If you had a big-budget sci-fi action movie that you needed a director for, you go to Michael Bay. Failing that, Len Wiseman ain’t such a bad choice, either. Wiseman is the director of the first two “Underworld” movies, and recently brought John Mclane out of retirement and back to the big screen with “Live Free or Die Hard”. The guy directs action movies. Big budget action movies. Which bodes well for the comic book-to-movie version of the independent series “Atlantis Rising”, which has the makings of a really big, spectacular sci-fi actioner with the right director attached.

Writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are two of the busiest men in Hollywood. Besides J.J. Abrams’ Trek 11 and “Transformers 2″, the duo have about a half dozen projects currently in development, including the Abrams TV show Fringe. Their latest will be adapting and producing the comic book series “Atlantis Rising” for Dreamworks. The comics, written by Scott O. Brown and drawn by Tim Irwin and Andy Elder, is a 5-issue limited series that has Earth battling for survival against an underwater civilization — aka Altantis.