‘Twilight Zone’ Series Reboot In Works At CBS All Access

Deadline ^ | November 2, 2017 | Dade Hayes and Patrick Hipes

[EdnaMode]

ANOTHER reboot!

[freedumb2003]

This will be a reboot of a reboot.

[Larry Lucido]

So, it will be a reality show.

[Aevery_Freeman]

I sure hope they get some old Sci-Fi mags to steal plot lines from.

Modern Sci-Fi writers seemingly have no imagination.

[OttawaFreeper]

I remember the reboot they did in 1985, complete with Grateful Dead version of the theme, lol. That was on Friday nights in the Dukes’ old slot at 8:00 and then “Amazing Stories” was on NBC on Sunday nights.

[Artemis Webb]

As you point out they’ve tried this before. Even the original Twilight Zone flopped after it’s first few seasons (Rod Serling lost creative control and the show went to 1 hour). You can’t bottle lightning. Besides, the focus won’t be on the story. It will be on “diversity” first, story second.

[rightwingcrazy]

We already lived 8 years in the Twilight Zone.

[Little Ray]

Pathetic.

When will the media pick up something new and worthwhile instead of trying to ‘reboot’ stuff?

Ask nicely and shove enough money at the International Lord of Hate, Larry Corriea, and he might even let the studios create a Monster Hunters International series.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Isn’t it amazing they can’t come with anything new? They are talking about a magnum reboot too.

[plain talk]

Do it in black and white.

[DesertRhino]

Hollywood is incapable of doing anything close to the level of the original. The intellect is gone. They’ll just turn it into political scolding, or into third rate ghost stories.

[Lonely Bull]

Besides, the focus won’t be on the story. It will be on “diversity” first, story second.

I imagine that the twists will align predictably.

[discostu]

Technically you can’t reboot an anthology series. And with anthologies being big right now no reason not to go for it. No reason to let Black Mirror go unchallenged in the world of Twilight Zone knockoffs.

[MeganC]

Whoa. For a moment there I was worried that Hollywood might have an original idea.

That was close.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

This will be another disaster - instead of good science fiction written by real writers, we’ll get more politicized, ham-fisted allegories about whatever liberals are currently hyper-ventilating about.

[packrat35]

CBS All Access is the worst streaming service I ever used. Commercials ever 7 minutes and they lasted for 2 minutes at a pop. Had to call 3 times to cancel the service as it didn’t work online.

Star Trek Discovery (STD) is terrible. I’m talking really really bad.

[Dahoser]

I remember the reboot they did in 1985, complete with Grateful Dead version of the theme, lol. That was on Friday nights in the Dukes’ old slot at 8:00 and then “Amazing Stories” was on NBC on Sunday nights.

That 1985 Twilight Zone reboot was really good. They were mostly, if not completely, original stories. My two favorites are A Matter of Minutes and especially Her Pilgrim Soul.

[Bernard]

The magic of the original Twilight Zone was the almost complete contribution Rod Serling made to the product. But he burned out after 3 seasons or so, and the switch to full hour shows made it that much harder?

Who else could have made a similar contribution to such a show? Maybe Orson Welles. I'm hard-pressed to think of somebody else who could do so many things for a film, and make good results. Who could do that today?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep, again.

And they probably will not be willing to shell out the money to get good writers so it will be another flop.

There are a bunch of writers out there who are good at O'Henry endings which is what a series like that needs.

Instead they will spend all their time preaching at people in the most ham handed way possible.

[alternatives?]

Like the U-boat commander, maybe Hillary will wake up everyday and lose the election.