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It’s been years since Paramount+’s TV reboot of The Twilight Zone quietly ended, but the anthology series may be coming back to the big screen.

Per Jeff Sneider, Warner Bros., which holds film rights for the franchise, is looking at Severance executive producer and lead director Ben Stiller to direct a new film. Various creatives have tried at it over the years, including Matt Reeves and Joseph Kosinski. But according to Sneider, Stiller may be the guy WB and production company Appian Way have needed to finally get the ball rolling on this film. The actor-director is a fan of the anthology show and previously cited it as an influence on Severance, up to and including a season two episode named after Twilight’s 1960 episode “The After Hours.”

The 1983 Twilight Zone movie had four segments, but this new film will reportedly just have one. Sneider claims one source told him the story would be supernatural and center on a fighter pilot assigned to a rocket that achieves time travel, which delivers him to a utopia 125 years in the future. The reporter stressed this could easily change: while Stiller’s allegedly been on board for “roughly six months,” it remains an open writing assignment (OWA), meaning any screenwriter could come on board and run with that premise or propose their own new take.

Sneider also acknowledged that if Stiller is directing this movie, it’ll be a ways out. Along with the third season of Severance, he’s starring in a fourth Fockers movie due holiday 2026 and directing the 1970s crime drama Bag Man. Still, we’ll report more on this potential Twilight Zone movie as news about it comes out.

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Your favorite mystery wrapped in a riddle that’s cloaked in secrecy is back with more breadcrumbs, leading our insatiable appetites toward still more unanswered questions. Months after Severance’s second season ended with Innie Mark (Adam Scott) and Innie Helly (Britt Lower) literally running into an uncertain future, executive producer Ben Stiller carefully teased possible expansions to the Severance universe, and indicated that he’d like to see an official video game based on the show, too.

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In his and Scott’s cover story feature with Variety, the pair express their enthusiasm for the idea of a Severance game, with Stiller saying it’d “be great to have” one and Scott agreeing that the show “lends itself to one.” There’s already a real-world proof of concept of the show’s video game potential. Last year, a Severance superfan created a computer game called Lumon based on the mundane and mysterious macrodata refinement work the Innies do in the show. A separate simulator was also released on Steam earlier this year.

While we try to consider what a big-budget game based on Severance might be like, Stiller also confirmed that Severance spin-offs are not off the table. “There are two specific ideas — that I won’t tell you — that we’ve talked about internally as possible spinoff ideas.” Spin-offs seem a bit more likely than a video game ever happening because the Severance team has been very intentional about providing ancillary context to the Severance lore. In 2022, a prequel short story named The Lexington Letter was released detailing the story of Lumon Industries employee Margaret “Peg” Kincaid and her attempts at exposing the company’s secrets.

A prequel series would make so much sense given that the show has been working its way backwards in explaining the world we’re watching. Whether we get either the spinoffs or the video game is anyone’s guess, but I’m sure the Reddit forums are developing the code and writing the scripts as we speak.

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