Worthington turns producer with ‘Quatermain’
May 19th, 2010 - 2:20 pm ICT by IANSLos Angeles, May 19 (IANS) Australian actor Sam Worthington will star and produce a sci-fi film titled “Quatermain”.
He will play Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard’s Victorian adventure novel “King Solomon’s Mines”, reports imdb.com.
Instead of the novel’s original setting in Africa, the “Avatar” star’s adaptation will see the protagonist return to earth following a space trip - only to find there are no humans left on the planet.
–Indo-Asian News Service
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