Leo Likes Twilight; Lakshmi Enters Sitcom Zone

No, not that Twilight. DiCaprio is developing a new big-screen version of The Twilight Zone

For fans from an older generation, there's only one Twilight.

Sorry to disappoint, ladies. There will be no Robert Pattinson-Leonardo DiCaprio showdown in Stephenie Meyer's big-screen blockbuster franchise. But indeed the latter heartthrob is about to enter The Twilight Zone.

Per Variety, Warner Bros. and DiCaprio's production company Appian Way are moving forward with a new film based on Rod Serling's classic sci-fi fantasy TV anthology series and have hired Rand Ravich to pen the screenplay.

No word yet whether DiCaprio will star. He's currently in London shooting Christopher Nolan's top-secret sci-fi epic, Inception, and will next be seen in theaters in another spookfest, Martin Scorsese's heavily anticipated thriller, Shutter Island.

Twilight Zone: The Movie was released in 1983 and featured four horror/sci-fi segments directed by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, John Landis and George Miller. But aside from a 2002 tube revival, other flicks have failed to get off the ground.

Ravich's credits include the 1999 Johnny Depp clunker The Astronaut's Wife, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh and the NBC cop series Life.

Meanwhile, Top Chef emcee Padma Lakshmi is whipping up a half-hour comedy with NBC and Universal Media Studios that aims to take advantage of her culinary expertise. The sitcom, rumored to be called Single Serving, will see the reality host play a woman working in the food world.

Lakshmi's no stranger to acting, having had roles in Maria Carey's bomb, Glitter, the Star Trek spinoff Enterprise and ABC's 2006 miniseries The Ten Commandments.

Here's a roundup of the rest of today's casting news:

• Morgan Freeman is negotiating to costar with Bruce Willis in the spy thriller Red, based on the WildStorm/DC Comic about a former black-ops CIA agent who's forced to come out of retirement when a deadly high-tech hitman shows up to take him out.

• According to the Hollywood Reporter, Oscar nominee Viola Davis is in talks to play opposite Julia Roberts and Richard Jenkins in Columbia's adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's best-seller, Eat, Pray, Love. The thesp would play the best friend of Roberts' character, a woman who travels around the globe to find herself after a difficult divorce.

• Species babe Natasha Henstridge is set to voice the female lead in Stan Lee's latest digital comic book creation, Time Jumper, a comic book-style thriller about a hero who travels through time to battle an evil terrorist group called C.U.L.T. The actress will play Vyle, his arch nemesis, and Disney will air five- to eight-minute episodes of Time Jumper online and via cell phones every two weeks through December.

• The Lord of the Rings alum Sean Bean has come aboard Game of Thrones, a fantasy series for HBO based on George R.R. Martin's books chronicling a struggle between seven kingdoms and two ruling families to assume control of the Iron Throne, which will enable them to survive a 40-year winter. The thesp will play the honorable Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark. Filming starts in October in Ireland.

• Adam Beach has signed on for a season-long stint in HBO's hit drama Big Love, playing Tommy Flute, the son of Bill's partner, Jerry Flute, who's head of the Indian Gaming Casino

• CSI fans will be psyched to learn that Jorja Fox, who played Las Vegas forensic scientist Sara Sidle for eight seasons, is returning to the hit CBS crime series for five episodes this fall. Fox popped up in a cameo for one last fling with star William Petersen in his swan song episode back in January.