Terry Rossio Boards 'Yucatan' to Pen Script for Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. appears to have found his next project outside of the Marvel Universe, with the actor's production company Team Downy along with Warner Bros. bringing in Oscar-nominated writer Terri Rossio to pen a script for the film Yucatan, based on the Steve McQueen treatment written in the late 1960s.

Deadline reported on the addition of Terry Rossi to the project, who previously wrote films like the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, Mask Of Zorro, and Deja Vu. McQueen's 1700-page template for the film was found after his death and was meant to be a star vehicle for himself, which will now be used used for the same purpose by Robert Downey Jr.  Yucatan will be based on McQueen's treatment that follows a renegade salvage expert in his search for Mayan treasure in the Yucatan Peninsula, the updated plot details are not known but it is said the film will be "using the original premise as a jumping-off point for a mind-bending adventure story."

I would have to wait to know more about the plot of the film to comment more on it, but I do buy Robert Downey Jr. in the role, I think his charisma would be a good fit for a treasure hunter. I do want to see him more outside of the Marvel Universe because I do think he is a great actor, maybe a project like this can achieve that. But this article is really about Rossio joining, and on that topic, adding someone to a project who has the tag "Oscar-nominated" is generally really good for any film.