Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983
Science fiction horror film produced by
Steven Spielberg and
John Landis as a theatrical version of
The Twilight Zone, a 1959 and '60s
TV series created by
Rod Serling. It starred
Dan Aykroyd,
Albert Brooks,
Vic Morrow,
Scatman Crothers,
Kathleen Quinlan and
John Lithgow.
Burgess Meredith, who starred in several episodes of the original series, took on Serling's position as narrator, although unlike Serling he did not appear on screen, nor did he receive screen credit. But, his name did appear in the end credits.
The film remade three classic episodes of
the original series and included one original story.
John Landis directed the prologue and the first segment,
Steven Spielberg directed the second,
Joe Dante the third, and
George Miller directed the final segment. The promotional song from this movie, "
Nights Are Forever", written by
Jerry Goldsmith with lyricist
John Bettis, and sung by
Jennifer Warnes, is heard briefly during the jukebox scene in the opening segment with Vic Morrow.
The film garnered notoriety for the helicopter crash which took the lives of actor
Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, during the filming of Landis's segment. The deaths led to high-profile legal action, although in the subsequent trial no one was held criminally culpable for the accident.Weber, Bruce. ,
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