More casting news for Jordan Peele and CBS All Access’ reboot of “The Twilight Zone” today, as Deadline reports that DeWanda Wise (above, “She’s Gotta Have It”) and Jessica Williams (2 Dope Queens) will star in an episode. Lucinda Dryzek, Jefferson White and Jonathan Whitesell will also be appearing in that same episode.
Previously announced cast includes Steven Yeun, Greg Kinnear, John Cho, Jacob Tremblay, Allison Tolman, Riz Ahmed, Kumail Nanjiani, Sanaa Lathan and Adam Scott.
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.