"It's a perfect project for Warner Bros and I've obviously enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the studio," Goyer says.
The first in a trilogy, Heaven's Shadow "begins when an object is discovered heading for earth. Initial panic gives way to a competition between governments to be first to intercept what they believe is a breakaway meteor. What the astronauts discover leads to an encounter with alien forces that are a threat to humanity."
The book, which will be published by Ace Books next summer, will be followed in the next two summers by, respectively, Heaven's War and Heaven's Fall.
Details Deadline, "For Warner Bros, Goyer has recently racked up either script or story credit on Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, the untitled next installment of the Batseries, and Superman: Man of Steel, a reinvention of the venerable DC Comics hero that's being godfathered by Chris Nolan."