Sam Worthington is set to star in and produce DreamWorks' Quatermain, a sci-fi take on the literary hero.

According to Heat Vision, Allan Quatermain was the hero 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.

Mark Verheiden was the writer behind the first script when the project was revealed early last year.