MTV report that “Avatar” star Sam Worthington will make his debut as a producer in an out-of-this-world take on famed literary treasure hunter “Allan Quatermain”

Worthington will produce and star in DreamWorks‘ “Quatermain,” an update of the character introduced in H. Rider Haggard’s Victorian-era adventure “King Solomon’s Mines.” In the original book, published in 1885, the hero travels to unexplored Africa in search of a friend’s lost brother, who was himself looking for the untold treasures hidden away in the king’s mines.