Paramount Pictures has hired comicbook author Grant Morrison to pen the feature adaptation of vidgame franchise Area 51, according to Variety. Christine Peters will produce through her Par-based CFP Prods. with Penn Station's Dean Georgaris and Michael Aguilar, along with Stan Winston. Paramount picked up to the film rights to "Area 51" from Midway Games in 2004. Game was released in April 2005. Set in the U.S. government's most top-secret military facility, storyline revolves around a hazardous materials specialist who is called in to investigate a viral outbreak that could be extra-terrestrial in nature. Georgaris penned an earlier draft of Area 51 and is working on WE3 for New Line.
Holy crap! if this is written anything like his comics, this movie is gonna be insane and confusing! i cant wait!
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