Director Michael Bay and writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman – the creative team behind this summer’s Transformers – are reuniting to bring sci-fi author Whitley Strieber’s forthcoming novel 2012: The War for Souls to the big screen for Warner Bros Pictures. Talks are in the preliminary stage, but it is known that Bay intends to direct, while Orci and Kurtzman will produce.  

Strieber’s story centres on an academic researcher who discovers that multiple versions of Earth co-exist in different dimensions, and all are threatened by an apocalypse set to occur in 2012, as prophesied by the ancient Mayans. By opening a portal into a parallel universe, he makes contact with his double to stop the prophecy from being fulfilled.