David Koepp is returning to the world of twisted amusement parks. The screenwriter, greatest identified for adapting the hit novel “Jurassic Park” for the massive display screen, has been employed to pen a reboot of the 1973 sci-fi Western “Westworld.”
Warner Bros. is creating the reboot, which doesn’t have a director hooked up. The corporate is within the technique of being bought to Paramount Skydance, which might interrupt the studio’s improvement slate.
“Jurassic Park” novelist Michael Crichton wrote and directed the unique “Westworld,” which follows visitors as they go to an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly start to malfunction. (It’s a narrative that’s acquainted to followers of “Jurassic Park,” which additionally centered round a novel theme park the place issues take a harmful flip.) Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin starred in “Westworld,” which earned $10 million on the field workplace in opposition to a reported $1.2 million finances.
“Westworld” was additionally remade right into a dystopian TV collection, starring Evan Rachel Wooden, Thandiwe Newton and Jeffrey Wright. Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure created the collection, which aired on HBO from 2016-2022.
Koepp’s many credit embrace entries in main franchises, akin to “Mission: Impossible,” “Indiana Jones” and “Spider-Man,” in addition to unique movies like 1992’s “Death Becomes Her,” 2002’s “Panic Room” and 2005’s “War of the Worlds.” His current initiatives embrace 2023’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” two Steven Soderberg movies, the 2024 supernatural story “Presence” and 2025 spy thriller “Black Bag,” and “Jurassic World Rebirth.” Up subsequent, Koepp is re-teaming with frequent collaborator Steven Spielberg on this summer time’s alien-invasion tentpole “Disclosure Day,” starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.
