Having recently secured the directing gig on Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Scott Derrickson has now added another project to his slate, signing on to helm a big screen adaptation of the cult sci-fi anthology series The Outer Limits for MGM.
Derrickson is set to work with Sinister co-writer C. Robert Cargill – a.k.a. AICN’s Massawyrm – to adapt that episode ‘Demon with a Glass Hand’ from celebrated sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison, which is often mistakenly said to have been plagiarised by James Cameron for The Terminator (it was actually the episode ‘Soldier’ at the centre of the plagiarism claims).
The second season episode first aired on October 17th, 1964 with Robert Culp in the lead role, and tells the story of a man with a computerised hand and no memory beyond the past ten days, who has been back in time from a thousand years into the future and finds himself hunted by an alien race called the Kyben.
Originally published June 20, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
