After a search that involved several interested candidates, Warner Brothers has chosen their director for The Twilight Zone, a fresh take on the classic Rod Serling TV series that aired from 1959 to 1964.

WB has picked Matt Reeves to direct the new movie, which will be presented as one big science fiction action story instead of the multi–story anthology format used for 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Reeves is best known for directing the J.J. Abrams–produced monster movie, Cloverfield, and American Let the Right One In remake, Let Me In. He also wrote, directed, and produced episodes of Felicity.

Reeves will direct the movie from a script written by Jason Rothenberg, and it’s hoped that production can begin by next summer.

Among the producers of this new Twilight Zone project is Leonardo DiCaprio through his Appian Way Productions.

[Source: Deadline]