When it rains, it pours or at least that seems to be the case with film updates after Hasbro announced their plans in their quarterly meeting two days ago. One of the films mentioned in the meeting were the Micronauts, and depending on your age you may have no clue what the heck a Micronaut is, much less be excited for it to be made into a film.
Deadline reports that Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, the writing team behind Zombieland and the upcoming G.I. Joe sequel have been hired on to start on a script for a bunch of giant toy robots. Yeah if you are thinking great a knock off version of Transformers, you are slightly mistaken. Micronauts are toys and later were a comic series that mixed robots with interchangeable parts, similar to Transformers in a sense but mix that with say Lego’s or some other building toy.
Now where does J.J Abrams fit into this strange puzzle? Well surprisingly enough he has been talking about making a Micronauts film for a few years now and it seems like his wish has come true and he will have Paramount backing him up. For a fairly small fan base, it seems like Paramount and Abrams are hoping for big things with this toy line.
Peter Sciretta over at /film has done the research for us and this is what he has found out about the 1970’s toyline:
First released in Japan in 1974, the toys were later imported to the U.S. in 1976. The line consisted of 3.75-inch tall action figures, vehicles, robots, play sets, and accessories which used a universal, five millimeter inter-connective design. It should also be mentioned that a series of Micronauts comic books were published by Marvel Comics and Image Comics. The original series was written by Bill Mantlo and featured art by Michael Golden, Howard Chaykin, Pat Broderick, Gil Kane, Butch Guice and others.
According to the comic book created storyline, the Micronauts originate in the Microverse, “a microscopic series of diverse habitats that are linked together in the fashion of molecule chains. The original team comes together in response to the threat posed by former academic and now murderous dictator, Baron Karza. Commander Arcturus Rann (returning from a thousand-year deep space voyage in suspended animation) and Biotron, his robot co-pilot, return on the HMS (Homeworld Micro Ship) Endeavor, to discover Karza has slain the royal family, who are in fact Rann’s parents. What follows is an epic war across the Microverse: Rann and his allies against Karza.”
I’m not really sure about this becoming a film, but I could see it as a cartoon to kind of introduce a younger generation to the universe and then work towards a live action film.
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