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EXCLUSIVE: Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese are getting the job turning the Hasbro toyline Micronauts into a feature film for JJ Abrams and Paramount Pictures. Along with the prospect of another Transformers film, Micronauts was one of the Hasbro brands mentioned as a priority project in a third quarter earnings conference call for investors today by Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner. Paramount recently made a deal with Hasbro for the property, to be produced by Bad Robot’s Abrams and Bryan Burk and Hasbro’s Goldner and Bennett Schneir. Micronauts marks another big job for a scribe team that had its breakthrough with Zombieland. They followed with G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, which is now in production with Jon M. Chu directing and Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis joining a returning cast that includes Channing Tatum. The scribes wrote the X-Men spinoff film Deadpool for Fox, which has Ryan Reynolds attached to play the character he originated in Wolverine, and visual effects wiz Tim Miller set to direct. Wernick & Rheese are also adapting the graphic novel Cowboy Ninja Viking for Disney. The scribes are repped by WME.
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This is getting ridiculous.
Wow. These guys hit really it big with Zombieland. (It was a fun movie) They’re getting signed up for some of the biggest, highest profile projects.
I wonder if their follow-up acts will be good.
they’re just getting paid. I don’t blame them. It’s all crap. But those are the jobs out there.
Rhett Reese: nice guy, talented guy. I’ve thought so for a long time.
The other guy? I dunno.
Paramount is getting duped on this deal.
1) The toy line is not as well regarded as the Marvel Comics series, neither of which ever reached the success or awareness of G.I. Joe or Transformers.
2) Hasbro doesn’t own all the Micronauts characters outright like they do with G.I. Joe. Marvel retains a number of characters and scenarios from Bill Mantlo’s respected run on the comic series.
3) Bill Mantlo is severley brain-damaged from an accident and can’t lend the PR to the brand that Hasbro was able to afford nostalgic 80′s fans during the campaign to re-launch the brand.
Without the popularity/awareness or complete access to the pre-existing character/story rights & well regarded comics… I’m assuming Hasbro is the only one to benefit here. They get the development profits and JJ Abrams marquee value, while Bad Robot gets suckered by some earnest creative exec’s misplaced childhood brand nostalgia.
Wait, does this mean G.I.Joe 2 is going to be funny? The first one was not funny. At least not intentionally.
God damn branded entertainment. God damn it.
Epic Zombie Photobomb
“Micronauts” is a way of doing “Fantastic Voyage” without owning “Fantastic Voyage.” And considering last time I checked, James Cameron was involved in “Fantastic Voyage,” I’d say there was a good chance “Micronauts” makes it to the screen first.
Um, no. Micronauts was innerspace, Fantastic Voyage was inside a human body. Completely different.
Uhm, no, Innerspace was inside a human body as well. A couple of them. Also inside a dog’s body, iirc.
So is Deadpool with Reynolds a “go” now that Green Lantern is dead (even though Geoff Johns is in denial and probably hoping not to be fired for championing that colossal failure.)
Yes, Green Lantern and put out by WB and is DC and Deadpool is Marvel and I think will be a Fox production.
There is nothing negative to say about this. Micronauts as an entertainment franchise is the perfect vehicle to sell toys.
Movies don’t sell tickets or DVDs anymore so if you want all your “below the line” friends to keep their job, you should all be rooting for Micronauts.
“Movies don’t sell tickets or DVDs anymore so if you want all your “below the line” friends to keep their job, you should all be rooting for Micronauts.”
This is the attitude that’s killing the business. So long as it’s just about the job, there will be less and less work as time goes on.
Rhett and Paul are great guys…finally decent people getting real recognition…i dont go to the movies anymore because ive lost interest but i will be going to whatever movie these dudes write ya heard…WAY TO GO “NATURE-BOY”
Hollywood worries about weak box office, and then preps movie about obscure obsolete toys. My Little Pony has more name brand recognition. But if you’ve got great writers you can fling anything against the wall and it’ll stick. I am guessing audiences are growing tired of this; how to prove that though? Oh yeah, people are paying less and less for the same crap.
Micro lens flares everywhere, beautiful man, beautiful.
Micronauts doesn’t have the brand recognition of Transformers but it has the foundation for a slick movie. The Marvel version had a Star Wars feel to it:
Baron Karza = Darth Vader
Acturus Rann = Combo of Luke/Ben
Enigma Force = the Force
Acroyears sword = lightsaber
Biotron & Microtron = C3PO and R2D2
Marionette = Princess Leia
It’s been sometime for kids to have that ‘Darth Vader’ bad guy to think was cool. (Other than the latest 3 Star Wars) It has energy swords, cool armor (acroyear), enigma force, comedic relief if they allow Bug in it…kids will eat this up..been waiting for this movie forever and I think it will do well and the toy line will likely sell like hotcakes and surpass anything the previous toyline did.
Please let the movie be as enjoyable as I remember one of my most favorite comic books was. I am so looking forward to seeing this when it comes out!
As a lifelong fan of the toys and the comics (Mantlo’s, not the poorly done Image crap…) I am just waiting for another inevitable disappointment. Anyone who’s kept tabs on the constant failure of the franchise over the years like I have knows that the Micronauts have something akin to the Red Sox curse. Proposed cartoons that never materialize, the aforementioned half ass treatment at Image because it wasn’t GI Joe or even worse, the Transformers. That last part is the hardest to deal with. I baffles me that something so ingenious as the Micronauts gets glossed over by something as creatively bankrupt as the Transformers. Transformers are to me what Gobots are to Transformers fans, lacking imagination at every turn and completely devoid of imagination. The truth of the matter is that the Micronauts failed to taker off because of two things: The undeniable Star Wars juggernaut, and the fact that frankly, most kids are just stupid and wouldn’t know creativity from their own rectum. That’s right, you’re all morons, I refuse to imply it, I am coming right out and saying it. You’re all waiting for the next Comicon, because God knows you’re completely incapable of coming up with something as forward thinking and inspired as the Micronauts. You need a cartoon to facilitate your imagination , because you can’t do it on your own. What a letdown you all are. This is why I have steered clear of Comicon, a cacaphony of wasted youth if there ever was one.