While it looks like MGM might close down any day now, that hasn’t stopped them from starting up production on a feature-film adaptation of The Outer Limits. Similar to that other sci-fi tv series that aired in the 60s (ahem), The Outer Limits was usually far cheesier but still managed to produce some iconic episodes. The series returned in the 90s for more twist endings and a ton of success, and now it’s going to the big screen.
MGM has hired Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan for the job, a duo whose credits include four of the seven Saw atrocities (I still hesitate to call them films). To be fair though, these guys are the ones that are responsible for the incredibly fun Feast (along with its sequels), so let’s at least give them that. The writers are saying that they started the script last month but MGM has hurriedly insisted that they were hired before MGM’s financial problems.
There’s not much info available on the film yet- would it be an anthology? Set in the 60s? 90s? Will MGM still be around to release it?
Original series producer Mark Victor will be producing alongside Jon Shestack (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) and Jeremy Stein (The Photographer). More as we hear it.
If you’re interested in checking out the original show, MGM has uploaded almost every episode to Youtube! Check them out here. Conspicuously absent, sadly, is Demon With a Glass Hand, which James Cameron famously ripped off the plot of Terminator from.
Via Variety