I’m still not sure what day it was that Hollywood decided Sam Worthington was going to be the world’s biggest action star, but it’s happened very quickly, with Terminator: Salvation, Avatar and Clash Of The Titans all coming out in quick succession. Now it seems he gotten big enough that he reckons he wants to add a producer credit to his name by steering a movie based on H. Rider Haggard’s classic character, Alan Quartermain, the the big screen.
THR reports that he’s also attached to star in Quartermain (a retitling that says they’re already thinking of this as a franchise), which will take Haggard’s character and completely revamp him for the 21st Century. Rather than as in King Solomon’s Mines, where the action hero is a 19th Century explorer, heading off into an unexplored region of Africa to find the brother of a friend as well as a fabled treasure of the lost mines, Dreamworks sci-fi take will be set during a time when humans have left Earth, with Quartermain returning to go on a King Solomon’s Mine style adventure, but on a planet-wide scale.
Along with Worthington, Smallviller’s Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will produce, although no director is attached and it’s still in the development stage.