After the massive success of his Apple TV+ series, “Severance,” Ben Stiller is reportedly being courted to direct another genre-bending project for Warner Bros., a new feature film take on “The Twilight Zone.”
The report updating on the “Twilight Zone” movie comes to us from TheInsneider, who revealed Stiller’s involvement, along that Leonardo DiCaprio‘s production company Appian Way is involved as well.
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This comes after the short-lived series revival that was produced by Jordan Peele (who also hosted and narrated) and Simon Kinberg at CBS Television, Monkeypaw Productions, and Genre Films, airing from 2019-2020. It only landed two seasons before it was ultimately nixed by CBS All Access (rebranded as Paramount+).
The previous feature film from 1983 had an anthology format that saw Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller, and John Landis directing segments. We can’t mention the original without pointing out that “Twilight Zone: The Movie” was infamous for the deaths of Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen after a helicopter crash while filming the Landis segment; the incident shook the industry in similar way to the death of Brandon Lee while shooting “The Crow.”
Stiller is currently working on a third season of “Severance” for Apple, gearing up for a reunion with Robert De Niro in a new “Meet The Parents” sequel from John Hamburg, and will have a cameo in Netflix‘s “Happy Gilmore 2.”
Extremely promising, as “Twilight Zone” would be very much in Stiller’s wheelhouse, but we’re still waiting for the trades and the studio to chime in.
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