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Osgood Perkins is Writing and Directing a “Very Far Out” Episode of “The Twilight Zone”!
What’s next for visionary filmmaker Osgood Perkins in the wake of The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and Gretel & Hansel? One of his next projects may be an adaptation of A Head Full of Ghosts, and we’ve also learned this week that Perkins will be heading into “The Twilight Zone” for the second season of the CBS All Access reboot!
During a chat with The Daily Texan, Perkins spilled the beans.
“I wrote and I am directing an episode of “The Twilight Zone” for Jordan Peele and that gang. Jordan Peele’s company and I have been looking into something together for a while. I think I’m the only person who’s written and is directing their episode in an authorship kind of way. So I’m going to do a really kind of bananas meta “Twilight Zone” episode. It’s pretty good.”
Perkins also teased the episode in an interview with Screen Rant that ran last week.
“It’s a very far out thing that I can’t really believe they’re letting me do. But Jordan’s been really supportive of everything that I’m trying, and CBS, somehow, is into it! (Laughs) The next thing you can expect is a really out of sight Twilight Zone episode.”
The second season of the series will also feature an episode written by host/producer Jordan Peele, so it sounds like CBS All Access is bringing out the big guns for this one.
Perkins is also attached to Lionsgate’s Incident at Fort Bragg.
AMC’s horror series “The Terror” wrapped its third season last month, but plans are already in motion for season four.
Executive producer David W. Zucker has confirmed that “The Terror” Season 4 is moving forward in a new chat with ScreenRant, revealing that they’ve “just closed the deal on the book we’re gonna develop next” for the series.
Which novel they’re adapting remains shrouded in secrecy at this stage, however.
That might not seem like much to go on at this stage, but the second season was an original story. Furthermore, there was a lengthy gap between seasons two and three, causing many to speculate that the third season would be the anthology series’ last. Unlike its first two, Season 3 shifted from airing on AMC to a dual Shudder and AMC+ weekly release plan, with neither streamer revealing viewership numbers.
So not only is this confirmation that the series is moving forward, but it won’t be another six years before we see Season 4.
The first season of the supernatural drama, based on Dan Simmons’ novel and aired in 2018, was set on the frigid decks of a Victorian Era sailing ship following a doomed course, while season two, “The Terror: Infamy,” which premiered in August 2019, centered on a malevolent, shape-shifting force that is locked up with prisoners in a Japanese internment camp.
Season 3, “The Terror: Devil in Silver,” tells the story of Pepper – a working class moving man, who through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself.
Dan Stevens (The Guest, Abigail) stars alongside Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, Hayward Leach, and Philip Ettinger.
The six-episode new season is based on Victor LaValle’s novel, The Devil in Silver.
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