Will Christopher Nolan be engaged in “Twilight Zone”?
Full-length version of the series "Twilight Zone" will not look like its predecessor in 1983, where four different directors have filmed four different stories. Warner plans to focus on one subject and to invite the eminent director. Among the major candidates are Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuaron.
Warner owns all rights to the series, which went on U.S. television from 1959 to 1964. Among about 155 episodes left for this time, there were stories about giant man-eating aliens, of a certain community in which all the great thought ugly, and Contact Cleaners, won power three hundred people. Full-length "Twilight Zone" in the early '80s shot John Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Steven Spielberg, but the film has collected very modest cash at the box office.
Attempts to start another film version were made long ago. The last of these is dated 2008. Then the "Twilight Zone" company interested Leonardo DiCaprio, Appian Way, but since the film did not hear. In parallel, the project has started about the creator of the series Serlinge Rode, but film version of the show, until recently, has become the heroine of the news.
Now, sources say, the leading candidate in the director's chair of the project is Christopher Nolan. But despite the good relationship of studio with Nolan, the director may refuse for two reasons: lack of time or similarity of the scenario of "Twilight Zone" with his film "Inception".
If the movie will shoot Michael Bay, for the director of "Transformers" it will be the first experience with Warner. The same sources claim that Bay really likes the script of Jason Rotenberg, but the only obstacle to the "Twilight Zone" could be a project evaluation of Bay - a black comedy about a bodybuilders “Pain and Gain”.
Alfonso Cuaron is now finalizing his protracted "Gravity", after which director is completely free.
In addition to three directors Warner is eyeing the other directors. Among them are David Yates and Rupert Wyatt, whose "Rise of the planet's of the apes," unexpectedly became a hit at world cinemas, gathered over 400 million dollars box office.