BEN 10 Live-Action Film Gets a Screenwriter

Producer Joel Silver has hired Albert Torres to write the script for his big screen live-action adaptation of Cartoon Network's Ben 10. Torres recently wrote the script for Warner Bros. live action adaptation of Akira, but who knows if that will ever get made at this point?

The story revolves around a character named Ben Tennyson, who is a boy that can transform into 10 different alien creatures with the help of a glovelike device called the Omnitrix. Here's what Silver had to say about the film in a previous statement:

I think we have to try something fresh and go at it in a way that stays true to the original material. I have a 5-year-old and a 9-year-old, so it's somewhere between them. I tried to do (something similar) with Speed Racer and failed miserably. You always learn more from the ones that don't work than the ones that do work.

I'm one of the few people who think that Speed Racer was freakin' awesome! I thought that was a perfect adaptation of the animated cartoon, I just don't think the movie was marketed correctly. It's crazy to me that that movie wasn't more successful because it was unlike anything we had seen before. I just think it was ahead of its time, and the audience was not ready for it.

I've never watched a Ben 10 episode, so I'm not really sure what to expect from a live-action film. At this point I have no expectations. What do you think? Are you excited about this?