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Jordan Peele To Executive Produce CBS 'The Twilight Zone' Reboot (engadget.com)
A couple of weeks ago, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves revealed that the network was planning to reboot the classic fantasy science-fiction TV series "The Twilight Zone." Few details about the show were available at that time, but we have now learned that Jordan Peele, director of the mystery/thriller Get Out, will co-executive produce the show. Engadget reports: The show will be produced by CBS Television Studios, with Simon Kinberg, Marco Ramirez, Win Rosenfeld and Audrey Chon also executive producing. Peele, Kinberg and Ramirez will collaborate on the premiere episode. "Too many times this year it's felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can't think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences," Peele said in a statement.
I always preferred The Outer Limits. Now with Dark Mirror, is Twilight Zone really relevant? It won't be the same without Rod Serling, anyway.
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Shit is easy, they will mop it up.
Peele was announced as Producer back on November 2, and it was discussed extensively back then.
Peele's background is mostly Sketch Comedy, which doesn't seem to be any kind of match, and that was discussed as well. "The Twilight Zone" was an Anthology Writer's Show.
However, I'm willing to give it just a chance, because a Black-Oriented Science Fiction series hasn't been done before.
We'll see.
Or not.
First of all, yet another re-clone of a series that already has been resurrected how many times? Just stop doing the repeats, OK? Make something new, goddammit.
"Too many times this year it's felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can't think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences," Peele said in a statement.
Oh, so the series is going to be a bunch of thinly veiled Trump-bashing episodes. As if THAT genre isn't being thoroughly covered at the moment. I'll say this, the amount of emotional pain being felt by people just because their favorite career politician didn't win one election is really something to see. All of these outbursts in public, agitated beyond belief, I would not have really believed it was possible, particularly among erudite people with advanced educational credentials. I was assured so often that temper tantrums like this were the mark of a low IQ or lack of education, by the same people who are now acting out.
We already went through this, too: remember Chimpy McBu$hitler? King George Bush the Second, who was as bad as Hitler? Trump doesn't even compare, he just recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. WORST. HITLER. EVER.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Twilight Zone is an episodic series with no continuing storyline. How in the world is it possible to "reboot" that?
no mention about Black Mirror, but i suspect the success of that show also has something to do with the return (ofcourse, you don't mention the competition).
i know BM and TZ are not the same, but a lot of similarities are there and is targets pretty much the same crowd.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
They should invite Charlie Brooker as a guest writer, if they really want to get off to a good start, his work with Black Mirror has been really good.
Well Nuclear holocaust / post nuclear apocalyptic scenarios or what ever we want to call it, seemed to be popular in the old series, at least the ones I have seen. It seems like we are heading into times where it could be a popular theme again.
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So another remake. Can the American entertainment "industry" actually produce *anything* original any more ?
I'll answer that myself: "No".
Put it on "free" TV....CBS...you ain't Netflix by a long shot.
They can do another sequel to "It's a Good Life (original series)", "It's a Good Life (TZ move)", and "It's Still a Good Life (2002 series)". Of course it'll need Lennier .. er.. Bill Mumy.
It's just going to be a bunch of feminism, diversity, and SJW lecturing.
Tired of being called out on your bad behavior, eh?
I wonder if anyone in Hollywood has known the pleasure of having an original idea in the last 50 years.
Errant hate mongering doesn't really appeal to me.
The first episode will star Jayqwellin, D-Nice, and Ay-Ay-Ron.
He probably has a contract that prevents such things from happening.
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It's a problem if 3% of the population is being portrayed as being 30% of the population.
If stories, TV shows and movies had similar proportions to reality, people wouldn't complain (as much).
Imagine a TV show set in Tokyo where 75% of the characters are white, 23% of the characters are black, 1% of the characters are jewish and the last 1% are asian - but half of those are from India.
Oh, and 120% of the characters are gay just to piss of mathematicians.
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There are people different than me finally getting represented! I'm sad!
You know, I never did bother searching up on Charlie Brooker to see who he was and such.
Just did it now. Holy fuck, I never realized it was THAT Charlie Brooker. I love that guy even more now.
I glanced at the headline and my mine read "Jordan Peele to execute cbs twilight zone robot" That would be more interesting to watch.
I loved his show and hated his movie. Is there any reason to think this won't be full of race baiting?
I honestly thought "Get Out" was supposed to be a comedy until I listened to his commentary
Am I the only one that can't reliably parse that headline. WTF is it saying?
Is Jordan Peele talking to an executive or is Jordan Peele an executive who is going to produce something?
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Are you dense or just trolling? Surely you replied without reading my Tokyo TV show example.
I don't care if ALL the different kinds of people are represented but people have to stop bitching if they feel like their category is being under-represented when the real numbers says otherwise. In my example, the numbers I gave make no sense whatsoever because at least 99% of the characters should be asian.
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I'm super excited about this and he really knows what he's doing but this was sort of announced a month ago. It's not exactly "news" at this point but whatever, Slashdot.
I prefer Emma to Jordan.
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people have to stop bitching if they feel like their category is being under-represented when the real numbers says otherwise.
Oh, you mean like white people are doing these days ?
Star Trek Discovery was one of the new shows most condemned for being so called "feminist SJW crap". Now lets examine the REAL numbers.
Women form about 50% of the world population;
African americans form about 13% of the population of the US;
Gays and lesbians form around 11-13% of the general population, depending on the sources;
I don't know the exact number, but Asians form a large part of the world population.
Now if you examine the dozen or so main characters of Star Trek Discovery so far, I counted ONE african american, ONE gay couple, ONE asian woman who didn't last long, a few aliens (portraid by white actors), and they pretty much nailed it on the male/female ratio.
Where's the overrepresentation of certain categories in there ? If anything, white males are STILL over represented (albeit slightly).
Could it be that YOU have been so conditionned to see white heterosexual males grossly over-represented in films and tv that you FEEL they are under-represented whenever you see a representation of races/gender/sexual orientation that more closely matches real numbers ?
Star Trek Discovery is crap because it's just a weird science-fiction TV show that happens to have taken elements from Star Trek and pasted them on weird shit that never got mentioned once in ST:TNG, ST:DS9 or ST:Voyager.
"Spore drive"? Give me a fucking break. And Klingons that look like constipated fish-men? Fuck that.
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Imagine a TV show set in Tokyo where 75% of the characters are white, 23% of the characters are black, 1% of the characters are jewish and the last 1% are asian - but half of those are from India.
Imagine? Seems pretty much like what Hollywood typically does.