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EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has acquired screen rights to Area 52, and will develop a live action adaptation based on the four-issue comic book series published in 2001. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce, and JC Spink will be executive producer through Benderspink. The comic focused on a top secret warehouse in Antarctica called Area 52, a government storage dump for otherworldly discoveries, manned by a ragtag group of misfits who have been exiled to the middle of nowhere to staff it. When an alien killing machine is accidentally hatched in this repository, the group must band together and use the stored mythological weapons and artifacts to save themselves and the world. They are tying up the underlying rights to the Brian Haberlin comic, and will go out to writers shortly. Di Bonaventura and Vahradian are coming off Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Red, the latter for Summit. Benderspink most recently exec produced I Am Number Four and The Hangover 2.
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My God we just keep rehashing the same old same old.
Steven C. Miller was suppose to make this back three years ago before it got stuck in development hell. I wonder if he is involved still in some capacity.
Didn’t Paramount & Oren Peli do a found footage film with this exact same premise like 2 years ago? Where the hell is that?
Now THERE’S a Deadline story: What the hell happened to Oren Peli’s AREA 51?
Somebody get on that one.
seriously… when can this business realize that not EVERY comic book and graphic novel is a “brand” with value? Yes, some are. Most are not. This business is being run by people who grew up consuming popular culture instead of experiencing things and it’s starting to show.
Maybe this could be a TV series, on a cable network, like SyFy, and it could be called “Warehouse 13″.
THE THING anyone?
I thought the prequel to “the Thing” was coming out in October?
Red Dawn meets The Thing. Pass
We can expect more genius, coherent storytelling from the tasteful force behind TRANSFORMERS and GI JOE.
And yes, the former especially made money, but now there is no major, beloved toy brand behind which to hide.
Just locked down rights for AREA 53 and AREA 54. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
Here’s an interesting exercise; visit YouTube and watch any of the Academy Award best picture nominations from the 1970s. Every single nominee is a stand out movie that is still talked about today. Go to the eighties and you usually get three stand out movies per year. Nineties gives us one or two per year. So far this century we get one per year if we’re lucky. Even if this derivative nonsense gets made, it will be forgotten the a week after opening weekend. What makes movies great is character, character, character.
DEBUNKED: Great movies, but nobody talks about PATTON, ANNIE HALL, THE STING, THE DEER HUNTER, and KRAMER VS. KRAMER anymore.
I love it! I’ve been watching it on SyFy for 3 years now. It’s called WAREHOUSE 13.
It was one thing when well-known Marvel and DC comics were getting the movie treatment but now every obscure indie book from 1999-on is getting optioned. I knew something was up when “Surrogates” got made. I mean, gotdamn! Agents, where can I send a package???????
Mark Vahradian is a huge BEAST!
I couldn’t agree more with Fan. It’s all about character even in science fiction stories. It’s okay to rehash similar themes and even similar plots as long as it is a fresh take with a character or characters worth caring about.
At least this is not a reboot or a remake. I never read this four issue comic so to me it’s an original story.
Reminds me of another story titled, Alien Attraction. Set in an Area-51 like military facility where we learn it’s not about keeping humans out, but more about keeping resident aliens inside…
some people are apparently very into sell it don’t smell it…