Back in December, CBS All Access gave a series order to a Jordan Peele-produced reboot of “The Twilight Zone,” one on the greatest television shows of all time. An update this week comes courtesy of a chat between Deadline and CBS All Access execs Marc DeBevoise and Julie McNamara.
“We have a [writer’s] room, we have a first season of concepts, outlines, scripts — various stages of all these things — of that 10 episodes a season,” McNamara told the site. “We are well on our way, and we are going to start production in the next couple of months.”
Greg Yaitanes is overseeing the small screen reboot.
The new series will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele, Kinberg and Ramirez will exec produce for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode. Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon will also serve as executive producers.
“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.