if Rod Serling wrote Star Wars...

[Temis the Vorta]

This would be the result.

 

[Christopher]

Cute... but technically that should probably be "if Jerome Bixby wrote Star Wars." Serling adapted the episode from Bixby's story.

 

[Mysterion]

That was good.

Also like this one: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneMinuteGalactica#p/a/u/1/tLUlglHCrjw

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Cute... but technically that should probably be "if Jerome Bixby wrote Star Wars." Serling adapted the episode from Bixby's story.

But then nobody would get the joke.

 

[Kegg]

And writing from someone else's story is still writing, innit? Is why the credits are different.

I remember seeing one of these which recast Planet of the Apes as a Twilight Zone episode, which predictably worked rather well.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Rod Serling is the guy who came up with the "it was Earth all along!" twist anyway. He used that at least once in a TZ episode...

 

[Greg Cox]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

 

[Christopher]

^Yup. It definitely has that Serling flavor to it. Not so much the sequels, though.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

The Twilight Zoo.

 

[Admiral2]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

Quite true.

 

[Mistral]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

Oh, yeah. Say what you want about the original novel-the movie was obviously influenced by The Man....

 

[Christopher]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

Oh, yeah. Say what you want about the original novel-the movie was obviously influenced by The Man....

If by "influenced by" you mean "actually co-written by," then yes. Serling's draft was rewritten by Michael Wilson, but Serling's own voice and style are still very present in the final draft.

 

[Set Harth]

^Yup. It definitely has that Serling flavor to it. Not so much the sequels, though.

The ending of the first sequel is sort of Serlingesque.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Everybody worshipping the bomb in the underground cave was very reminiscent of yet another TZ episode, where nuclear war survivors are worshipping (well, taking orders from) a computer in a cave, which also looked exactly like the same computer in that TOS episode about Landru.

And I just saw another "it was Earth all along!" TZ episode - Probe 7, Over and Out. Cute.

 

[Kegg]

Rod Serling is the guy who came up with the "it was Earth all along!" twist anyway.

Probably. There's a twist ending to the original Pierre Boulle novel, but it's different than the twist ending in the film.

 

[Harvey]

Rod Serling is the guy who came up with the "it was Earth all along!" twist anyway.

Probably. There's a twist ending to the original Pierre Boulle novel, but it's different than the twist ending in the film.

And a twist that works well in prose, but damned if I can figure out how it would be filmed. Serling was right to change things.

 

[Klaus]

...if RS wrote SW? The Emperor/Palpatine connection would have been an actual, well-crafted twist rather than something everyone except the Jedi knew.

And it would have had cameos by Burgess Meredith and Jack Klugman.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The problem with Palps is that the audience knows the actor who plays the Emperor so there's no way to make his identity a surprise if that actor is playing him.

The way to make it work would have either found a reasonable excuse to have a different actor play him, so that the reveal actually would be a surprise, or just not have the Emperor's secret identity be important in the story.

What if there was no Palpatine? Anakin has some mystical experience on a planet like the one in the Mortis Arc and comes back with a stowaway, a seemingly innocuous, wizened old man...

 

[Set Harth]

The way to make it work would have either found a reasonable excuse to have a different actor play him, so that the reveal actually would be a surprise

The name "Palpatine" was already out there in the books, so it would only have been a surprise to those who didn't know the ROTJ Emperor was called Palpatine.

 

[Samurai8472]

I've often thought of PLANET OF THE APES as the biggest, most expensive Twilight Zone episode ever . . ..

The script was originally written by Rod Serling but had many rewrites before eventually being made

The reveal at the end

The other pilot being lobotomized

Certain way scenes are shot.

You could just hear Serling narrating the ending