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Sunday
19Jul2009

DiCaprio's 'Twilight Zone' Hires a Writer

DateSunday, July 19, 2009 at 11:35PM
Last year, Leonardo DiCaprio called dibs on a movie based on the classic sci-fi TV series The Twilight Zone. His Appian Way production shingle has had a way of not following through, however, such as passing up on the live-action Akira adaptation, so I was beginning to wonder about Twilight Zone because we hadn't heard anything in a long, long time.

Enter writer Rand Ravich, who Warner Bros. and DiCaprio have hired to work on the script, according to Variety. That may not be the splashiest name you've heard attached to a high profile project like this, but Ravich seems to be a pretty good choice on paper. In addition to creating the NBC detective show, Life, Ravich wrote The Astronaut's Wife and was an executive producer of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

When the idea of the update was first hatched, it was not supposed to follow the same formula as the doomed 1983 movie and the original show, meaning this won't be an anthology but rather a feature length version of one of the classic episodes.

Anytime we talk about The Twilight Zone, I always mention how far ahead of its time the show and its creator were. I think this is a great idea, especially if they do go back to Serling's original ideas and expand on them rather than just stealing the name. I don't think they'll just use the name, though, since Leo is about as big a fan of the series as I am.

There still exists the possibility that this could wind up an anthology, which I would also be OK with; hell, I'd be fine if they just showed a bunch of old episodes and called that a new movie.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

This sounds like a Johnny Depp helmed project not Leo DiCap...

Johnny would do it REAL justice

Monday, July 20, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterSean

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