Spider-Man 2 writers and Michael Bay adapting comic Existence 2.0

HeatVisionBlog reports that Paramount has nabbed rights to the Image comic Existence 2.0, with Smallville and Spider-Man 2 writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough attached to adapt.

Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes will produce the eventual film with Circle of Confusion’s David Alpert.

The action comic Existence 2.0 was written by Nick Spencer featuring with art by Ronald Salas, centers on an amoral, self-absorbed physicist who finds his consciousness transferred into the body of the hitman who just murdered him. He begins enjoying the hitman’s lifestyle until his daughter is kidnapped by the same people who “killed” him.

Gough and Millar are already are working with Bay, adapting the young-adult book I Am Number Four, which Bay is producing for DreamWorks.

Existence 2.0 represents an expansion of the types of projects Platinum Dunes – known for horror remakes like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the soon-to-open A Nightmare On Elm Street – develops.

Circle of Confusion is also developing an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ graphic novel Fire and AMC’s conversion of the comic book The Walking Dead.