Welcome to Thunderdome

The studio is putting together a writers room to break the story, with Terry Rossio, veteran scribe best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, tapped to head the creature feature league. Once he and his cohorts work out the best ideas and beats for the story, a writer will be chosen to write the script.

Joining Rossio in the room will be:

Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond and who are working on Star Trek 4;

Lindsey Beer, who is currently adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles for Lionsgate;

Cat Vasko, currently penning Warner Bros.’s adaptation of period circus love story, Queen of the Air;

T.S. Nowlin, the writer of the Maze Runner movies who already worked for Legendary on its Pacific Rim sequel;

And J. Michael Straczynski, the comic book writer and creator of 1990s sci-fi show Babylon 5 whose recent credits include World War Z and co-creating Netflix show Sense8 with the Wachowskis.

Leisher wrote: So this is separate from the King of All Monsters movie?

A lot of those names don't inspire confidence, but maybe as a group they'll do well...