Exciting news for Westworld fans—the show's creators just announced their next project.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan are adapting sci-fi thriller The Peripheral by William Gibson. The story is set in America in the future, where technology has started changing society. The lead character, Flynne Fisher, believes she witnesses a murder while covering for her brother at his security job, which they both think is taking place in cyberspace.
The new show is being made for Amazon Studios following a bidding war for the project. Amazon has given the show a script-to-series order, meaning it's extremely likely it will be picked up for a full season—without the need for a traditional pilot to be made.
The Verge reports that novel The Peripheral "is a complicated story about time travel, divergent futures, religious protest groups, and a massive corporation called Hefty Mart. It takes place both in an economically barren U.S. town and in a post-apocalyptic London." Clearly, Joy and Nolan's next TV show will be every bit as ambitious as Westworld, and will continue to explore futuristic storylines in unexpected locations.
Amazon Studios has been hoping to secure its own series to rival Game of Thrones, according to The Verge, and multiple reports concur that The Peripheral could be the project the studio has been looking for. If successful, The Peripheral will sit alongside the studio's Lord of the Rings adaptation as one of its most important properties.
Season 2 of Westworld starts on HBO on Sunday, April 22.
