Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

The Defenders

6/23/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are developing Masi Oka's The Defenders. "We developed it with Masi," Kurtzman said. "When we were writing Transformers, he came to see us and pitched us the movie, and we thought, 'This is such a wonderful way to reinvent kind of an Amblin movie.' So we've been developing it with him for the last year while we've been working on these other movies and then sold it a couple of weeks ago."  The Defenders, which was just given the go-ahead by DreamWorks, follows a group of gamer teens who have to come together to save the world, sort of a real-world MMORPG.  Kurtzman was mum about specific details, but he hinted that the film would recall kid-themed adventures of the 1980s.

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