Producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer – the man you can thank for Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Con Air, Armageddon, Black Hawk Down and the Beverly Hills Cop, Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure and Bad Boys franchises (!) – is now developing a live-action film with Paramount based on the popular toy franchise Beyblade.

Deadline also confirms that Neil Widener and Gavin James are aboard to script the project, though plot details are being kept under wraps for now.

Beyblade is a line of spinning top toys that fight in a battle arena setting, similar in many ways to Pokémon – which just so happened to be the brand’s biggest competitor.

These toys have already been at the centre of countless mangas, animated television series, films, video games, and comic books, all primarily developed in Japan. But with many toy franchises like Transformers and Lego having received the cinematic treatment in recent years, it’s very possible that Beyblade could become the next brand to make it big in Hollywood.

Only time will tell. Stay tuned for further updates on the project.