Michael Bay and books are not two subjects that naturally link up in our mind. But the man is going on a book-to-film rampage at the moment, with one project (I Am Number Four) already chugging towards production, and another just announced over at Variety: he’ll produce an adaptation of Gideon’s Sword for Paramount.
**Sword **is co-written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, two writers who have been collaborating for a while on novels, and are planning to launch their new series, Gideon’s Crew, with the book next February.
So what’s it all about, you ask? Wish we could tell you, but if we did that, we’d then have to pack you into a crate and ship you off to a bunker located miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean to avoid you leaking plot details to anyone else. Or maybe we can’t say because there aren’t any details yet – with that faraway February publication for the book and the new film deal, no one is letting any cats out of any bags right now. Bay is also notorious for trying to keep things under wraps, to the lengths of flat-out lying about his films.
But given that the authors’ previous collaborations focus on horror and technology, and with that title, we’d guess at some sort of fantasy blend.
Bay Films will produce for the studio, and the hunt is now on to find a writer for the adaptation. Oh, and Gideon's Sword? Also the new nickname Bay has just given to what he used to refer to as "Little Mike."