Horror fans, its time to officially get excited. Jordan Peele's reboot of The Twilight Zone just got green-liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
After Jordan Peele's extremely well-received horror film, Get Out, I'm sure he had opportunities thrown at him left and right. The fact that he chose The Twilight Zone reboot (even if it is on the streaming service, CBS All Access), bodes well for the series, and for horror fans in general.
Now, unfortunately, he isn't going to be steering the entire ship; Jordan Peele, Marco Ramirez and Simon Kinberg will serve as executive producers and work together on the premiere episode. But executive producing is nothing to scoff at, and the series is being produced by CBS Television Studios, Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Kinberg’s Genre Films, so they definitely have a vested interest in the series beyond the first episode.
Peele had this to say about bringing the sixty some-odd year old series back now.
“Too many times this year it’s felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can’t think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences.” .
Not that this is the first time the series has been rebooted. The first revival was in 1986, and ran for over 100 episodes. The second time was in 2002, featured Forest Whitaker and lasted over 40 episodes. Let's hope this one begins with a bang and keeps the pedal to the metal. The Twilight Zone can be a Black Mirror-esque satire, or delve into sci-fi, random weirdness or just straight horror, so there is a lot of possibilities here. It sounds like Peele is going to keep riding the horror train, as he is already attached as an executive producer to another anthology style horror series, "Lovecraft Country", currently in development over at HBO.
Bring it on. Get Out was great.
