According to Variety, Tobey Maguire and Producer Neal Moritz are teaming up for "Afterburn," an adaptation of a comic book from Red 5 Comics. Maguire would produce through his Maguire Entertainment banner and Moritz through his Original Films shingle. No writer for the adaptation has been announced as of yet.
The book, whose first issue hit stands in January, is a sci-fi adventure 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 for the right price extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates along the way.
Maguire next appears briefly in "Tropic Thunder" and is developing a live-action adaptation of the anime classic "Robotech," which he is producing.
