"Originals" creator Julie Plec is set to direct "Roswell" reboot pilot at CW.
Plec will also serve as executive producer if the drama moves to series, reported Variety.
The project is based on the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz.
The untitled project would follow the daughter of undocumented immigrants who reluctantly returns to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico. There she discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: hes an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life.
She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
Plec most recently directed an episode of the CW's "Riverdale" and previously helmed multiple installments of "The Vampire Diaries".
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