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J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is working with Person of Interest‘s Jonathan Nolan, producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros. Television to reboot Michael Crichton’s classic tale of robotics, Westworld for HBO.

The new project has a pilot production commitment for the script by Nolan and Burn Notice‘s Lisa Joy, and is described as a ‘dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin’. It’s the second time Westworld has been adapted for television: the short-lived Beyond Westworld (partly directed by the late Ted Post) was a sequel to both the original 1973 film, which starred Yul Brynner, and the sequel Futureworld.