
We know episode titles, and that one episode might be a remake of a classic.
We know five out of the ten episode titles so far. “Rewind” will the first episode about the mysterious video camera, starring Lathan. “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet” will star Scott. “The Traveler” will star Yeun and Kinnear. “Wunderkind” will star Cho. And “Point of Origin” will star Goodwin.
Of these, there is one direct tribute to an original, classic Twilight Zone episode titled “Nightmare at 20,000 feet.” In that episode, a man originally played by William Shatner is flying in a plane and spots a creature on the wing, trying to make the plane crash, but when he tries to warn everyone, no one believes him.
In fact, we see a doll of the gremlin wash up on the shore in the trailer (see slide 5 above). Are this past episode and this future episode somehow connected? Or is the new one just a remake of the classic?
It takes brass to take on a bonafide television classic. And Jordan Peele knows it; at first, he didn’t want to touch it.
“The realization, for me, was that it was an opportunity to attempt to continue with Serling’s mission,” said Peele in an interview with Variety. “If we approach it without ego and sort of bow to Serling, that will hopefully suffice for our fellow Twilight Zone fans but also bring back a show that I think is needed right now. Because it’s a show that has always helped us look at ourselves, hold a mirror up to society.”