Joby Harold Dives Into Atlantis Rising

Joby Harold, the writer of last year's Awake, is in negotiations to write an adaptation of the comic book series "Atlantis Rising." The project currently has Len Wiseman attached to direct, with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (the writing team behind Mission: Impossible III, Transformers, and the forthcoming Star Trek) set to produce. The original series was created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who will also serve as a producer. The story centers around an underwater civilization (presumably from the titular lost city) that surfaces and wages an all-out war against humanity. Dreamworks is looking to turn this into a big budget sci-fi epic along the lines of James Cameron's Aliens, and hopes to set it up as a tentpole film in the summer of 2011. Harold also wrote Army of the Dead, the Las Vegas zombie war movie being produced by Zack Snyder, and an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel Ronin. We'll keep an eye out to see how this one develops.