David Koepp To Script Remake Of Michael Crichton’s ‘Westworld’ Movie

EXCLUSIVE: After bringing Michael Crichton‘s theme park imaginative and prescient to the display screen scripting 1993’s jurassic park and two sequels, screenwriter David Koepp is trying to sort out one other one. Deadline hears Koepp will revisit Westworldthe 1973 movie written and directed by Crichton about an grownup fantasy park that enables monied company with a hankering for the Old West to go up towards a coterie of robots wielding six-guns. The trip turns nightmarish when a crack-shot robotic malfunctions and begins drawing down on company, for actual.

The film starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin. Crichton made the unique movie for MGM, however this one is for Warner Bros, the studio that used the idea for the TV sequence by Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan. Koepp goes straight again to Crichton’s authentic movie for the film.

Koepp is writing the script and a significant filmmaker is circling.

Koepp, who most just lately scripted Jurassic World: Rebirthhooked again up with authentic jurassic park Helmer Steven Spielberg on Disclosure Daywhich opens June 12 by way of Universal and is anticipated to be one of many blockbusters of this coming summer season.

He’s repped by CAA and lawyer David Fox.