Jordan Peele's THE TWILIGHT ZONE Revival Gets a Super Bowl Promo Trailer
During the big game, CBS All Access shared the first promo spot for Jordan Peele’s upcoming revival of the classic series The Twilight Zone. There’s no footage from the series, it’s just a fun little announcement promo that introduced Peele as the host and sets the tone. Check it out…
The series will premiere on CBS All Access with two episodes on Monday, April 1st, with subsequent episodes airing on Thursdays starting April 11th.
The new series is described as an anthology that will tell self-contained stories in every episode. Also like its predecessors, it will lean on science fiction, fantasy, and horror to tell tales laced with social commentary.
Jordan Peele will host the series, and as for the cast of the episodes, Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) and Greg Kinnear (As Good as it Gets) are both set to appear in an episode titled “The Traveler.”
John Cho (Star Trek), Allison Tolman (Fargo), and Jacob Tremblay (Room, Wonder) will star in an episode called “The Wunderkind.”
Some of the other cast members include Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott, Kumail Nanjiani, DeWanda Wise, Taissa Farmiga (The Nun), Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), Luke Kirby (The Deuce), Ike Barinholtz, and Jessica Williams (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) are all starring in other episodes of The Twilight Zone.
The other episodes we know of so far that will be included in the series are “Nightmare At 30,000 Feet,” “Nick of Time,” and “Rewind.”