#NEW TWILIGHT ZONE TV#
"I think there's always a need for good allegorical storytelling that kind of gets at the demons that, you know, maybe you're allowed to talk about but people don't necessarily like to talk about," said TV critic James Poniewozik. So, is there any need today for "Twilight Zone's" trick of delivering social commentary through storytelling? The days of heavy network censorship are gone now. "I think he knew that he was gonna not make it." "He had a fear of his own mortality," said Jodi. He underwent open-heart surgery, but died in the hospital, at age 50. Serling's four-pack-a-day habit, 14-hour work days, and an inherited cardiac weakness eventually took their toll, in the form of three successive heart attacks. Peele introduces each episode on camera, just as Serling always did, minus the cigarettes. "And then lastly, the power of parable, this notion that when an audience is brought into an engaging story and sets their imagination going, that they'll be left afterward to think about what it's about."
"There's always this, we call it the Serling wink, this sense that something sort of mischievous is at play. What elements of the original have been kept? "Serling and the other writers, they built in reveals, and obviously they built in twists," Peele said. We deal with issues of profiling, and guns in the country." "Yeah, we deal with issues like the price of fame, and racial violence. "People have said that you are a natural choice for this project because Serling also served up helpings of social justice," said Pogue. "We were tasked with this sort of near-impossible feat of following in the footsteps of the greatest show of all time," Peele said.
#NEW TWILIGHT ZONE MOVIE#
Its executive producer is Jordan Peele, who wrote and directed the Oscar-winning movie "Get Out" in 2017, and the new horror movie "Us," which is in theaters now. Once in the 1980s, once in the 2000s, and once starting tomorrow. '" David Pogue and Jodi Serling on the carousel in Rod Serling's hometown, Binghamton, N.Y.Īs a TV series, "Twilight Zone" has been resurrected three times. And that's what prompted him to write 'Walking Distance. He wished he could turn time back and see his dad again. "And when he came back after the war, his dad had passed. "He loved Binghamton this is where his childhood was," said Jodi. It features a carousel, which still runs today in Binghamton, now with commemorative portraits. It's about a man who returns to the idyllic town of his boyhood (inspired by Serling's hometown of Binghamton, N.Y.), and finds it frozen in time as it was back then. "Walking Distance," starring Gig Young, is one of the most personal episodes Serling wrote. It is not a runaway hit, it's not 'Gunsmoke,' and it's a very questionable item as to whether we'll renew it," he said. I think in its best run, 'Twilight Zone' got roughly a 31-32 share, which in television terms, says that it is a mild success. In a 1970 interview, Serling described the early reaction to the show: "You have to gauge that in the strange arithmetic of television, which is very close to insanity. What you may not re member is that "The Twilight Zone" wasn't exactly a hit. And you can't think of "The Twilight Zone" without thinking of Rod Serling, the man who created and hosted it. It was an anthology show of science fiction, horror and fantasy, graced by such future stars as Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Carol Burnett and William Shatner. You can't hear its unmistakable theme music without flashing back to "The Twilight Zone," which ran on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The latest version of "The Twilight Zone," from executive producer Jordan Peele, starts Monday, April 1 on CBS All Access.
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