Filmmakers might dwell or die, however IP is eternally. Even when a franchise appears useless, you possibly can deliver it again from the grave — identical to a dinosaur resurrected with DNA from a mosquito in amber.
As you might need guessed already (I imply, you learn the headline, proper?) this isn’t an instance plucked from the air at random. The most recent little bit of film information includes a key member of the Jurassic Park inventive crew bringing again one other well-known franchise by Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton. That will be Westworld, the movie and later tv collection that predated Jurassic Park and offered Crichton’s first imaginative and prescient of a high-tech theme park descending into chaos.
Deadline stories that David Koepp, screenwriter of Jurassic Park and a number of other of its sequels, “will revisit Westworld, the 1973 movie written and directed by Crichton about an grownup fantasy park that enables monied friends with a hankering for the Previous West to go up in opposition to a coterie of robots wielding six-guns.”
The unique Westworld, starring Yul Brynner as a anonymous robotic who pursues a few vacationers within the park, turned a large sufficient hit within the ’70s to spawn a sequel (1976’s Futureworld) and a TV spinoff (1980’s Past Westworld).
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Extra not too long ago, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure rebooted Westworld as a collection for HBO. Their model contained the identical premise — a futuristic theme park goes dangerous — however advised its story with complicated overlapping timelines and later left the park behind nearly fully to inform a broader cautionary story about synthetic intelligence and expertise.
The present acquired off to a really buzzy, critically-acclaimed begin, however its rankings declined after its first season. HBO in the end canceled their Westworld earlier than a deliberate fifth season might totally conclude its overarching storyline. At this level, you possibly can’t even watch the outdated episodes on HBO Max.
Koeep wrote the scripts for Jurassic Park and The Misplaced World: Jurassic Park and not too long ago returned to the franchise to pen the screenplay for Jurassic World Rebirth. His different notable initiatives as screenwriter embody Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium, Steven Spielberg’s Conflict of the Worlds, and the primary Spider-Man.
Deadline claims an unnamed “main filmmaker” is circling his Westworld reboot.
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