{"id":637451,"date":"2026-05-11T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637451\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:22:14","slug":"westworld-movie-reboot-in-the-works-with-jurassic-park-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637451\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Westworld&#8217; Movie Reboot in the Works With Jurassic Park Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDavid Koepp is returning to the world of twisted amusement parks. The screenwriter, best known for adapting the hit novel \u201cJurassic Park\u201d for the big screen, has been hired to pen a reboot of the 1973 sci-fi Western \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/westworld\/\" id=\"auto-tag_westworld\" data-tag=\"westworld\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westworld<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWarner Bros. is developing the reboot, which does not have a director attached. The company is in the process of being sold to Paramount Skydance, which could interrupt the studio\u2019s development slate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cJurassic Park\u201d novelist Michael Crichton wrote and directed the original \u201cWestworld,\u201d which follows guests as they visit an interactive amusement park containing lifelike androids that unexpectedly begin to malfunction. (It\u2019s a story that\u2019s familiar to fans of \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d which also centered around a novel theme park where things take a dangerous turn.) Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin starred in \u201cWestworld,\u201d which earned $10 million at the box office against a reported $1.2 million budget. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWestworld\u201d was also remade into a dystopian TV series, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton and Jeffrey Wright. Jonathan Nolan\u00a0and\u00a0Lisa Joy\u00a0created the series, which aired on HBO from 2016-2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKoepp\u2019s many credits include entries in major franchises, such as \u201cMission: Impossible,\u201d \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d and \u201cSpider-Man,\u201d as well as original films like 1992\u2019s \u201cDeath Becomes Her,\u201d 2002\u2019s \u201cPanic Room\u201d and 2005\u2019s \u201cWar of the Worlds.\u201d His recent projects include 2023\u2019s \u201cIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,\u201d two Steven Soderberg films, the 2024 supernatural story \u201cPresence\u201d and 2025 spy thriller \u201cBlack Bag,\u201d and \u201cJurassic World Rebirth.\u201d Up next, Koepp is re-teaming with frequent collaborator Steven Spielberg on this summer\u2019s alien-invasion tentpole \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d starring Emily Blunt, Josh O\u2019Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Koepp is returning to the world of twisted amusement parks. The screenwriter, best known for adapting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,83397],"class_list":["post-637451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-westworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}