Snap! ALFONSO CUARON teaming up with J.J. ABRAMS for an NBC pilot.

This is one way to get me to give a fuck about J.J. Abrams again. Team the son of a bitch up with Alfonso Cuaron. Homeboy hasn’t done much in quite the minute, and now we’re getting Gravity and this? Sign me up.

/Film:

Yes, J.J. Abrams is set to produce another possible show for NBC. This one however, which already has a network commitment to at least produce a pilot, is a bit different.Alfonso Cuaron, the director of Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, will co-write and direct the pilot, which sounds like a girl-power blend ofHeroes and The Terminator. The show, which is still untitled, is about a girl with special powers that won’t fully blossom for seven years and the man who is broken out of prison to protect her until then.

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Deadline broke the news of the project which, in addition to Cuaron and Abrams, will also be written by Mark Friedman (Home Of the Brave), produced by Bryan Burk (Lost) and Kathy Lingg (Fringe).

The show marks the first foray into American television for Cuaron, who will likely direct the pilot sometime after finishing his next film, Gravity. Originally scheduled for release November 2012, intensive effects work on the George Clooney/Sandra Bullock film pushed it into an unspecified 2013 slot.