Platinum Studios Inc. chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and producer Mark Canton (300: Battle of Artemisia, Immortals) announced today that they are immediately putting the Platinum Studios comic book Atlantis Rising into development for a new, ongoing film franchise. Atlantis Rising is just one of the titles in Platinum Studios’ international library of thousands of comic book characters which it adapts, produces, and licenses for all forms of media.
Created by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Atlantis Rising was first published as a five-issue mini-series that had been previously optioned to DreamWorks. Platinum Studios recently regained the production rights, allowing them to reboot the series and to team up with Mark Canton. The film is set against an undersea civilisation that began over 10,000 years ago, and whose presence is unknown to the surface population.
“Atlantis Rising has the franchise potential of Men In Black, which I green lit for Scott Mitchell Rosenberg while at Sony’s Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies,” says Mark Canton. “I’m looking forward to bringing it to the screen with Platinum as a dynamic, state of the art action thriller.”
“Atlantis Rising is a provocative sci-fi thriller that at its core brings up the question: whose planet is this?” adds Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. “We hope to duplicate that achievement after the enormous success of the Men In Black franchise.” (Source: Variety)
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