Screenwriters Give Update on J.J. Abrams' Micronauts Movie

G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick recently chatted up their in-development screen adaptation of the comic book and toy franchise Micronauts. The project has been set-up for sometime at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company and Paramount Pictures.

“We've written a couple of drafts of Micronauts and it's in the Paramount system now,” Wernick told Movies.com.“We developed it with Bad Robot, and it's probably not what you might imagine a Micronauts movie to be.”

“It departs from the comic wildly, so if you hope it's loyal to the comic you'll be disappointed in that particular sense,” said Reese. “However, it's very, very different and very, very cool. Bad Robot has a strict secrecy enforcement policy, so we can't talk about details except to say that it's different from the comic.”

Added Wernick, “Yeah, it's different from anything you might expect.”

The Mego Corporation introduced the Microman toy line in Japan in 1974, rebranding it as "Micronauts" for its American release two years later. There were five series of Micronauts toys produced from 1974-1980. Palisades Toys produced more series of Micronauts toys from 2002-03.

In addition to the toys, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, and Devil's Due Publishing have all published Micronauts comic book series over the past 30 years. The Marvel title lasted the longest, running from 1979-84. Fans looking forward to the Micronauts movie should bear in mind that some popular characters and terms (such as Microverse) are Marvel creations and, thus, can't be used in a non-Marvel movie.

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