Jack Klugman, Ross Martin and Fredrick Beir in TWILIGHT ZONE: Death Ship
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Summit Begins the COUNTDOWN
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Summit is prepping a new sci-fi action tale with Countdown, which is based on a classic "Twilight Zone" episode, says the Hollywood Reporter.
"'Countdown' is fantastic because it wraps the themes of fate and predestination in a movie that is really a giant puzzle (that will also) be fun for the audience to piece together," Brandt said.
Plot Concept: Story revolves around a group of astronauts who land on a planet only to find a crashed spaceship and corpses that eerily resemble their own. They then must piece together where they are and whether they might in fact already be dead.
The episode, titled "Death Ship," was written by featured "Twilight Zone" scribe Richard Matheson ("I Am Legend"), who based it on his own short story published in a sci-fi magazine a number of years earlier.
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