Today we’ve learned that production has officially begun on the first season of the new CBS All Access Original Series, “The Twilight Zone,“ a reboot of the classic series being executive produced and hosted by Get Out mastermind, Jordan Peele. Principal photography began Monday, October 1 in Vancouver, 59 years after the premiere of the original series.
A video tonight hypes up the start of production, while also revealing that Gerard McMurray (The First Purge) is currently on set to direct an episode! Check out the teaser below.
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.
“The Twilight Zone” will premiere on CBS All Access in 2019.