The big-screen adaptation of Platinum Studios' "Atlantis Rising" could have a writer in the near future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, writer/director Joby Harold is in talks to pen the script for the film, with Len Wiseman ("Underworld") attached to direct the Dreamworks project.
Harold's most prominent project thus far is the 2007 thriller "Awake," starring Jessica Alba and Hayden Christensen, which he wrote and directed. He is also working on an upcoming adaptation of Frank Miller's "Ronin" for Warner Bros.
In the 5-part "Atlantis Rising" miniseries, which concluded in April, a new civilization is discovered deep beneath the sea and goes to war with the planet's land-dwelling inhabitants. The series is written by Scott O. Brown based on a concept by Platinum Chairman and CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who is producing the film along with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Kurtzman and Orci are the duo responsible for scripting "Transformers" and next year's "Star Trek."
According to THR, the film is envisioned as a "big-budget, effects-driven sci-fi war movie in the vein of the James Cameron-directed 'Aliens' and 'The Abyss,'" with a Summer 2011 release planned.
"In all the classic versions of this kind of movie, the threat is always from the stars," Orci told THR. "The idea that it's somehow our cousins who went off in a different path of evolution who have been here, literally, underneath our oceans. ... That's fascinating, the idea of secrets right under your nose."
Along with "Atlantis Rising," Platinum Studios also has the miniseries "Cowboys and Aliens" in development with Dreamworks. (MTV spoke to the "Cowboys and Aliens" screenwriters about the status of the project in September.)
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