Matt Johnson has been tapped to adapt the comic book "
Afterburn" for Relativity Media. The film is being produced by Neal Moritz's Original Films and Toby Maguire's Maguire Entertainment banner.
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Afterburn," a sci-fi adventure based on books published by Red 5 Comics, is set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.