The long-gestating Twilight Zone movie has gained a new writer. According to Variety, Warner Bros. has hired I Human’s Christine Lavaf to pen the screenplay for the feature film.
Unlike the previous film made in 1983, this new Twilight Zone will be one single story as opposed to an anthology. Since 2009, a slew of writers and directors have boarded and left the project, the most recent being Oblivion’s director Joseph Kosinski in 2013. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing with Jennifer Davisson Killoran through his Appian Way banner with WB. LaVaf was also involved in WB’s writer’s room for its Monster-verse and contributed to Godzilla: King of Monster‘s script.
Created and hosted by Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone originally ran for 156 episodes from 1959 – 1964, mixing sci-fi and horror elements with timeless cautionary tales. The series has been revived twice, in both 1984 and 2002. The first feature film included sequences from the original series remade by directors including John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller.
There’s no planned release date or director yet, but be sure to keep checking back here for updates. In the meantime, tell us what you would like to see from a new Twilight Zone movie…
Originally published June 21, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
