Cursed by his own hubris. The Scary Door shorts from Futurama have kind of ruined the Twilight Zone episodes for me.

WTF? is that not the worst idea for a twilight zone movie ever? that's one of the worst episodes. I can easily name 20+ episodes that would make a better 90+ min. movie. As a devote Twilight Fan, if Richard Matheson makes this movie he deserves to be shot like a sick horse. It is as if they make a Star Trek movie based around the "Spock's Brain" episode or a Lost movie all about the "Nicky and Paulo" episode. The studio that approves this obviously never seen an episode of twilight zone. Is this the only episode Matheson has ever seen. If you ask anybody their favorite episode, 100% they won't list Death Ship in their top 50.

@olliverkirby: Er, while it's arguable whether this is a good episode or not, Matheson wrote the tv episode, he has no say in the film version.

If you are just trolling, maybe you should read the article next time.

you know what? this is great! I hope the movie does megabux in the box office

imagine if this starts off a 'mine classic Twilight Zone for movies!' bonanza at hollywood=> nerdgasm

horrible idea

@aspiringexpatriate: I miss read it, substitute Matheson for Brandt. (that's what I mean to say)

This was a very good episode. Wasn't it one of the few 60-minute episodes, that allowed for more development and exposition?
I loved seeing Jack Klugman do his thing. Easily in my top 50 favorites.

@olliverkirby: Wrong. There is NO Jack Klugman episode that is bad. Actually, all his episodes are some of the best.

I will go see this movie if it will make them air "The Twilight Zone" as much as possible (and not just the same ten episodes).

How weird... I just saw this episode the other day. I love it. I never really watched T.Z. I was just flipping through the channels one day, caught a few minutes, and got hooked. It was really just a curiosity about Jack Klugman being in a sci-fi show. I wanted to see how he handled sci-fi terminology and ideas.

But yeah... I thought it was good.

Why don't they make "Nightmare" from Outer Limits into a film while they're at it.

John Mayer here.

@olliverkirby: Actually, a Lost movie based on the Nikki & Paulo episode [Exposé] would not be such a bad idea, imnsho.

That episode is arguably the best "standalone" episode of the series so far...

I liked this episode.
I liked how the astronauts were going astroNUTS. (Sorry).
It had several dimensions with the emotional backgrounds of each person, the predestination, the driven nature of the captain to believe, etc.
I think it'll make a good flick.

It's was a great SHORT. So, we're going to get a moive that explores this idea. Maybe they fell through the same time-portal/rift-psycho-manifestation as some of the Lost characters have. How can I be alive and dead at the same time? Ask Schrondinger's cat.

@strangrnstranglnd: Jack Klugman's actually been in a whole bunch of Twilight Zone episodes. I always get a kick out of watching the TZ marathons and seeing the scores of actors, many of whom were not especially famous at the time, and all looking very young (Shatner was in at least two episodes, for instance, and Robert Redford was in another one).

I think that this episode is a pooor choice for a movie, though; it was one of the long-form TZ episodes, and it seemed to me to be over-stretched at 60 minutes.

There are certainly worse things than Hollywood mining the rich veins of the Twilight Zone for film ideas. Imagine the paranoia and suspense of a film version of The Monsters Are Due on Maple street or To Serve Man.

On the flip side, a few years ago someone edited Planet Of The Apes down to thirty minutes, decolorized it and added clips of Rod Serling (who wrote the screenplay) turning it into a perfect episode of The Twilight Zone. It's on Youtube: in 3 parts:

I am not convinced that the character of an original twilight zone episode can be effectively transferred to the big screen in an almost-2-hour format. The premises are so tight (in a sitcom type of way) and somehow more appropriate to their time of production - witness the twilight zone episodes of the late 80s or the movie from the early 80s - vile-ish. I think that the best we have to hope for is a bare-bones plot-type embryo creature of the story being cgi-ed.

By-the-by: does anyone remember the episode with the diner in the middle of nowhere and the customers that cannot leave because of snow? bridge out? and then something happens... and then at the end - the businessman customer reveals a third arm, saying that his alien race is taking over the earth? or has invaded there? and then the counterman one-ups him by revealing the third eye in the middle of his forehead, revealing that indeed it is his (different) alien race that has invaded -- true twilight zone deliciousness... anyone with a title... shoot i am not sure if I got the plot outline anywhere near right...

@designguybrown: "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up."

They made a shitty Sci-Fi movie with Bruce Campbell that had a similar premise.

They'll have to improve on the original to elevate it above something Shyamalan would extrude. All mulling about predestination aside, the ending was telegraphed half-way through the episode.

I could see a neat movie like this, where it was quantum-probablility effects of the FTL drive...

That would probably bomb in the box office, though.
-kle.

@braak: Robert Redford as Death. AWESOME ep.

well i guess this is one step better than rehashing every other movie ever made. They have a bigger library to draw on now of stretching 20 min TV shows in to 90 min block busters.

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