J.J. Abrams makes no secret of his admiration for Rod Serling: the Twilight Zone creator has influenced a lot of his work, he may oversee a new** Twilght Zone** movie directed by Matt Reeves and he even crafted an entire episode of Felicity as an homage to the Zone. Now he’s going one step further, buying up the rights to a Serling script called The Stops Along The Way to make into a miniseries.
Serling, of course, was a productive, smart insightful writer as well as introducing each episode of The Twilight Zone.** The Stops **is reputedly the last completed script he wrote before his deal in 1975 at the age of 50.
Abrams and his Bad Robot team secured the rights from Serling’s widow Carol and will develop the screenplay as a miniseries that will be shopped around to various telly outlets. We figure it’ll sell quickly given the Abrams brand name.
As for what it’s actually about? No one is saying right now, which should come as no surprise to those who know either Serling’s work or Abrams reputation as Secret-Keeper-In-Chief. The writer/director/composer/producer, meanwhile, is at work on some film project no one has heard of… Star**-something? If you want to know more about Abrams, you should check out Empire’s J.J.-centric issue, which is still available on the iPad.