Area 51, Where Are You?

New Line Cinema and Atari Games have inked an early agreement to bring shooter, Area 51, to the silver screen.

Steven Elzer, the New Line Cinema vice president of corporate publicity, said the project was in "very early development," and that while names were attached, he could only confirm that Forrest Gump producer Steve Tisch was among them. He also added a script had not yet been completed.

Atari Games indicated that the script is being written by Brandon Braga and Ronald Moore, who wrote the script for Star Trek: First Contact, and that it will generally follow the plotline of the arcade version. In the movie, DNA geno-morphing aliens crash on Earth and are taken by the US government to Area 51 to be studied for potential weapons use.

Given that the movie project is in the earliest of stages, neither party was able to give a release date for the film.