Westworld’ Remake Officially Sets ‘Jurassic Park’ Reunion With Major Update.

Over fifty years after it first graced movie screens, Westworld is saddling back up. The film was a precursor to Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, so it’s only appropriate that one of the people who turned that bestselling book into a Hollywood blockbuster is part of the posse that’s set to bring Westworld back to the big screen.

According to reports, David Koepp has been tapped to pen a new version of Westworld for Warner Bros. Koepp has a long history with the late Crichton, who wrote and directed the original 1973 film. Koepp adapted Crichton’s 1990 novel, Jurassic Park, into Steven Spielberg’s box-office-devouring smash hit; Koepp would go on to adapt Crichton’s dino-sequel, The Lost World (and was eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex in the resulting film), and returned to pen last year’s Jurassic World: Rebirth, which adapted a never-filmed sequence from Crichton’s original novel. He was also tapped to write an adaptation of Crichton’s posthumous novel Pirate Latitudes for Spielberg, but the film never came to fruition. Most recently, he wrote the upcoming science fiction thriller Disclosure Day for Spielberg, which will hit theaters this summer.