Time travel is a tricky endeavor, and time traveling in movies are even trickier. But if done right, it can be downright great fun. James Mangold (pictured, left, directing in “Walk the Line”) is easily one of the best directors out there who you probably haven’t heard of before. He’s done pretty much every genre you can think of, from cop thrillers (”Copland”) to Westerns (”3:10 to Yuma”) to horror (”Identity”) to musicals (”Walk the Line”) and now he’s looking at sci-fi in “The Archive”, a time-travel movie for Universal Pictures.

Variety has more:

Scott Stuber will produce with Cathy Konrad. The project came to the studio through Stuber’s U-based Stuber Prods.; Konrad will produce through Tree Line Film, in which she partnered with Mangold on such films as “3:10 to Yuma” and “Walk the Line.”

Auburn adapted his 2001 play into the screen version of “Proof ” and also scripted “The Lake House” for Warner Bros. Auburn made his feature directing debut on “The Girl in the Park,” which the Weinstein Co. recently acquired.

Well okay, so maybe Variety didn’t have a whole lot more except to list a bunch of people and nothing about the plot. At least it’s time travel, which means sci-fi.

And did I mention James Mangold? This should be good. You can bet I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye on this one as it progresses through the Hollywood system…