Rumor: JJ Abrams Is Working On New Sci-Fi Series For TV

JJ Abrams has written a script for a new science fiction series for television, according to sources from The Hollywood Reporter. Both HBO and Apple are reportedly in the running to buy the rights.

The drama series, which will partly take place in space, is about a family who has a serious car accident. When the mother, a scientist, falls into a coma, her daughter investigates. She discovers experiments in her mother’s lab in the basement of the house and is teleported to another world, where a battle against evil forces takes place. Her father follows her to this new world.

Warner Bros. would produce, while JJ Abrams and Ben Stephenson of Bad Robot Productions serve as executive producers. It is unclear when the series will be released. Neither Warner Bros, Apple nor HBO declined to respond to a request for comment from The Hollywood Reporter.

In film, Abrams has directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens and produced The Last Jedi, but as far as TV series is concerned, he hasn’t written a series himself since 2008’s Lost and Fringe. He was, however, involved as an executive producer on HBO’s science fiction series Westworld and 11.22.63. The latter title is a series in which a teacher goes back in time to prevent the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.

In early December, there was also a rumor that JJ Abrams will be making a new Star Trek movie with Quentin Tarantino. That reported film site Deadline based on anonymous sources. If it all goes through, Tarantino will be directing and Abrams producing.