"Lost In Space" almost has returned to television.

Vairety is reporting that Kevin Burns and Jon Jashni's Synthesis Entertainment is teaming up with film director John Woo and writer Doug Petrie on a brand new version of the 1960s science-fiction television show, not to return it to the big screen, but to bring it back to television sets at home.

The show will be produced by Regency and 20th Century Fox Television along with Lion Rock Productions.

Synthesis has been working on this project for some time, originally planning an NBC television movie. That project was dropped, however, following the death of Jonathan Harris, who played Dr. Smith in the original series.

No network has committed to the new series yet, but insiders have reported to Variety that there already is a lot of interest in the series. The series was made into a movie by New Line Cinema in the late 1990s, but bombed. Many blamed a confusing storyline for the failure.

Burns told Variety that the Jupiter Project will be set about 100 years in the future and will have a television family that people can relate to.

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