'Twilight Zone' reboot: Jordan Peele confirms new take on Rod Serling TV series

Rod Serling, who was born in Syracuse and raised in Binghamton, created and hosted the original "The Twilight Zone" TV series.(Video still)

Are you ready to travel through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind?

"Twilight Zone" reboot is officially coming to CBS All-Access, "Get Out" director and former "Key & Peele" star Jordan Peele confirmed Wednesday. The new TV show will be based on Binghamton native Rod Serling's classic series that mixed horror, drama and science fiction.

"Too many times this year it's felt we were living in a twilight zone, and I can't think of a better moment to reintroduce it to modern audiences," Peele told The Hollywood Reporter.

Peele and Simon Kinberg ("X-Men") will executive produce the series, and Marco Ramirez ("Marvel's Daredevil," "The Defenders") will serve as the writer and showrunner. All three will collaborate on the first episode.

An episode count has not been announced for the first season, but CBS says it will air exclusively on its streaming service that currently features "Star Trek: Discovery," Will Ferrell's "No Activity" and "The Good Wife" spinoff "The Good Fight."

Serling, who was born in Syracuse and grew up in Binghamton, created and hosted the original "The Twilight Zone" that ran from 1959 to 1964 on CBS. The series was previously revived for three seasons in the '80s and briefly in 2002; Steven Spielberg also produced "Twilight Zone: The Movie," starring John Lithgow, in 1983.

"The original 'The Twilight Zone' bridged science-fiction, horror and fantasy together to explore human nature and provide social commentary in a way that audiences had never seen before," Julie McNamara, Executive Vice President of Original Content at CBS All Access, said in a press release. "Under the auspices of Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez, and with the creative freedom that the CBS All Access platform affords, this is an incredible opportunity to bring today's audiences a modern reimagining of this iconic series."

Serling, who died in 1975, was posthumously inducted into the Television Hall of Fame and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. His Emmy-winning series was later named the third best-written TV show of all time by the Writers Guild of America, after "Seinfeld" (No. 2) and "The Sopranos" (No. 1).

In 2013,  "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams reportedly reached a deal to adapt Serling's final, never-before-seen story "The Stops Along the Way" into a new television event series. No production date, release or network has been announced.

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