Writing duos are in vogue in Hollywood nowadays, and you don’t get any hotter than the duo of Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (“Wanted”, “3:10 to Yuma”), who can now add the upcoming sci-fi movie “The thirteenth Hour” to their resume. The duo have been hired by New Line Cinema to adapt Richard Doetsch’s upcoming novel for the big screen.

Now this is an idea for a movie I can get behind: time travel + Christopher Nolan’s “Memento”? Oh hell yeah! Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Well if you did, you’re screwed, because novelist Richard Doetsch is about to sell his novel “The Thirteenth Hour” for a nice princely sum at auction, and New Line Cinema has already snapped up the movie rights to turn it into a movie. And who can blame them? Check out the novel’s (and one presumes, the movie’s) plot (via Variety):