Akiva Goldsman, fresh from his writer’s room duties on the Transformers franchise, has made moved his Weed Road banner over to Paramount for a two-year first look deal that’ll see Goldsman directing and producing a number of projects for the studio, including a comic series from Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, a bestselling novel series, and a few genre franchise-starters.
Next, Paramount has acquired the rights to Ologies, a.k.a. those books you’d see on the YA shelves that treated mythological and magical themes like textbook material.
Then, Goldsman has also been tasked with developing and directing an Avengelyne movie, based on Rob Leifeld’s comic series about a fallen angel with powerful blood who fights demons on Earth and is humanity’s last hope once Armageddon hits.
In the book, ex-Navy Seal Clark is chosen to head an international counterterrorism task force.