Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is joining with Warner Brothers to produce a new movie based on the “The Twilight Zone” series.
A combination anthology series that mixed mystery, horror, fantasy, sci-fi and political commentary elements, the original “Twilight Zone” debuted in 1959 and ran for five seasons. It was revived twice on television–in 1985 and 2002–though neither experienced the acclaim and popularity of the original. The 2002 episodes air regularly on My Network TV, while the 1985 segments recently made it into Sci-Fi’s long-running “Twilight Zone” marathon, held yearly on the Fourth of July and New Year’s Weekend.
A 1983 film was released to a domestic gross of $29.5 million. It featured four separate stories–three based directly on classic “Twilight Zone” episodes and one original segment thematically based on several “Zone” stories.
Little was said about the format for the new film, which will be written by Rand Ravich.
