Godzilla, King Kong, and a sorcerer-like Spook are a few of the characters screenwriter Max Borenstein has recently explored. He's a scribe in demand of late. Legendary liked what they saw in Max's screenplay for Godzilla and hired him to write the King Kong origin movie, Skull Island, and now Steven Spielberg has brought the writer on to pen a TV series based on his 2002 sci-fi film, Minority Report.
TheWrap reports that legendary director Steven Spielberg is moving forward with a TV series based on the concepts and world of his Minority Report movie. Though still early in development, the project is starting to solidify with Spielberg's recent hiring of Max Borenstein to write the series.
For those not familiar with the source material, the 2002 film takes place in the year 2054 and follows a PreCrime police force led by Captain John Anderton (Tom Cruise) that uses mutated humans known as "precogs" to predict future murders and help stop them before they occur. After the precogs predict Anderton will commit a murder in less than two days, he goes on the run. The film is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.
Expected to be a weekly series, the Minority Report television show will focus on a top-notch PreCrime unit, with Spielberg reportedly looking for an A-list actor to headline the show. The TV series is expected to simply be called Minority Report.
Max Borenstein wrote the screenplay for Gareth Edwards' Godzilla, which has grossed over $500 million worldwide and will expand in a sequel due out on June 8th, 2018. He also scribed the upcoming fantasy-action film, Seventh Son, for Legendary, and is currently penning the studio's Skull Island movie, which will bring King Kong back to the big screen on November 4th, 2016.
No further details on the Minority Report TV series are known at this time, but we'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on this show as it moves along in development. Are you excited to see the world of Minority Report on the small screen, or would you rather it not come to fruition? Let us know in the comments section below.
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