EXCLUSIVE:
The Twilight Zone
is eying a return to primetime.
X-Men
director
Bryan Singer
has closed a deal to develop, executive produce and possibly direct a reboot of Rod Serling’s classic. The drama series project, now in early stages, is set up at
CBS TV Studios
, which owns the rights to the original series. Search is underway for a writer to pen the new
Twilight Zone
pending finalizing the deal with the Serling estate. The project has not been pitched to networks yet, but CBS is an obvious destination since CBS TV Studios only supplies CBS and the CW on the broadcast side and CBS carried the original series as well as the first revival. In addition to the TV series project, there has been a feature
Twilight Zone
remake in the works at Warner Bros. with Matt Reeves
attached to direct
from a script by Jason Rothenberg.
The original
Twilight Zone
series ran on CBS from 1959-1964. CBS also aired a remake, which ran from 1985-1989. The most recent series reboot, hosted by Forest Whitaker, premiered on UPN in 2002 and lasted one season. Singer, who directed the pilot for Fox’s long-running medical drama
House
, which he executive produced, recently helmed and exec produced another reboot of a classic series, NBC’s
Munsters
-themed
Mockingbird Lane
pilot, which aired as a Halloween special. On the feature side, Singer is back at the helm of the
X-Men
franchise with the upcoming
X-Men: Days Of Future Past
after directing and producing the first two installments in the superhero movie series. He is with WME and attorney Dave Feldman.
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