MUMBAI: DreamWorks‘ feature project Quatermain a sci-fi film, will have Sam Worthington as co-producer and star.

Allan Quatermain was the protagonist of ‘King‘s Solomon‘s Mines‘, a Victorian adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard and its sequel, Allan Quatermain.

The first book had Quatermain leading 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 planet-wide scale.