Chronicles without fancy clothes and animals.

The shaky camera effect. If you want to get technical we can say "documentary style". We've had it with horror movies likes Blair Witch and Paranormal activity. It's even reached the monster flicks with Cloverfield, but what better way to introduce it again than with superheroes?

Twentieth Century Fox is looking to pick up a spec script from Max Landis called Chronicle. The story will focus on three teenagers from Portland who are exposed to mystery substances in the woods and develop powers from them. Like all good teenagers, they work together to condition these skills until personal and family problems arrive in full form to rip the friendship to shreds.

Max Landis is the son of John Landis who directed such classics as Animal House and An American Werewolf in London.

Every possible property involving comic books seems to have someone trying to tap into it's potential. While it's unsure how an original story like this could work, I like the idea of Landis creating something new and using the documentary shooting style to play it out.

It could be filled with some really great emotion of people learning to grow with their lives while juggling super powers or was that X-Men...or Spider-Man?