Fox Is Doing a Female-Led Sequel to Minority Report

What order will they air the episodes in this time?

Via The Hollywood Reporter, a television sequel to the 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report has been picked up by Fox with “with a hefty put-pilot commitment with a significant penalty attached.” Which is technical talk, I know, but what it means is that if Fox flakes Steven Spielberg gets to ride a dragon into their headquarters and give everyone on the Board of Directors purple nurples. You can trust me. I know things.

The original film, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story “The Minority Report,” was about a future in which “precogs” can see crimes before they are committed. Ooh, and Tom Cruise chases an eyeball down a hallway. The sequel, according to THR:

“takes place 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. when one of the three Precogs struggles to lead a ‘normal’ human life but remains haunted by visions of the future. He meets a detective haunted by her past who just may help him find a purpose to his gift.”

Sounds fairly… normal. Sounds a little like Fox’s Sleepy Hollow, actually, in the whole “special” person is assisted by a more “everyday Jane” law enforcement professional sort of way. Ditto Alfonso Cuarón’s Believe, which never really found an audience and was cancelled after a few months.

Regardless, we have two sentences so far, so we’ll all just have to wait and see. Max Borenstein, who wrote this summer’s Godzilla reboot, will write and executive produce.

Fox, you wanna get Karl Urban or Michael Ealy for the precog and Lily Taylor as the detective? I heard they’re free.

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