Westworld Movie Remake In The Works After HBO’s Cancellation Of The Sci-Fi Series – SlashFilm

What’s higher than going to an amusement park and having fun with the myriad points of interest? Based on the mixed world field workplace of the “Jurassic Park” franchise, many individuals yearn to hit up a park the place the points of interest get pleasure from them! In a lethal style!

Creator Michael Crichton at all times had a factor for amusement parks run amok. 17 years previous to writing the novel “Jurassic Park” in 1990, he wrote and directed the function movie “Westworld.” This sci-fi horror delight discovered moneyed vacationers visiting an grownup-themed playground the place they may romp about in Wild West or Medieval instances, participating in barroom brawls or making like Errol Flynn and crossing swords with rogue knights. It was a good time till the robots programmed to lose to stated vacationers went haywire and sought to ship these attendees on a everlasting trip.

The hook of Crichton’s “Westworld” movie was watching a few company cowboys (Richard Benjamin and James Brolin) clumsily exchanging very actual bullets with a black-hat Yul Brenner (star of “The Magnificent Seven”). When Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure expanded “Westworld” for HBO in 2016, they gave Brenner’s black hat (performed on this iteration by Ed Harris) a deep backstory. Nolan and Pleasure eagerly acquired to world-constructing, however to the dismay of some, they acquired away from the robots-killing-people baseline of the collection. Evaluations remained marginally optimistic, however by the fourth season “Westworld” was enjoying to a diminishing crowd. Given its price range, it died.

Now, one other “Westworld” remake is reportedly within the works from David Koepp, the screenwriting spine of the “Jurassic Park” movie franchise. Underneath his aegis, robotic cowboys would possibly as soon as once more rule the Earth. Deadline’s acquired the scant particulars, and it seems like a bleaching of Nolan and Pleasure’s work is within the offing.

Warner Bros. Discovery is at the moment in mad flux, what with the upcoming regulatory approval for the Paramount Skydance merger. And since we reside in mad instances I will spare you wild hypothesis as to how this can prove. However what I do not see on this “Westworld” dispatch is a point out of WBD manufacturing chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, who simply led the studio to a field workplace bonanza in 2025 and a large number of Oscars. What is the level of resurrecting an IP that fizzled out after 4 seasons? And who’s directing the movie? Koepp’s by no means helmed a bona fide hit. Mike and Pam took dangers. The cultural second for “Westworld” has handed. Need to provoke mainstream audiences? Make one thing with a greenback signal and a conscience connected to it.

Fleming stories that “a significant filmmaker is circling.” I hope it is his different frequent A-record collaborator Brian De Palma, however my cash is on Colin Trevorrow. There’s additionally some hypothesis that “Jurassic Park” director Steven Spielberg might be the filmmaker in query. At SXSW earlier this yr, Spielberg declared, “I wish to make a Western! I wanna shoot it in Texas!” and teased, “I am unable to reveal something proper now however I’ve one thing in improvement proper now.”

I simply do not understand how you observe up a slate of daring originals from gifted filmmakers with a reboot of an amusement park catastrophe flick from a man like Koepp, who’s achieved it so many instances that it is only a gig. All hail the gig financial system blockbuster!