Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Quatermain

5/14/10 - Sam Worthington will star in Quatermain, a sci-fi take on the literary hero. He also will make his debut as a producer on the DreamWorks feature project, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Allan Quatermain was the protagonist of "King's Solomon's Mines," a Victorian adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard, and its sequel, "Allan Quatermain." In the first book, Quatermain leads an expedition into an unexplored region of Africa to find the brother of a friend as well as a fabled treasure of the lost mines.  DreamWorks' version is set in a time in which humans have left Earth and sees Quatermain return to the planet from a sojourn in space, embarking on another King Solomon's Mines-style adventure but on a planetwide scale.  Worthington is joining Alfred Gough and Miles Millar among the producers on the project, which has no director and is in the development stages.

2/25/09 - Mark Verheiden has been hired to write DreamWorks's original sci-fi movie Quartermain, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The adventure film springs from an original idea, though no plot details are available. Holly Bario and Jonathan Eirich are overseeing the project for the studio.  Verheiden is a writer and producer on SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica and NBC's Heroes and a former writer-producer on Smallville.

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