Merrick here...

As previously reported (HERE), Kurtzman and Orci are looking to adapt Scott Mitchell Rosenberg's ATLANTIS RISING comics over at DreamWorks.

And, as you can probably conjecture from the headline, the project now looks to be one step closer to reality with the addition of Len Wiseman as director.

[INSERT OBLIGATORY WISEMAN BASHING HERE]

Wiseman's name has recently been attached to at least 9,372,441,864,031 projects. Among them: the struggling & wholly unnecessary ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake (for which Ratner was later indicated, if you can imagine such a thing) & the GEARS OF WAR movie, which fell off the radar and hasn't been heard from for a while (unless I missed something, which I may have).

It's too early in the morning to start drinking here. Although, it's already later in the day somewhere on Earth...