According to The Wrap, Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi classic "Minority Report" is coming to the small screen as a new TV series. The series is being developed as a weekly drama that is slated to be written by "Godzilla" writer Max Borenstein and produced by Spielberg's production shingle Amblin Television.
The Oscar-winning director produced this summer's TV series, "Extant," starring Halle Berry, but it did not make much of a splash in the ratings. There is no word yet which network will grab "Minority Report," but with Spielberg's name attached it will surely find a home somewhere.
Not much is known about the progress of the new series, according to The Wrap, and Spielberg's camp is mum on disclosing any details about the new show. The movie, which made over $350 million worldwide, is based on the futuristic story by sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick. The movie starred Tom Cruise as Chief John Anderton as the head of "PreCrime," a police task force that, through the use of three psychic "precogs" (Pre-Cognitives), is able to find and arrest murderers before the actual crime happens.
Through an advanced device and the precogs, the PreCrime unit is able to determine whether or not the murders were premeditated, crimes of passion or are circumstantial. When Anderton himself is suspected of murder, the plot unfolds into a story of corruption with deadly implications as the Chief tries to clear his name.
Despite Comedy Central's new show "The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore," there are no plans for either program to change their names. The 2002 film has continued to gain fans as the years have rolled by moving up on the list of IMDB's top 250 films. Comparisons to J.J. Abrams' hit drama "Person of Interest" are inevitable, but "Minority Report" will have the advantage of using the future production design as an important plot device. The movie was filled with new tech and everything from jet packs to cars that could move both horizontally and vertically.
Spielberg is currently hard at work on a Cold War thriller starring fellow multiple Oscar winner Tom Hanks, before moving on to "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" scribe Roald Dahl's "The BFG." Despite this list of projects, it is rumored that Spielberg will be closely involved in the development of the "Minority Report" series. Scribe Borenstein's modern retelling of "Godzilla" netted over $500 million at the box office this summer, and he is all set to pen the sequel due in theaters on June 8, 2018. Currently, Borenstein is hard at work on "Skull Island" for Legendary pictures .
