Bradley Cooper Could Be Returning to TV...With a Twist

CBS has ordered another movie-to-TV pilot

Bradley Cooper's coming back to TV...maybe!

Of course, you already knew he was going to appear in Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer prequel series, but that's not what we're talking about. According to The Hollywood Reporter, CBS picked up a pilot called Limitless, based on the movie of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Cooper. While Cooper's not starring in the series, he is listed as an executive producer, along with Neil Burger, who directed the film, and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and about 10 other people.

The pilot, written by Craig Sweeny (Elementary), serves as a sequel to the film, in which a man (played by Cooper in the flick) became extremely financially successful after taking a drug called NZT that allows him to access 100 percent of his brain, giving him all kinds of impressive abilities. The series will follow a man who uses his own NZT-influenced abilities to help the FBI solve cases, which is good because according to television, the FBI is totally inept on its own.

This is the first TV project for Cooper's production company with Todd Phillips, though they also had a hand in producing the original movie. Cooper previously starred in Alias and Kitchen Confidential before heading to the big screen.

CBS already has another movie-to-TV pilot on hand this season with Rush Hour, based on the 1998 movie in which a Hong Kong police inspector (Jackie Chan) is forced to work with an LAPD officer (Chris Tucker) and many hijinks ensue. The script for the series, which follows roughly the same concept, comes from Bill Lawrence of Scrubs and Cougar Town fame, and the movie's director, Brett Ratner, is on board to executive produce.

CBS has also ordered several other pilots, including comedy projects by Modern Family's Bill Wrubel and Dan O'Shannon, Samantha Who's Tad Quill, and a new version of Greg Garcia's Super Clyde, which originally starred Rupert Grint as a fast-food worker who decides to become a superhero.

The Limitless pilot is just one of many movie adaptations in the works at various networks. If you want a network to take a look at your show, it seems you better make sure it has a movie or a comic book as its source material.