With a writer's room set
and ready to breathe some much needed creativity into the Transformers
franchise, director Michael Bay is free to pursue other projects, like the Benghazi
drama 13 Hours, or a new sci-fi.
The Wrap reports that
Bay is attached to helm the adaptation of Wesley Chu's upcoming sci-fi novel
Time Salvager for Paramount with Transformers yes men producers Lorenzo
di Bonaventura, and Mark Vahradian.
Convicted criminal
James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned
world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a
fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible
for delaying humanity’s demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have
identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few
ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen’s highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.
The book sounds like
a mishmash of ideas from other more intimate sci-fi projects like Looper, or 12
Monkeys and that can be a good thing, but having someone who is mainly known
for not being that might be a reason for concern.
Source - The Wrap
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