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Warner Bros. Determined To Enter ‘The Twilight Zone’
The studio won’t give up on the franchise, which is a breath of fresh air for horror fans.
Says Variety, The Twilight Zone is gaining momentum at Warner Bros., which has tapped Aron Eli Coleite to pen the sceenplay for the sci-fi tentpole (which also means probably a different story and/or take than previously reported).
The studio has been in talks with Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski to helm The Twilight Zone, set up at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way where DiCaprio is producing with his partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Michael Ireland is also producing.
Warners has been developing the project since 2009 as a potential tentpole. While the 1983 feature Twilight Zone had four separate storylines, this pic will have one story with various elements from the “Twilight Zone” universe.
Coleite has been an active TV writer with writing and producing credits on “The River,” “Heroes” and “Crossing Jordan.” His end-of-the-world spec script “The End” was set up last year at Warner Bros. with Drew Barrymore on board to direct.
Anthony Peckham, Rand Ravich and Joby Harold have worked previously on iterations of the screenplay for The Twilight Zone.
“The Twilight Zone,” created and hosted by Rod Serling, ran as a series CBS from 1959 to 1964. The show melded fantasy, science-fiction and horror elements with Serling serving as the exec producer and writing or co-writing 92 of the show’s 156 episodes along with delivering monologues at the beginning and end of each episode.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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