The New Trailer For The Jordan Peele ‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Is Here, And It Looks Bonkers
Get ready to have your brains scrambled.
The Twilight Zone has earned the reputation as being one of those naff old black and white shows that only play on TV during the middle of the day on a Wednesday, watched exclusively by pensioners and kids chucking a sickie from school.
But that’s not fair. Although the original series premiered some 80 years ago, it’s still as terrifying as ever. Episodes like the frequently-satirised ‘Nightmare At 20,000 Feet’, in which a boggle-eyed William Shatner must watch while a horrifying demon only he can see starts mucking with the wing of his plane, or ‘The Eye Of The Beholder’, in which a bout of plastic surgery is revealed to be distinctly unearned, are as chilling now as when they were first aired.
Now, following in the original show’s proud tradition of scaring the ever-loving piss out of viewers young and old, Jordan Peele has put his distinctive brand on the series with a terrifying new reboot.
First up, looks like Peele is reviving a couple of the series’ most classic stories.
‘Nightmare At 20,000’ feet is getting an update, with Adam Scott playing a stressed-out passenger flying to Mars, rather than across the US. Then there’s the updated version of ‘It’s A Good Life’, another infamous original episode in which a young kid with the power to telepathically alter the world around him becomes the evil, defacto leader of a small town (looks like in Peele’s version, he becomes the President, which would probably be a step up from the current administration, to be quite honest.)
As a kid I would wait all day in anticipation for the Twilight Zone rerun every night at 11p, and had to keep the volume low so I wouldn’t get caught staying up so late. Mind was blown every time. It’s still my favorite show and I can’t believe I got to be a part of it… https://t.co/ficva7V0T9
— Adam Scott (@mradamscott) February 21, 2019
But the series also looks filled with new stories too, tales of intrigue and mystery starring everyone from Steven Yeun of The Walking Dead, to Tracy Morgan, who spends the trailer murmuring prophetic nothings about the nature of reality and the horror of being alive. Sounds fun!
The Twilight Zone premieres on American television on the first of April — unless the whole thing has been an elaborate April’s Fool joke.