Above: Jordan Peele tells Marc Fennell why he takes pleasure in making people scared.
Even if you haven’t seen any of legendary sci-fi series 'The Twilight Zone', you would have felt its impact in media like The Simpsons, Futurama, The Simpsons and, of course, The Simpsons.
Hollywood’s modern-day horror mastermind Jordan Peele is bringing back the frightful ‘50s and ‘60s institution, acting as producer and host.
Anticipation for the reboot has hit boiling point in the run up to it’s April 1st debut.
According to Peele, though the whole thing would never have happened if not for one person: Donald J. Trump.
Imagine a place...
“I heard people saying it feels like we’re in the Twilight Zone in the past couple of years since Trump got elected,” Peele told The Feed’s Marc Fennell.
(For the uneducated - Twilight Zone is kind of like the original ‘Black Mirror’ - with the horror built on telling stories that could almost actually happen in the real world.)
According to Peele, the current ‘topsy-turviness’ of the world meant it was the perfect time to revive the series.
Peele will be stepping into shoes of the show’s creator and narrator Rod Serling. An ex-US soldier, Serling was vocally anti-war and pro-racial equality, an anomaly in the mid-20th century.
Source: The Feed
“I really felt in my core is that what Serling did was that he taught us through the power of allegory and parable,” Peele said.
“I felt that I attempted to do justice to his legacy that it could do some good. 'The Twilight Zone' is a show worthy of fighting for.”
Get out (of the White House)
Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the first time Peele has criticised President Trump.
He’s used social media as a platform to speak out against the administration.
Peele takes aim at the alleged White House doctoring of a Trump press conference. Source: Twitter
Peele references the horror location where victims are trapped in 'Get Out'. Source: Twitter
Source: The Feed
“What does give me hope is, you know, so Obama used to say, you know, 'Progress isn't always a straight line." Which -- who knows how true it is? But I believe it."
In 2018, Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Buzzfeed teamed up to create an incredibly realistic ‘Deep Fake’ of Obama, using Peele’s uncanny impersonation of the former president.
Peele took the viral video as an opportunity to warn people of the threat modern technology poses to accurate news reporting...and to insult Trump.
Enjoy!
