Message posted by Peter A. Forkes on April 05, 2007 at 7:26:18 PST:

Paramount Pictures has hired popular comicbook author Grant Morrison to pen the feature adaptation of the 2005 vidgame franchise "Area 51" says Variety.

Set in the U.S. government's most top-secret military facility, storyline revolves around a hazardous materials specialist who is called in to investigate a viral outbreak that could be extra-terrestrial in nature.

Christine Peters, Dean Georgaris, Michael Aguilar, and Stan Winston will produce. Spinoff vidgame "Blacksite: Area 51" will be released this summer

Morrison's most recent screenplay, "WE3," is being developed at New Line.

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