Back in November of 2009, we brought you the news when Sam Worthington had reportedly agreed to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Radical Publishing comic book mini-series, The Last Days of American Crime. The series, written by Rick Remender with art by Greg Tocchini is being adapted for a feature film by Karl Gajdusek (Dead Like Me, Last Resort).

Now, Deadline reports that Anthony Mandler will make his big-screen directorial debut by helming the adaptation, which takes place in the not-too-distant future as a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. To keep this from the public, the government creates a distraction, installing a new currency system using digital charge cards.

Enter: Graham Brick. A career criminal never quite able to hit the big score, Graham intends to steal one of the charging stations, skip the country and live off unlimited funds for the rest of his life. But the media has leaked news of the anti-crime signal one week before it was to go live…and now Graham and his team have just a few days to turn the crime of the century into the last crime in American history.

While Worthington had been attached to the project in 2009, there is no mention if he is still involved.