Sam Worthington Adding His Non-Distinctive "I'm Here" to Futuristic Allan Quartermain Film
Sam Worthington, Hollywood's equivalent of that quiet guy who keeps showing up at your parties even though no one seems to quite know who he is, has nabbed himself another role in a big-budget sci-fi spectacle--and this time he's producing, too. Why not?
Sam Worth ington is attached to star in “Quatermain,” DreamWorks’ sci-fi take on the literary hero, and he also will make his debut as a producer on the feature project.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.
Man. Terminator Salvation, Avatar, Clash of the Titans, whatever else he's been in... This Worthington guy really has an eye for lazy, fantastical scripts that will still somehow make a fortune.