Minority Report Coming to TV From Steven Spielberg and Godzilla Writer

Max Borenstein, who wrote the most recent iteration of Godzilla for director Gareth Edwards, will next tackle a TV adaptation of the Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg film Minority Report.

The project, which is still in very early stages of development, is expected to start the pitch process tomorrow, per Deadline. It's just one of a number of stand-alone feature films or novels that's being turned into TV series in the last few years, hoping to capitalize on the existing awareness and fan base of a franchise. Other examples include Parenthood and About a Boy, Bad Teacher and more.

The film was set in a future where a special police unit is assigned to arrest suspects before a crime happens, based on psychic visions that pre-emptively prove them guilty. In the film, Cruise's character upended the system, questioning the validity of the psychic visions after he became wanted for a murder he had no reason to commit.

It's difficult to picture how the film would translate to a TV series; would the series follow the exploits of the officers conducting the pre-emptive arrests in the time before the flaws in the system were revealed? Would it follow a wrongly-accused person trying to upend the system like the movie (a premise that seems like it's got a fairly short shelf life)? Borenstein's biggest challenge may be coming up with a way to stretch the premise into a TV series without essentially making the hero of the show one of the movie's bad guys.

Spielberg's Amblin TV is producing the series, along with 20th Century Fox Television and Paramount TV (as well as Borenstein).