hell -- this one with Bill Pullman was especially disturbing. The ending shook me up!

Thanks, I don't have time to watch it now but plan on it later.
 

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The other day I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone called "You Drive" written by Earl Hamner, Jr. He was the writer that created The Waltons and Falcon Crest and, it turns out, he wrote seven additional episodes for TZ. This episode was about a man who flees a hit-and-run and is haunted by his car. It obviously predates Christine but it is a fun episode to compare and wonder if it influenced King.

Yeah, I see lots of seeds planted in Mr. King's mind from this episode or that episode--however like Shakespeare, when King writes--he sets a new standard.

My favorite Earl Hamner Jr. episode called The Hunt.

I found an interview:

https://www.rodserling.com/EarlHamner.htm
 

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Talk about irony! This evening TCM ran a spot featuring Vic Morrow promoting The Blackboard Jungle. Immediately following that, Ben Mankiewicz came on with the evening's guest programmer, John Landis. Landis introduced the film he chose, Paths of Glory, about a military commander's indifference to vast losses of the lives entrusted to him in his quest for personal success. The Vic Morrow thing may have been intentional on someone's part, but the creepy thing is Landis was probably totally oblivious to the irony of all this. It also seems Morrow sensed years earlier how he was to die. Aint No Way to Go: The Twilight Zone The whole thing was so creepy and ironic it would have been material for an episode of The Twilight Zone.
 

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This tried this before with Forest Whitaker as the host. It won't work. There are too many other TZ-inspired series out there like Black Mirror competing for attention. Also, I read somewhere that the plan is to remake episodes of the original show. Wow. Didn't see that one coming. Pure laziness.
 

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I think the right person could fill Serling's shoes, that's not to say that Serling wasn't a genius, though. He revolutionized television and the way people look at it, without Serling there would be no Twin Peaks, no X-Files, no LOST.

I don't know about Lost, but is Twin Peaks not more influenced by Peyton Place than Twilight Zone? The makers of Twin Peaks even screened Peyton Place before developing the town.
And X-files is mostly inspired by Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

If you love Twilight Zone you must see The Similars (Los Parecidos/2015) by Isaac Ezban. It's on Netflix here, it's fantastic - one of the best unknown films I've seen on Netflix.

Los Parecidos (2015) - IMDb