Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is set to produce an authorized biographical documentary on the life of “The Twilight Zone“ creator Rod Serling, we’ve learned today from Indiewire.
The Serling doc, currently untitled, will be directed by GameStop: Rise of the Players filmmaker Jonah Tulis. Indiewire also reports that Serling’s daughters, Jodi Serling and Anne Serling, have given the project their full blessing and come aboard as executive producers.
The documentary will “explore how Serling’s writing helped change television forever. The film will look at Serling’s humble beginnings in television and how he later used his platform to affect change both on and off the screen, including his battles with censors and how he grappled with thought-provoking issues of racism, war, the dangers of technology, and morality via the genre-bending, sci-fi parables.”
Serling had a way with words, and the documentary is expected to lean into archival footage to give the host, creator, narrator, writer, and political activist a voice in the doc. The screenwriter and television producer is best known for his defining television work, most notably on genre-bending anthology series “The Twilight Zone”, providing fertile ground for exploration in documentary format.
“We are excited to dive into the life of such a visionary who understood the role storytelling plays in pushing and challenging societal norms,” Appian Way’s Jennifer Davisson told Indiewire in a statement. “Equipped with a vast and extensive collection of archival footage, we hope to capture the essence of a man who used ‘The Twilight Zone’ so poignantly to drive social and political change.”
“We are very excited to collaborate with Appian Way and provide an inside look at Rod Serling’s story with a personal narrative and footage that audiences have never seen before,“ Verdi said. “This documentary will be the first of several projects that we plan on producing with this team.”
The film will be a produced by Appian Way, Goodlight, Grub Street Films, and Verdi Productions, with DiCaprio producing alongside Chad A. Verdi, Jennifer Davisson, Phillip Watson, Taylor DiGilio, Blake J. Harris, Michelle Verdi, Chad Verdi Jr., Paul Luba, and Tulis.
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