Giving hope to anyone who’s scrawled their fan-fiction across the Internet—which, arguably, is not a good thing—Warner Bros. has purchased a pitch that began life as a thread on Reddit.com, the web’s finest source for determining in a democratic fashion whether a video of your cat is OMG adorbz or lame what is this I don’t even. But it’s also occasionally good for brainstorming, as two-time Jeopardy! champion and author James Erwin found out when he began developing Rome, Sweet Rome, a bit of speculative science-fiction on what might happen if a modern-day Marine unit suddenly found itself in ancient Rome and was forced to battle Augustus’ legions—and then somehow put everything back the way it was before they exploded it, all in order to fix the course of history they’ve altered.