Segal Works "The Machine"

"Get Smart" director Peter Segal is in early talks to helm the actioner "The Machine" says Variety.

Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant penned the script about a human-like machine (Vin Diesel) created in secrecy by the The Pentagon as the world's first true ultimate weapon. Two decades after the government halted the project for unknown reasons, a child finds and befriends "The Machine."

Michael Ewing, Marc Platt, Lennon and Garant are producing the film

Segal remains attached to a number of projects including "Grudge Match" and "Bleach," at least one of which will likely be his next feature before work begins on 'Machine'.