Jordan Peele’s reboot of “The Twilight Zone” could be adding two major pieces of talent, according to a rumor at The Hashtag Show, who says The Predator‘s Jacob Tremblay (above) and Venom‘s Riz Ahmed (below) are reportedly circling the upcoming series.
They would all appear in the third episode, “Kid President“, in which Tremblay would play the kid president, while Ahmed would play his campaign manager.
The new series, which is eyeing a 2019 debut, will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Peele and Kinberg serve as executive producers along with Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes.
Serling created the original series, which ran for 80 episodes from 1959 to 1964, and used socially-conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times. There have been two prior revivals of the classic series. The first reboot aired for 110 episodes on CBS in 1985, and a second version, with Forest Whitaker in Serling’s role, ran for 43 episodes on UPN in the early 2000s.
