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Bryan Singer To Spearhead ‘Twilight Zone’ Series Reboot For CBS TV Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 10:31am PSTTags: Bryan Singer, CBS TV Studios, The Twilight Zone
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The Twilight Zone is eying a return to primetime. X-Men director Bryan Singer has closed a deal to develop, executive produce and possibly direct a reboot of Rod Serling’s classic. The drama series project, now in early stages, is set up at CBS TV Studios, which owns the rights to the original series. Search is underway for a writer to pen the new Twilight Zone pending finalizing the deal with the Serling estate. The project has not been pitched to networks yet, but CBS is an obvious destination since CBS TV Studios only supplies CBS and the CW on the broadcast side and CBS carried the original series as well as the first revival. In addition to the TV series project, there has been a feature Twilight Zone remake in the works at Warner Bros. with Matt Reeves attached to direct from a script by Jason Rothenberg.

The original Twilight Zone series ran on CBS from 1959-1964. CBS also aired a remake, which ran from 1985-1989. The most recent series reboot, hosted by Forest Whitaker, premiered on UPN in 2002 and lasted one season. Singer, who directed the pilot for Fox’s long-running medical drama House, which he executive produced, recently helmed and exec produced another reboot of a classic series, NBC’s Munsters-themed Mockingbird Lane pilot, which aired as a Halloween special. On the feature side, Singer is back at the helm of the X-Men franchise with the upcoming X-Men: Days Of Future Past after directing and producing the first two installments in the superhero movie series. He is with WME and attorney Dave Feldman.

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EXCLUSIVE! Matt Reeves Is Warner Bros’ Pick For ‘Twilight Zone’ Movie

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday October 15, 2011 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Jacob Aaron Estes, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Kenneth Oppel, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Reeves, Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Let Me In and Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has been chosen by Warner Bros to direct The Twilight Zone, the Jason Rothenberg-scripted thriller based on the classic Rod Serling TV series. Negotiations will get underway early next week, but … Read More »

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CBS And Netflix Ink Deal For Library Content

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 22, 2011 @ 11:13am PSTTags: Flashpoint, Medium, Netflix Straming Deal, The Twilight Zone, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

CBS Corp. and Netflix just announced a two-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement that will allow library CBS series to be streamed via Nexflix. Included in the deal are dramas Medium, Flashpoint, the original Hawaii Five-0, the different incarnations of Star Trek as well as Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone. On … Read More »

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Scribe Enters ‘Twilight Zone’ For Warner Bros And Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday October 20, 2010 @ 1:31pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio Appian Way, Movie Deals, Movies, Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

Jason Rothenberg (The Sparrow) has landed the assignment to write The Twilight Zone, a new feature version of the Rod Serling classic ’50s TV series that Warner Bros is developing … Read More »

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