Atlantis Attacks Hollywood

Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on April 16th, 2008

Atlantis Rising, the Platinum Studios comic book from Scott O. Brown and Tim Irwin, has been optioned by DreamWorks for a live-action feature.  Genre vets Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been tapped to produce with Platinum’s Scott Mitchell Rosenberg also involved.

The five-issue miniseries, concluding this month, tells of an underground civilization that begins to cause concern among the surface world’s governments.  A war between surface and sea is inevitable, it seems.

“The comic brings a fresh, techno-thriller approach to a story that holds all the tenets of a classic us-vs.-them alien invasion movie,” Kurtzman told The Hollywood Reporter. Orci added, “No sea horses or tridents here.”

Rosenberg founded Platinum as an idea factory beginning with comics and graphic novels, available either in print or digitally, to be further exploited as film, video games, novels, or other media.  They made a splash with their print debut late last year, Cowboys vs. Aliens, which was already optioned by DreamWorks for Orci and Kurtzman to develop.

The duo have become the kingpins of genre films gaining notice first with The Legend of Zorro and have gone on to write Transformers and the current Star Trek feature.  For television they partnered again with Trek director J.J. Abrams to develop Fringe for Fox.

Their next film is an original, Eagle Eye with Shia LaBeouf.