Ah, Sherlock Holmes, what hast thou wrought? Taking literary and histocial figures and making them kick ass is the newest thing, with Francis Lawrence's Marco Polo, Paul WS Anderson's Three Musketeers, Guy Ritchie's King Arthur, Moby Dick, Captain Nemo, and Moses all in various stages of prep. And who's this bearded figure clambering onto the bandwagon? Why, it's Leonardo da Vinci!
Yup, THR's Heatvision blog is reporting that Warners have scored a treatment from Adrian Askarieh (producer of Hitman and the upcoming Kane and Lynch and Jonny Quest) with the Indiana Jones-ish title Leonardo da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever. The plot sets up the 15th century polymath as "a member of a secret society who falls headlong into a supernatural adventure that pits him against Biblical demons in a story involving secret codes, lost civilizations, hidden fortresses and fallen angels."
THR suggest National Treasure, and Clash of the Titans as touchstones, although we're having minor flashbacks to Hudson Hawk and Star Trek: Voyager. Still, da Vinci was pretty kick-ass: he lived in the 15th century but didn't let that stop him from designing machine guns, tanks, helicopters, suspension bridges, submersibles and robots. Yes, really.
Warners are now looking for a writer to pick up Askarieh's idea and run with it. Where do we apply for the job where you just vaguely think of something random and then get someone else to write it?