The Box Expands to Film

Submitted for your approval:  A short tale from the Zone by one Mr. Richard Matheson in 1986, transforms into a two-hour film.  The tale in question is about a financially-strapped couple who is given an enigmatic box with a red-button affixed upon its top.

The function is relatively simple:  push the red button, earn a million dollars.  But there is one slight catch:  in exchange for the compensation, an unknown must cease to exist.  The moral dilemma is, would you push the button, risking the consequences in exchange for financial gain?

Though I confess, this is one tale I regrettably had only gone through halfway, thanks to a faulty television and reconfigured dimensional randomizer.  Thus, I myself never witnessed the end result of what the couple's actions had wrought.

Curiously, however, I ponder how one can successfully transpose a story for the Twilight Zone into a two-hour film?  Perhaps The Box may provide more dilemmas than what Mr. Matheson had to offer.  For the problem I can only see is similar to the manga Ikigami - The Ultimate Limit, where one is randomly killed by the government at a predetermined date.  Whereas one doesn't know whom might be exterminated, and if I know my delightful twists as I normally do, perhaps the unknown might be one of the couple itself.

Strange, I can envision my old friend, The Cryptkeeper, maniacally laughing at this prospect.  Also, if memory serves, Bender found a unique loophole with The Box when he was offered the same deal (Futurama Comics: 'Let's Twist Again.'):  By bashing the box over the robot's head who offered Bender the deal.

Robot (handing the money to Bender):  N-nice l-loophole!

Strange... but only oddities have occurred from such things originating from a little dimension we know simply as.. The Twilight Zone...