TWILIGHT ZONE movie gets a writer?
Announced on my birthday this year was a TWILIGHT ZONE movie, which as I'm a huge fan of the original Rod Serling classics, got me rather worried as even Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller and John Landis couldn't make a really good movie out of the concept in the early 80's. But, there is glimmer hope with a talent like Leonardo DiCaprio spearheading the project for Warner Bros. Back in July, the idea was to put it out to writers to pitch ideas for Twilight Zone-esque themed scripts which could then be adapted from any of the shows over 100 hundred episode storylines or more loosely in the same vein as the general atmosphere of the show. Fast foward to today where Bloody Disgusting today report that Joel Anderson, writer/director of the 2008 horror flick LAKE MUNGO (no, I don't know it either) has entered final talks to scribe the screenplay, so presumably his pitch was the best of the lot. According to the site, LAKE MUNGO was shot in a documentary style and revolved around a teenager whose apparent death sets off a series of paranormal events. It was a very low budget Indie film and Paramount Vantage have already picked up remake rights, hoping for a glossy Hollywood re-imagining. More on this as we get it.