Sam Worthington to star in "sci-fi version" of King Solomon's Mines

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In a bizarre, fantasy-to-sci-fi gear-grind that has the potential to be as WTF-worthy as Highlander II: The Quickening, DreamWorks has announced that Avatar and Clash Of The Titans star Sam Worthington will play adventure hero Allan Quatermain in Quatermain, the latest movie based on H. Rider Haggard's venerable series of novels. A "sci-fi version" taking place in outer space in the far-off future (rather than on the Dark Continent during the Victorian Era), the film will find Quatermain returning to an abandoned Earth to seek a long-lost treasure.