Tobey Maguire producing 'Afterburn'
Tobey Maguire is attached to produce Afterburn, a comicbook adaptation that Neal Moritz's Original Films is producing.
Relativity is in talks to board to the post-Apocalyptic project, based on Red 5 comic. Story begins one year after a solar flare burns half of the planet, when treasure hunters go back the scorched portion to retrieve valuable artifacts.
Paul Ens and Scott Chitwood wrote the comic.
Maguire just wrapped a role in Brothers, another Relativity project. He next appears on the bigscreen in a Tropic Thunder cameo. His shingle is producing an adaptation of Japanese anime skein Robotech for Warners, along with Tokyo Suckerpunch for Sony.

Written by: Diane Garrett
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