Foreseeable Future

Noted director and producer Michael Bay has been spending his time, working in either the horror or sci-fi genres, over the last few years.... It's a trend that is going to continue...

Pamela McClintock and Dave McNary have the story in Variety:

[Bay] is attached to reteam with writing-producing duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci on sci-fi project "2012," based on bestselling author Whitley Strieber's upcoming tome of the same name, for Warner Bros.

Story follows an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe and makes contact with his double in order to stop an apocalypse foreseen by the ancient Mayans.

Kurtzman and Orci, who penned Bay's upcoming DreamWorks tentpole "Transformers" and brought the director aboard "2012," will produce.

Warners nailed down the film rights to Strieber's book on Friday and continues negotiations with Orci, Kurtzman and Bay.

Bay is in post with "Transformers." He was last in theaters with "The Island."...

Strieber has several projects set up at other studios, including Sony's adaptation of his "The Grays," which Cary Brokaw is producing and scribe Ken Nolan adapting. His tome "The Day After Tomorrow" was the inspiration for Fox's film of the same name...

It's a shame that a writer as well respected as Whitley Strieber had The Day After Tomorrow as his first Hollywood experience...And Bay needs his fans to forget the bad vibes left by The Island....Although, I'm pretty sure Transformers will go a long way in making that happen, and that, by the time 2012 gets rolling, he will be forgiven for the Island miss-step.

2012: The War for Souls hits bookstores in October of this year...