Michael Crichton's film Westworld is being remade as a TV series, in a rather big way. Deadline reports that the power trio of J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan and Jerry Weintraub are executive producing the new version for HBO.
Deadline calls it "one of the biggest commitments ever for HBO," as the project has been given a pilot production commitment, jumping past other steps in development most shows go through.
Nolan, who co-wrote the Dark Knight trilogy with his brother Christopher and David Goyer, is writing the pilot with Lisa Joy (Burn Notice) and will direct it. This is the second team-up for Abrams and Nolan, following CBS' Person of Interest. The involvement of legendary producer Weintraub is interesting, given this is his first pairing with Abrams or Nolan, though he did just work with HBO on Behind the Candelabra. This is the first major cable sale for Abrams' Bad Robot, who have been behind numerous network series in recent years.
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