Having already made two science fiction films about being lost in mind-bending worlds and revelations, TRON Legacy and Oblivion, director Joseph Kosinski is now ready to enter the ultimate place of sight and sound with a single signpost up ahead. He is going into The Twilight Zone.
At least that is what TheWrap is reporting about the director’s scheduled trip into the forbidden. The director is apparently in talks with Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way to direct the picture. This is the most significant news on the story since Matt Reeves (Let Me In) was in discussions in 2011 before heading over to another Rod Serling bran child of a franchise, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
The original Twilight Zone was a landmark television program; as the definitive anthology series, it ran on CBS from 1959 to 1964 with 156 episodes (Serling wrote more than half of them). It was previously adapted into a film with a tragic production by Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante and George Miller.
It remains arguably the best sci-fi show of all time and is certainly ripe for another adaptation.