Director Erica Watson has been signed to direct the pilot episode of The 4400  reboot in the works.

Watson will also serve as co-executive producer on the episode in addition this making credits

The 4400' reboot  has been scheduled tas series at CW . Watson's television directing credits include  Claws,' Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G and All American.

Ariana Jackson will write and executive produce the reboot CBS Studios will produce the project.

The reboot focuses on 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalised people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.

"As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they've been returned with a few upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason," the logline reads. 

The original version, which ran from 2004 to 2007, was created by Rene Echevarria and Scott Peters. It featured actors Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Conchita Campbell and Mahershala Ali.