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'Twilight Zone' creator Rod Serling biopic announced
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Andrew Meieran's Bureau of Moving Pictures has acquired the rights to produce a movie about Serling's life. Wall Street co-writer Stanley Weiser will pen the screenplay. Meieran will produce along with Serling's widow Carol.
Serling was a prolific screenwriter, novelist and television producer, who was once a paratrooper in the US army during WWII.
He went on to work in radio, eventually creating and presenting the CBS series The Twilight Zone. He also co-wrote the script for 1968's Planet of the Apes.
Serling died at the age of 50 in 1975 due to complications from years of chain-smoking.
Meieran said: "Rod Serling was one of the true visionaries in television history. He single-handedly broke the mould and established television as a powerful artistic medium capable of changing the world when used wisely."
Leonardo DiCaprio is currently developing a remake of The Twilight Zone, with Rand Ravich hired as scriptwriter in 2009.
Watch the intro to The Twilight Zone below:
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