Paramount Gathers Writers For An Ology Movie Series

Despite the struggles of the DCEU and even more starkly, Universal's Dark Universe planned franchise, studios keep trying to find their own shared cinematic universe. Paramount has hatched a plan to build another, hiring Akiva Goldsman to oversee writers for a potential franchise based on the popular YA-orientated Ology encyclopedia series.

Nothing to do with this classic BT Maureen Lipman ad from the 1980s{ =nofollow}, the books are a set of 13 fictional tomes covering subjects such as Egyptology, Mythology, Vampireology and Alienology. The studio clearly thinks there's scope for a set of films embracing family friendly adventure, and Goldsman is back on writers room duty, working with Jeff Pinkner (who has seen success with Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle), author and screenwriter Michael Chabon, Lindsey Beer (who worked on the most recent Transformers and has been adapting The Kingkiller Chronicle's first tome), Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole, Guardians Of The Galaxy's Nicole Perlman and Christina Hodson, who also has Transformers form, crafting the script for the Bumblebee spin-off.

The ultimate aim is for the group (and some visual artists who will work alongside) them to generate ideas for seven scripts that have interconnected stories. Cart before horse? It's too early to tell.

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