There’s been a lot of interest in directing The Twilight Zone. We reported a few days ago that Warner Bros wanted Chris Nolan, but if he passed on it, Michael Bay, Alfonso Cuaron and Rise of the Planet of the Apes director Rupert Wyatt were also being considered (Harry Potter’s David Yates was also in the running but had decline).
Now it seems the studio has chosen their man, with Cloverfield and Let Me In’s Matt Reeves hired to reboot the long-running franchise.
While previous incarnations of The Twilight Zone, including the ill-fated 1980s film and the various different versions of the television series, have all been anthologies of different stories, Jason Rothenberg’s script for this reboot is a stand-alone big budget sci-fi action thriller that plays into the mythology of the original show. It’s difficult to see how this can really be Twilight Zone if it’s only one story – but then, in Hollywood branding is everything, so I presume that’s the thinking here!
Warner Bros. hopes to have Matt Reeves signed soon and the script completely finished for a summer 2012 shoot. That’ll mean some shaking up of Reeves’ schedule, as he’s already attached to make This Dark Endeavor, The Passage and 8 O’Clock in the Morning, although none of them has a start date as yet.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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