Scott Derrickson is massively in demand all of a sudden. Just a couple of weeks after he landed the gig directing Marvel’s Doctor Strange, it’s been revealed that he’s writing a big-screen adaptation of the classic sci-fi series The Outer Limits alongside his Sinister partner C. Robert Cargill.
THR broke the news, with Derrickson himself confirming it with the Tweet, ‘My screenwriting future has LIMITS’ and the pic below.
The original Outer Limits TV series ran from 1963 to 1965, with each episode opening with the cryptic message, “There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission….” Each instalment had a a different, Twilight Zone-ish, story.
Anthologies haven’t tended to work well on the big screen, but rather than trying to mimic the fact each episode of the show was completely different, the movie will be based on the ‘Demon With a Glass Hand’ episode, written by sci-fi legend Harlan Ellison. It starred Robert Culp as a man who wakes up with no memory of the previous 10 days. However he has a computerized left hand that helps him escape from an alien race who believe he is the key to survival.