Sam Worthington is set up to play the lead role in a DreamWorks sci-fi movie called Quatermain. He joins producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar on the project, which has no director and is in the early development stages.
Allan Quatermain is the hero of 19th century writer H. Rider Haggard’s series of novels, most famously including King s Solomon s Mines which would create the Lost World genre of novels, most of which are set in Africa. DreamWorks version, written by Mark Verheiden, is set in the future where Quatermain returns to Earth from a trip in space and begins a planetwide adventure.
Worthington has been busy over the past year, staring in Terminator Salvation, Avatar and Clash of the Titans. He’s now working on The Fields, a thriller being directed by Michael Mann’s daugter, Ami Canaan Mann.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
