An awesome team up for geeks today. Jon Favreau and J.J. Abrams will be working together on the NBC pilot Revolution.
Deadline reports that Favreau will direct the project from Abrams and Eric Kripke, creator of Supernatural. Kripke wrote the script for the pilot and will serve along with Abrams as an executive producer along with Bryan Burk.
The show revolves around a group of characters in a world were "all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist." The main objective of this tiny group of survivors is to stay alive and reunite with the loved ones they have been separated from.
The "high-octane action drama" will be the first drama pilot for Favreau. He has directed comedies before like the David Arquette starring In Case of Emergency and he is set to helm the comedy pilot Tweaked over at CBS.
Tweaked is the project that Favreau wrote on spec and was given the greenlight in October. As of now, no casting has been done and could possibly be shot outside of the regular pilot season.
