Michael Bay to make "2012: The War for Souls"

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Friday, March 16, 2007
Source: TMZ

According to TMZ.com, Michael Bay has signed on to produce and possibly direct the upcoming adaptation of the sci-fi novel, 2012: The War for Souls.

There are next to no details on the book available online, but TMZ had this to say regarding a possible plot theme:

Apparently, 2012 will be a big year for planet Earth, at least according to many folk traditions: 2012 is supposedly to be a year of either great spiritual transformation -- or apocalypse. The Mayan calendar held that it would be a time when the existing world order would be reversed. Nostradamus forecasted that a rather large comet would rudely arrive on Earth's doorstep no later than 2012. The Roman Catholic Saint Malachy predicted that in 2012, the last Pope would arrive, triggering Judgment Day. And in both "The X Files" and amongst certain UFO theorists, 2012 is the year aliens invade Earth. Even regular, non-nutty scientists also speculate that in 2012 a polar reversal will take place on Earth, and that once the earth starts rotating in the opposite direction, natural disasters of unknown proportions may occur.

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci may write the script, but other than that, not much is known at this time.


KJ's Take: Let's see if this makes sense.  I like Bay, and I enjoyed The Island (which I will use as comparison due to semi-similar themes).  Yet, I didn't love The Island.  It was a solid B to B+ action film with little to no depth, and while I think that is totally fine for a film like Transformers ... a story following the theme above damn sure better have more depth than The Island did or it's heading right toward it's own apocalypse.