He’s finished blowing shit up on the Transformers movies (for now), but Michael Bay may have found himself an original sci-project called Time Salvager to occupy his time. The planned movie, housed over at Paramount, is actually based on a novel by Wesley Chu (The Lives of Tao) and already has two producers attached to it; Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian.
The movie could be a little while off yet though as Bay is actually quite busy at the moment shooting 13 Hours, which stars James Badge Dale, John Krasinski, Toby Stephens and Max Martini. That movie is a little different as it revolves around the 2012 Benghazi attack by militants at the American diplomatic compound in Libya in 2012.
Here’s a little more about Time Salvager from Amazon:
Convicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one’s hero. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Those responsible for delaying humanity’s demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history.
James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth’s past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. The laws governing use of time travel are absolute; break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. Most chronmen never reach old age; the stress of each jump through time, compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future, means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point, and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his.
On a final mission that is to secure his retirement, James meets Elise Kim, an intriguing scientist from a previous century, who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and his common sense, and in violation of the chronmen’s highest law, James brings Elise back to the future with him, saving her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth, somehow finding allies, and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity’s home world.
No word on cast, shoot date or anything like that as yet though.
