Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s new graphic novel Titans is heading straight to the big screen, courtesy of Chernin Entertainment and Graphic India.

The story follows the aftermath of ships from an unknown world crash-landing around Earth. The Titans on board — massive entities with no memory of where they came from or where they were going — bond telepathically with the ordinary humans who encounter them. The story follows the Titans and their humans over a decade as the world tries to use them for their own purposes. Some want military superiority, others peace; some want to build cities, others to destroy them. The result is great hope and terrible wars.

JMS will write the script himself and produce via Studio JMS, with Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra of Graphic India and Liquid Comics also producing. According to Straczynski, “In an increasingly international marketplace, Titans represents the kind of multinational storytelling that will play an ever more important role in both film and publishing. Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra have been extremely supportive of this story, and Peter Chernin is exactly the right person to shepherd this into a successful film franchise.”