The script, currently entitled Doomsday Protocol, was written by Shane Salerno, a man known for his slick but essentially shitty big budget movies - Sam Jackson's Shaft remake was another of his scripts - but not his sterling work as music supervisor on NBC's UC: Undercover, is being pitched as "an epic science fiction adventure in the vein of 'The Seven Samurai'" that sees aliens and humans with special abilities coming together to save the Earth, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

While we hope that the movie is better than Roger Corman's "homage" to Kurosawa's classic, Battle Beyond The Stars (the only movie to bring together Corman, James Cameron and re-used sound effects from the original Battlestar Galactica), it's unlikely to beat the awesome 2004 steampunk anime adaptation Samurai 7.

Fox picks up 'Doomsday Protocol' [Hollywood Reporter]

Akir is a peaceful world. They have no weapons! They don't even have proper houses, just weird mud huts that look like bad Star Trek cast-offs. What's funny about Battle Beyond is that the space battle scenes look pretty great, using the same style of effects as Star Wars. Except that the "Samurai" whom the young Shad recruits to save his "town" include a woman with a huge boob window, who blows up spaceships with her giant space-gun while pushing out her chest as far as she can.