I am – Hercules!!

J. Michael Straczynski, who created “Babylon 5” and “Jeremiah” before he scripted Clint Eastwood’s new period drama “The Changling,” has been hired to script a remake of “Forbidden Planet” for Joel Silver and Warner Bros.

The Hollywood Reporter describes the original, based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”:

Released in 1956, "Planet" told the tale of an expedition sent from Earth to check on a colony of scientists on a far-off planet. They find two members, a man who has found alien technology that doubled his intellect, Dr. Morbius, and his daughter, both of whom have managed to survive an unseen monster roaming the planet.

Read all of the Reporter’s story on the matter here.