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.

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Len Wiseman Jumps In The Motorcade

Fresh off his success with Live Free or Die Hard (which I actually thought was quite a fun ride, everything else aside), Len Wiseman has signed on to direct Motorcade for a freshly Paramount-free DreamWorks Studios. The movie will center around a group of terrorists who attack the Presidential Motorcade as it travels through Los Angeles. Hm...Die Hard 5, anyone?

Billy Ray, the very competent screenwriter behind movies like Breach, rewrote the original draft by Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell. I'm not sure what to make of this one. It sounds a bit derivative and seems like Wiseman might be retreading old territory, but I guess familiar ground isn't so bad when it comes with $383 million of worldwide grosses.

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