Area 52 a four-issue comic book series is the next to get a movie treatment by Summit Entertainment, according to Deadline. It will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, both producers of the Transformers movies, with JC Spink as the executive producer through Benderspink.
Here is a little description of the comic:
The comic was published in 2001 by Image Comics and had story which centers on a top secret warehouse with the name of Area 52 in Antarctica where lots of otherworldly discoveries are stored. The place has a ragtag group of misfits who have been exiled in the middle of nowhere to staff it. Then an alien killing machine is accidentally hatched in the lab, the group will have to use the stored mythological weapons and artifacts while working together to save themselves and our world.
The studio will start looking to bring on screenwriters to adapt the comic into a script very soon. And there is no date to start of the production yet.