Ready Player One screenwriter Zak Penn has signed up to adapt ROM: Spaceknight for Hasbro’s recently launched Allspark Pictures and Paramount.
As reported by Deadline, Allspark and Paramount will move forward on bringing ROM: Spaceknight to the screen with Ready Player One writer Zak Penn handling the screenplay. Penn also confirmed the news about ROM to us, during an interview where he was promoting Ready Player One.
At Marvel, ROM became re-imagined as ROM: Spaceknight, a cyborg strikingly similar in design to a Transformer.
After some negative early buzz due laregly to questionable marketing, the nostalgia driven Ready Player One received rave reviews following its SXSW screening.