{"id":8375,"date":"2019-04-04T09:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:59:25","slug":"back-in-the-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"BACK IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\"><em>Just in time for our meeting on the 13th, an article in the Gazette about Twilight Zone.\u00a0 &#8211;CPL<br \/>\n<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">BACK IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE<\/h5>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleSubtitle\">Classic series that paved way for Star Trek and Black Mirror getting a Peele reboot<\/h5>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Montreal Gazette, <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">4 Apr 2019, <\/time>TOM FORDY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\">\n<p><figure style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.prcdn.co\/img?regionKey=ZY2CZOR%2bgXCMeZK%2bcimrzQ%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"366\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CBSThe Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling would be stunned and humbled that people are still talking about his work, his daughter says. The series is returning for 10 new episodes with Jordan Peele stepping into Serling\u2019s role.<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The Twilight Zone Debuts April 4, Citytv<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Sixty years after The Twilight Zone was first broadcast, its influence on popular culture reaches far beyond the fifth dimension. Just imagine a parallel universe where the spooky anthology series and its creator Rod Serling never existed. There would be no Star Trek, no Twin Peaks, no Black Mirror, no twist endings, no breaking of the fourth wall and no one whistling the \u201cdo-do-do-do, do-do-do-do\u201d theme tune whenever something strange happens.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Originally broadcast from 1959 to 1964, The Twilight Zone told one-off tales of mystery, monsters and men from space, usually with a rug-pull twist in the final seconds \u2014 \u201cThey were dead all along! It was all a dream! The humans are the real monsters!\u201d \u2014 a trick borrowed from other anthologies such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Serling himself played its suit-wearing, chain-smoking host, who wandered into the stories to introduce the week\u2019s mystery and warn viewers they were about to enter The Twilight Zone.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Now it is set to return for 10 new episodes debuting in Canada on Citytv Thursday, with Get Out and Us writer-director Jordan Peele stepping into Serling \u2019s role as the narrator, producer and co-writer.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">What gave the original show its power was its sharp-minded political allegory and social conscience, tapping into the anxieties of the day through probing moral quandaries.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Is it the anxieties of our own politically and socially turbulent era that make 2019 the right time to re-enter The Twilight Zone?<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI think that you could do The Twilight Zone in any era,\u201d says Glen Morgan, a writer and executive producer on the series. \u201cYou always think, \u2018This era is really crazy,\u2019 but things are always crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The team of producers, which includes Morgan, Peele, BlacKkKlansman producer Win Rosenfeld and Carol Serling, the wife of Rod, who died in 1975 at the age of 50, have vowed to create stories for the 21st century using Serling \u2019s tools \u2014 \u201cmischief, allegory, paranoia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">They are also bringing back the original series\u2019 iconic, unnerving theme tune.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThe original show has really been our guide,\u201d says Morgan. \u201cThe great thing that Serling did was to (present) moral problems \u2014 if you were in that situation, what character flaws do you have that the cosmos would come down and challenge you on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The rebooted series promises to delve into such modern-day issues as celebrity, technology, race and terrorism. There\u2019s also a modern tailspin on the original series\u2019 most iconic episodes, such as Nightmare at 20,000 Feet \u2014 about a gremlin that torments William Shatner\u2019s airplane passenger from out on the wing. It will gets an upgrade-cum-homage in Nightmare at 30,000 Feet, guest-starring Big Little Lies actor Adam Scott.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Other guest names on boa<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">rd for individual episodes include Seth Rogen, Chris O\u2019Dowd and Jacob Tremblay, the child star of Room.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">But Peele remains the face of the show.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">He is horror\u2019s man of the moment, the director of 2017\u2019s Oscar-winning Get Out, the well-reviewed Us, which is in theatres now, and a remake of Candyman due to be released next year.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">After a 1983 movie and two previous mediocre Twilight Zone TV reboots \u2014 first from 1985 to 1989 and again in 2002, both sorely missing Rod Serling\u2019s presence \u2014 Morgan believes Peele will finally get it right.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cJordan has a vast knowledge of the genre,\u201d he says. \u201cHis films are showing how to incorporate a social message into horror, the way Rosemary\u2019s Baby and The Exorcist did. That\u2019s why he\u2019s the guy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Serling himself confessed that he was \u201ctraumatized\u201d into writing by his experiences in the Second World War. He had been a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division and fought in the bloody Battle of Leyte. He returned to the United States in 1946, but he was left with both physical and mental scars: a shrapnel-injured knee that sometimes buckled beneath him and flashbacks to the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cHe would say that he dreamt the enemy was coming at him,\u201d says his daughter Anne, now 63, who wrote the memoir As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling. \u201cIt was something he had to process his whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Serling became a scriptwriter, first for radio and then TV.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">But he became frustrated with executives who meddled with his stories, terrified that his morally progressive scripts would upset conservative viewers and advertisers.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The Twilight Zone concept allowed Serling to slip in his social and political commentaries via the fifth dimension.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cHis quote was, \u2018It\u2019s the writer\u2019s job to menace the public\u2019s conscience,\u2019\u201d says Anne.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cHe was passionate about what was happening in the world \u2014 prejudice, mob mentality, that kind of thing. Through The Twilight Zone he was able to tell these stories, with the messages going under the radar. Another thing he said was, \u2018A monster or alien could say what a Democrat or Republican couldn\u2019t.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The Twilight Zone debuted on Oct. 2, 1959. The series wasn\u2019t considered a ratings success at first, but connected strongly with a teenage audience. Over five seasons it broadcast 156 episodes, all in black and white.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The show had recurring themes: unlikely monsters tormenting lone protagonists (a gremlin, talking doll and even a fruit machine); microcosms of society on the brink of hysteria (white-picket suburbanites who fear there is an alien among them); careful-whatyou-wish-for parables (a bookworm who prefers literature to people is the only man to survive the apocalypse, but breaks his glasses before he can enjoy a lifetime of uninterrupted reading); and darkly comic ironies (humans who realize the manifesto from a race of seemingly friendly aliens isn\u2019t a manifesto at all, but a cookbook).<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIt was primarily dealing with the human condition,\u201d says Anne. \u201cThese issues that he talked about way back when are still sadly relevant and prevalent today. I can tell you unequivocally that he would be deeply, deeply saddened by what\u2019s happening (in America) now \u2014 and then he would be apoplectic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">After The Twilight Zone was cancelled in 1964, Serling went on to host and write for the not-entirely-dissimilar horror anthology Night Gallery. He died 10 years later after a series of heart attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI don\u2019t know that he was aware of the impact he had,\u201d says Anne. \u201cHe would be stunned that people are still talking about his work \u2014 stunned and humbled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Morgan was overwhelmed the first time he wrote down the classic \u201cyou are now entering another dimension\u201d opening spiel.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIf you\u2019re a scriptwriter, it\u2019s like being an American baseball player and pulling on Yankee pinstripes,\u201d he says. \u201cThe first time I wrote it I had to walk around my backyard, and I was emotional. I know Jordan felt the same way. 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