The Little People (The Twilight Zone) Zone" historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed that the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground. He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the 'giants' with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Like many other installments of "Twilight Zone" episodes, this episode used several props and costumes originally created for MGM's "Forbidden
The Twilight Saga (film series) and others were combined. "[O]ur intent all along was to stay true to the book," Rosenberg explained, "and it has to do less with adapting it word for word and more with making sure the characters' arcs and emotional journeys are the same." Hardwicke suggested the use of voice over to convey the protagonist's internal dialogue, since the novel is told from Bella's point of view; and she sketched some of the storyboards during pre-production. Meyer, the author, and Hardwicke, the director, had a close relationship while developing "Twilight". Hardwicke wanted to embrace the experience and make the characters in