Here’s a strange story from Variety. Remember MGM, the studio that’s such a financial disaster it can’t even make a movie out of proven, sure to make billions properties like James Bond and The Hobbit? Somehow they’re making a movie based on The Outer Limits, a television series which contains nothing a movie could actually be based on. Is it any wonder MGM’s in trouble?

Here’s the thing about The Outer Limits. There’s nothing there to adapt. Like The Twilight Zone the series was merely a collection of short stories, the difference being that the Limits focused entirely on science fiction stories. Each week featured an entirely different, completely unrelated story with brand new actors playing new characters, which had nothing to do with the previous episode and usually bore no resemblance to it at all. They made a movie out of The Twilight Zone so I suppose doing an Outer Limits movie isn’t impossible, it’s just kind of pointless. You could just write an original sci-fi script and make a movie out of it and achieve exactly the same thing, only without the expense of buying the Outer Limits name to slap on it. And it’s not like the Outer Limits name is going to sell tickets. I like Outer Limits but it’s hardly a household name. It’s not sending people running to theaters.

What’s the point? Why are they spending money on this when everything they can scrape together should be sent to New Zealand so Peter Jackson can get his Hobbit movie going before everyone gives up and the whole thing implodes? I don’t get it. I guess MGM doesn’t either since MGM claims they just paid writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to come up with a script a couple of weeks ago. So go ahead and add this to the list of MGM projects which will never get made. Thanks MGM, for another crushing disappointment. Please stand by.