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1/29/09 - Matt Johnson has been tapped to adapt the sci-fi comic book
Afterburn for Relativity Media, according to The Hollywood
Reporter. The film is being produced by Neal Moritz's Original Films
and Toby Maguire's Maguire Entertainment banner. Afterburn is an
adventure based on books published by Red 5 Comics, set against the
backdrop of a post-apocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was
destroyed by a massive solar flare. The surviving life is mutated from
radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure
hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and
the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.
0Tobey Maguire will produce
Afterburn, an SF movie based on the Red 4 comic book by Paul Ens and
Scott Chitwood. The post-apocalyptic story begins one year after a
solar flare burns half of Earth. Treasure hunters go back to the
scorched portion of the planet to retrieve valuable artifacts. |