Coming in 2019…
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. Last we heard, production is set to begin later this year with Greg Yaitanes overseeing the small screen reboot, and over on Twitter today, Peele showed off an early teaser that confirms a 2019 arrival.
The teaser also notes that Peele, like Rod Serling before him, will host the reboot!
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) September 20, 2018
Peele told Variety last month, “The realization, for me, was that it was an opportunity to attempt to continue with Serling’s mission. If we approach it without ego and sort of bow to Serling, that will hopefully suffice for our fellow ‘Twilight Zone’ fans but also bring back a show that I think is needed right now. Because it’s a show that has always helped us look at ourselves, hold a mirror up to society.”
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.