In March 2013, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick mentioned they were working on a screenplay and the film was on Paramount's list of possible productions. Wernick was quoted as saying, "We've written a couple of drafts of "Micronauts" and it's in the Paramount system now. We developed it with "Bad Robot," and it’s probably not what you might imagine a Micronauts movie to be. It departs from the comic wildly, so if you hope it's loyal to the comic you’ll be disappointed in that particular sense. However, it's very, very different and very, very cool." The planned project made little progress, though in November 2015, Paramount announced it was still planning a "Micronauts" movie.