Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie
Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
Directed by	John Landis (prologue & "Time Out") Steven Spielberg ("Kick the Can") Joe Dante ("It's a Good Life") George Miller ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")
Produced by	Steven Spielberg John Landis
Written by	John Landis (prologue & segment 1) George Clayton Johnson (original screenplay "Kick the Can", segment 2) Richard Matheson and Melissa Mathison (segment 2) Jerome Bixby (story "It's a Good Life", segment 3) Richard Matheson (segment 3) Richard Matheson (short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" & screenplay, segment 4)
Based on	Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Starring	Dan Aykroyd Albert Brooks Scatman Crothers John Lithgow Vic Morrow Kathleen Quinlan
Narrated by	Burgess Meredith Rod Serling
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography	Allen Daviau John Hora Stevan Larner
Edited by	Malcolm Campbell Tina Hirsch Michael Kahn Howard E. Smith
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	June 24, 1983 (1983-06-24)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English French German Vietnamese
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$29.5 million

Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 American anthology science-fiction fantasy horror film produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis as a theatrical version of the 1959–64 TV series The Twilight Zone, created by Rod Serling. The film stars Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan and John Lithgow with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks in the prologue segment. Burgess Meredith, who starred in four episodes of the original series, took on Serling's position as narrator. In addition to Meredith, six actors from the original series (William Schallert, Kevin McCarthy, Bill Mumy, Murray Matheson, Peter Brocco, and Patricia Barry) had roles in the film.

The film is a remake of three classic episodes of the original series and includes one original story. Landis directed the prologue and the first segment, Spielberg directed the second, Joe Dante the third, and George Miller directed the final segment. Dante recalled that in the film's original conception the three stories would be interwoven with characters from one segment appearing in another segment, but later problems with the film precluded this.

The film garnered notoriety before its release for the tragic stunt helicopter crash which took the lives of Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, during the filming of the segment directed by Landis. The two child actors were hired illegally. Their deaths led to a high-profile legal case, although at the end of the trial no one was found to be criminally culpable for the accident.