Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill Reunite for The Outer Limits

Steve Barton   |  

Jun 20, 2014

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Between 1963 and 1965, ABC aired 49 episodes of the strange and the macabre in “The Outer Limits” (review). Talk of a big screen adaptation has been ongoing for a few years now, but finally some steps in the right direction have been taken!

THR reports that Scott Derrickson, who just signed on to bring Marvel’s Doctor Strange to life, is reuniting with his Sinister co-scribe C. Robert Cargill to write the big-screen take of the cult classic 1960s sci-fi TV series “The Outer Limits” for MGM.

Derrickson is a longtime fan of the show (he has said in the past he prefers it over “The Twilight Zone,” as do I), and he and Cargill will focus on one episode in particular: “Demon With a Glass Hand,” which was written by Harlan Ellison.

The duo will be tackling time travel, alien invasion and genetic manipulation in adapting the episode, which focused on a man with no memory beyond the last 10 days and a computerized hand who discovers he is from the future. The man is being hunted by an alien race who see him as key to their survival, but he soon discovers a more complex and terrifying truth.

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