'We can’t go so dark that it makes us want to curl up in a ball. ‘It’s about firing the imagination and finding the same kind of territory that the original series did: that corridor of uncertainty, that middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. ‘It’s more about intrigue and fascination than it is about out-and-out scariness and horror,’ he says. Later episodes include The Blue Scorpion, starring The IT Crowd’s Chris O’Dowd as Jeff Storck, an anthropology professor who inherits a gun that appears to have an evil mind of its own.īut Jordan Peele says he doesn’t want the new series to give viewers sleepless nights. William Shatner – who later became Captain Kirk in Star Trek – took the lead role in Nightmare At 20,000ft, a 1963 story that’s been updated (and had an extra 10,000ft added to its title) for this week’s all-new episode. Stars of the future such as Burt Reynolds, Leonard Nimoy and Robert Redford appeared in the original Twilight Zone. 'If you can predict where an audience thinks a story is going to go, you can use it against them and lead them in a different direction. ‘The key is to totally fool the audience. ‘It was the twist in the tale that people used to stay around for, and To Serve Man is regarded as one of the best of them,’ says Oscar-winning writer Jordan Peele, who both co-created the new series and narrates the on-camera prologue and epilogue to each episode. Pictured: The terrifying talking doll in the original series Oscar-winning writer Jordan Peele who co-created the new series, revealed the new series is more about intrigue than horror.
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