CBS All Access will be premiering the Jordan Peele-produced/hosted reboot of “The Twilight Zone“ on April 1st with not one but TWO episodes, and they’re kicking off the series with a new take on the classic episode, Nightmare at 30,000 Feet. Adam Scott fills the role previously played by William Shatner in the original series and John Lithgow in the film.
Check out the Nightmare at 30,000 Feet episode trailer below, along with the trailer for the Kumail Nanjiani-starring episode titled The Comedian – both premiere April 1st.
The new cast also includes Taissa Farmiga, Zazie Beetz, Betty Gabriel, Seth Rogen, John Cho, Greg Kinnear, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Adam Scott, Alison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, DeWanda Wise, Chris O’Dowd, Amy Landecker, Rhea Seehorn, Lucinda Dryzek, Jefferson White, Ginnifer Goodwin, Zabryna Guevara, James Frain, Jonathan Whitesell, Luke Kirby, Ike Barinholtz, Percy Hynes-White and Steven Yeun.
The new anthology 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.