David Koepp Redraws Michael Crichton’s ‘Westworld’ For Warner Bros Film

EXCLUSIVE: After bringing Michael Crichton‘s taxable parkland imagination to nan surface scripting 1993’s Jurassic Park and 2 sequels, screenwriter David Koepp is looking to tackle different one. Deadline hears Koepp will revisit Westworld, nan 1973 movie written and directed by Crichton astir an big imagination parkland that allows monied guests pinch a hankering for nan Old West to spell up against a coterie of robots wielding six-guns. The picnic turns nightmarish erstwhile a crack-shot robot malfunctions and starts drafting down connected guests, for real.

The movie starred Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin. Crichton made nan original movie for MGM, but this 1 is for Warner Bros, nan workplace that utilized nan conception for nan TV bid by Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan. Koepp is penning nan book and a awesome filmmaker is circling.

Koepp, who astir precocious scripted Jurassic World: Rebirth, hooked backmost up pinch original Jurassic Park helmer Steven Spielberg connected Disclosure Day, which opens June 12 done Universal and is expected to beryllium 1 of nan blockbusters of this coming summer. He’s repped by CAA and lawyer David Fox.

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