Paramount grabs 'Wunderkind' for Abrams, Bad Robot

Paramount Pictures is continuing its shopping spree, picking up the spec script "Wunderkind" for J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot.

J.J. Abrams

According to Comingsoon.net, the script is from writer Patrick Aison and is set in 1979, following a CIA Nazi hunter who becomes entangled with an older Massad agent also on the hunt.

Aison's most recent project is "Echo Station," a sci-fi thriller which he co-wrote with Brad Kean and is being directed by the Spirig brothers.

Paramount's option on "Wunderkind" comes on the heels of the news that the studio picked up "God Particle," a script from Oren Uziel, also for Bad Robot.

Paramount, Abrams seeking 'God Particle'

Paramount Pictures has found the "God Particle," a script from Oren Uziel that it hopes to develop on a small budget.

J.J. Abrams

Vulture reports the studio has picked up the script for J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot. Uziel wrote the action comedy "The Kitchen Sink."

According to the report, the new script's synopsis is as follows: "After a physics experiment with a large hadron accelerator causes the Earth to seemingly vanish completely, the terrified crew of an orbiting American space station is left floating in the middle of now-even-more-empty space. When a European spacecraft appears on their radar, the Americans must determine whether it’s their salvation, or a harbinger of doom."

The projected budget for the project is $5 million, which would put it definitely on the low end of the spectrum.