Marc Webb's** Amazing Spider-Man** experiences may have left him with a bruise or two but he remains a director with visual flair and an eye for character. A good pick, in other words, to shepherd the pilot of CBS's TV adaptation of Bradley Cooper sci-fi **Limitless **to the small screen.
According to Deadline's scoop, he'll be taking the reins from Neil Burger, the man who brought **Limitless **to the big screen in 2011. Burger has been waylaid on the New York shoot of another pilot, Showtime's Wall Street drama Billions.
If you didn't see it, the original **Limitless **is a pharma-powered thriller - Lucy without the superheroics and all that Morgan Freeman exposition - in which schlebby journo Brian Sinclair is transformed into a cerebral powerhouse when he stumbles upon a secretive new drug called NZT. The TV pilot will translate the premise into a procedural in which the FBI exploit Sinclair's enhanced mind to solve crimes.
Burger stays on board as an executive producer along with Bradley Cooper, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. No word yet on who will replace Cooper in the lead role.