Having laid waste to large swathes of the Earth, Michael Bay now has his eyes set on the stars. According to The Wrap, the filmmaker and producer is planning to adapt interstellar yarn Time Salvager, an as-yet unpublished novel by Wesley Chu.
Time Salvager has the Interstellar-y premise of an Earth partially abandoned by humanity in favour of a future out in the cosmos. The protagonist is a convict called James Griffin-Mars, a man whose suitability for time travel sees him sent on a mission to recover the resources Earth needs to survive. Along the way he meets Elise Kim, a scientist from the past who’s destined to die on an ocean rig. Griffin-Mars brings Elise back to the future, turning them both into fugitives.
If it goes ahead – and there’s the unending Transformers franchise vying for Bay's time and energies – Time Salvager will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian.
Commented Chu on a subsequently deleted blog post: “The speed that Mark, the president of Di Bonaventura, pushed for Paramount to close the option, and the enthusiasm Michael Bay showed in attaching to Time Salvager, has been nothing short of astounding. Often, getting this far in the process can take months, if not years. This went down in a matter of weeks. It’s still going to be an uphill climb but I have complete confidence in the team that Di Bonaventura and Paramount are assembling to usher Time Salvager to the big screen.”
Bay, meanwhile, has Benghazi siege actioner **13 Hours arriving on our screens next year.