The Twilight Zone to be a movie again

All I want to say is that if whoever wrote this peice thinks that the "Twilight Zone" is "basically science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories with a twist" has not been paying very close attention to the show.
Any self respecting "zonehead"(like myself) knows that Rod Serling was a very serious and much sought after writer at one time (He had won six emmy's during the course of his television writing career).One of his passions was to use television not only as an entertainment value venue, but also saw it's potential as a teaching tool. Unfortunantly, the issues that he wanted addressed had to do with our own social structure and this did not sit well with the sponsors. So enter "The Twilight Zone", a place where social problems can be addressed under the disguise if science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories with a twist.

The 1983 movie wasn't bad. The Lithgow "There's a man on the wing of this plane!" segment was by far my favorite.

I think the best thing they could do is NOT use Serling's scripts. Stop tying the show back to the past. Take, for example, the mid-1980s TV revival. Very well done. They took OTHER SF/fantasy short stories, mostly from very famous and award-winning SF writers, and built episodes around them. "The Twilight Zone" is a great concept that could be revived to fit any era. The key is to find well-written stories that say something about contemporary society. Reviving the same 1960s scripts with new special effects is pointless. People act differently now in society (note I didn't say people ARE different), and most of it would not translate well. You'd just be dragging around a corpse, a la "Weekend at Bernies".

"Wanna see something scary?"