The Twilight Zone: Everything to Know About Jordan Peele’s CBS All Access Series

Black Mirror is often hailed as The Twilight Zone reboot of our time, but now the creepy sci-fi series itself is coming back for another generation, courtesy of Get Out and Us mastermind Jordan Peele. He will both produce and host the new series for CBS All Access, and he’s already lining up a stacked cast for the new series, which is expected to pick up the mantle of the social horror that has remained such a cultural mainstay since its run in the late ’50s and early ’60s.

Here’s what we know about The Twilight Zone 2.0 so far.

Jordan Peele knows this is a very big deal. When his new version of The Twilight Zone was announced, Peele expressed a lot of respect and admiration for the man who’d previously carried the show, saying, “Rod Serling was an uncompromising visionary who not only shed light on social issues of his time, but prophesied issues of ours. I’m honored to carry on his legacy to a new generation of audiences as the gatekeeper of The Twilight Zone.”

It’ll tackle the social issues of now. Just as the socio-horror anthology series shed creepy light on all the weird things happening in its day, the new Twilight Zone will also draw from the modern experience. As Peele told TV Guide in 2017, “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.”

The cast is full of favorites already. Although details on the plot points of the series have so far been kept close to the chest, we do know some of the major television stars who will feature in certain episodes of the new Twilight Zone. Sanaa Lathan will appear in an episode called “Rewind” that is expected to be a reboot of an episode from the 2002-03 revival with the same name, featuring a person who can turn back time with a tape recorder. Adam Scott will star in a segment that’s sure to exacerbate that fear of flying, titled “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet.” The segment is expected to breathe modern life into the iconic 1963 episode featuring William Shatner as a man who loses it after spotting something on the wing of an in-flight plane. Meanwhile, Kumail Nanjiani will star in an as-yet-unnamed episode written by Key & Peele scribe Alex Rubens, and John Cho will be joined by Allison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay and Erica Tremblay for an episode called “The Wunderkind.”

It’s coming sooner than later. Peele’s reboot of The Twilight Zone is expected to debut on CBS All Access in the fall of 2019. Production on the series officially began in October 2018.

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