Steven Spielberg with Amblin Entertainment will be teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to create Blackhawk from DC Comics.

Screenplay for the movie will be written by David Koepp. He has collaborated with Spielberg numerous times in the past and part of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, according to a statement from Warner Bros.

Spielberg recently completed work on the hit movie Ready Player One, which was also produced in partnership with Warner Bros. The director’s next movies are the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise and a movie adaptation of the musical West Side Story.

Read also: Steven Spielberg to remake 'West Side Story'

“I am excited to reunite with them on Blackhawk," said Spielberg.

The prolific director is also working on Alita: Battle Angel, a movie adaptation of a popular Japanese manga called “Battle Angel Alita” or “Gunmu” by Yukito Kishiro.

Blackhawk the character and its companions first appeared on Military Comics number one. The "Blackhawk" comic book series was initially published by Quality Comics and later by DC Comics. The series features a mysterious man known only as Blackhawk and team of World War II-era ace pilots called the Blackhawk Squadron.

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