{"id":106323,"date":"2018-12-13T12:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=106323"},"modified":"2018-12-13T12:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:38:57","slug":"the-twilight-zone-reboot-adds-steven-yeun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-twilight-zone-reboot-adds-steven-yeun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twilight Zone reboot adds Steven Yeun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Peele&#8217;s reboot of\u00a0<em><strong>The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/em> has found another cast member in the form of\u00a0<em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Steven Yeun.<\/p>\n<p>The actor is set to appear in an episode titled\u00a0&#8216;<em><strong>The Traveller<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;, and will joined the previously announced host and narrator Jordan Peele. Yeun&#8217;s role is currently being kept under wraps. Other announced cast members include\u00a0Kumail Nanjiani,\u00a0John Cho,\u00a0Allison Tolman,\u00a0Jacob Tremblay and\u00a0Erica Tremblay.<\/p>\n<p>Since exiting\u00a0<em><strong>The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>following Gleen Rhee&#8217;s brutal death scene, Yeun has largely remained in genre, appearing in projects like\u00a0<em><strong>Okja<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Sorry To Bother You<\/strong><\/em>, and lending his voice to\u00a0<em><strong>Trollhunters: Tales Of Arcadia<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Final Space\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Voltron: Legendary Defender<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Twilight Zone\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is being produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele\u2019s production company Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg\u2019s Genre Films. Both Peele and Kinberg will serve as executive producers alongside Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Carol Serling, Rick Berg and Greg Yaitanes. The show is set to air on streaming service CBS All Access in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Serling\u2019s\u00a0<em><strong>The Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0originally ran from 1959 to 1964, and there have been various revivals and reboots since, not to mention a movie. But with the success of shows like\u00a0<strong><em>Black Mirror<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Philip K Dick\u2019s Electric Dreams<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Room 104<\/em><\/strong>, it\u2019s obviously a good time to bring it back from a network\u2019s point of view. It also feels like the perfect time for a new batch of social commentary-driven, unsettling SF stories, and on the basis of\u00a0<strong><em>Get Out<\/em><\/strong>, Peele is absolutely the perfect choice for this.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Twilight Zone\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>will premiere on CBS All Access in 2019. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walking Dead&#8217;s Steven Yeun has joined the cast of The Twilight Zone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":106324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[665],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/steven-yeun-glenn-walking-dead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}