Special: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Movie
The Twilight Zone Podcast
Tom Elliot
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2013
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind, |
| 0:15.0 | a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. |
| 0:19.0 | That's the signpost up ahead, Your next stop, the Twilight Zone. |
| 0:21.6 | Whenever I have interviewed someone on the Twilight Zone podcast, I've usually asked them a certain question or a variation on that question and the question is can the |
| 0:39.9 | Twilight Zone exist without Rod Sailing? We are at a time now whether the Twilight Zone |
| 0:47.1 | movie that has been in development hell for so long is sort of creeping closer to |
| 0:53.8 | actually becoming a reality. |
| 0:56.0 | And it kind of got me to thinking in Rod Serling's lifetime was this ever a possibility and what would he have done? |
| 1:04.0 | I mean I've mentioned Planet of the Apes many, many times as being what I consider to be the first Twilight Zone movie, but what if he'd made an actual Twilight Zone movie? |
| 1:15.9 | Just by chance, I was flicking through some old Twilight Zone magazines. |
| 1:21.5 | Now, these things are a treasure trove of facts and stories and interviews with, you know, the likes of Richard Matheson and so on. |
| 1:31.6 | A lot of stuff in there and I just happened to come across an article called Notes for a Twilight Zone movie. |
| 1:39.1 | He had a four word by Carol Sailing and she had this to say she said for years Rod planned to make a theatrical |
| 1:46.4 | twilight zone he never had the time to put her all together but at one point he submitted the |
| 1:51.8 | following proposal to some higher Hollywood power and Rod Sailing's words were this movie |
| 1:59.2 | will be a trilogy shot in black and white, |
| 2:02.0 | for a budget of under a million dollars. |
| 2:04.6 | The stories are separate and distinct, |
| 2:07.0 | but have a background thread |
| 2:08.2 | that moves one into the other. |
| 2:10.3 | Additionally, to emphasize the connection |
| 2:12.4 | to the popular TV series, |
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