How Jordan Peele’s 'The Twilight Zone' plans to honor the original — but deliver a modern spin
Adam Scott plays passenger Justin Sanderson in"Nightmare at 30,000 Feet," an early episode from the new CBS All Access revival series"The Twilight Zone." By Michael Cavna Michael Cavna Writer/artist for Comic Riffs, covering visual storytelling, cartoon art/illustration, comedy/satire and animation.
To affirm the original show’s modern influence, simply look to Peele’s new horror hit, “Us,” which had a record-setting $71 million domestic debut last weekend. For that film, Peele was inspired by the 1960 “Twilight Zone” episode “Mirror Image,” in which a female character eerily sees her doppelganger in a mirror and comes to believe that this evil double is trying to replace her.
“What we landed on was that in some very fundamental ways, ‘The Twilight Zone’ isn’t broken,” says Win Rosenfeld, an executive producer on the new show and the president of Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, which has a deal with Universal.What the new show’s creatives appreciated was that the original series’s craftsmanship — from story to performance — was so often impeccable.
Serling penned 92 of the series’s 156 scripts, which exposed stories culled from science fiction and genre fiction to the masses, Kinberg says, including from such talents as Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Reginald Rose, Earl Hamner Jr., Ray Bradbury and George Clayton Johnson. For the reimagining, he says, it became “almost a requirement to be bold and provocative rather than just do a karaoke version of something we all love.”It was in line with Serling’s mission to tackle social themes, including war — he had seen action firsthand as a World War II paratrooper — and racism.
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