Warner Bros. has been working since 2009 to get a new The Twilight Zone feature film into theaters. Now, according to Variety, it’s finally gaining fresh momentum with Christine Lavaf tapped to pen the screenplay for the sci-fi tentpole.
The last major development came in 2013 with Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski in talks to helm the project with Anthony Peckham writing. Previous writers have included Rand Ravich and Joby Harold.
The Twilight Zone is set up at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way where DiCaprio is producing with his partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran.
“The Twilight Zone,” created and hosted by Rod Serling, ran as a series on 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.
The 1983 Twilight Zone feature had four separate storylines. Word has it that Warner Bros. has been developing the movie as a project with a single story line.
The TV series was revived on CBS and in syndication in the 1980s. UPN revived the series in 2002-2003.