Is Louis Leterrier slowly becoming the new Roland Emmerich? After getting his start with the first two Transporter films, he has been taking on bigger and bigger tentpole projects ever since. Let’s face it, both Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans seem like they would have made perfect Roland Emmerich projects back in the ’90s. Now this week it has been confirmed that Leterrier has signed on to direct a sci-fi disaster movie for Universal called simply G. Details are still fairly slim, but the movie is being described as having “shades of The Day After Tomorrow and Taken.” So someone is taking revenge for a kidnapped family member while the world is simultaneously ending? I’m in.

The studio is currently in search of a screenwriter for the project, which is based on an original idea from producer Guymon Casady (The Expendables). Supposedly the “G” stands for Gravity, which was the original title of the film but was changed to avoid confusion with Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming movie of the same name. According a report last year from Pajiba, the story follows “a father who has to search for his lost child as the world stops spinning and Earth begins to lose its gravity.” It should come as no surprise that Mark Gordon (The Day After Tomorrow, The Patriot, 2012) is also producing.

This comes on the heels of Leterrier also confirming that he will direct a heist movie called Now You See Me. According to The Playlist, it’s being produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and the story involves a cat-and-mouse game between the FBI and “a super-team of the world’s greatest illusionists, who pull off a series of daring bank heists during their performances and showers the profits on to their audiences.” What do you think, are you curious to see what Leterrier can do with these two high concept flicks?