Forest Whitaker as host of THE TWILIGHT ZONE
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Producers talk new version of TWILIGHT ZONE
By: Christopher Allan SmithDate: Friday, September 06, 2002
Source: SciFi Wire
The new custodians of THE TWILIGHT ZONE tradition are talking about what fans of the genre legend can expect when they tune into the new incarnation of the show on UPN this fall.
In a recent interview, executive producer Pen Densham teased the first episode, staring Jason Alexander [see related news item today] with these words, "[His] character of Death decides he no longer wants to take life, and it depresses him. He actually tries to end his own life, and ends up in the E.R. with a doctor who's trying to figure out if he's really Death, or if he's just this crazy guy, and all the consequences of that."
The producer is also trying to revive the show's mythic quality as a maker of modern parables. "[They] are very close to parable, very close to folk tales, very close to [Edgar Allan] Poe, very close to studies of human nature and psychology," Densham said. "A lot of the great [classic] THE TWILIGHT ZONE... were just good science fiction. We're also able to work in the field of the noir ghost story or the story about the supernatural. And so this is a broader fabric, and I think a much more provocative and exciting storytelling medium."
The premiere of the new TWILIGHT ZONE will be September 18.
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