Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Wolverine, Jack the Giant Killer) has reportedly been hired to pen the big-screen adaptation of the 1979 animated sci-fi TV series, Star Blazers for Skydance Productions (True Grit).

Deadline reports that Skydance founder David Ellison (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) who currently has a deal with Paramount Pictures to co-finance and produce four to six movies per year through his production company will produce the live-action Star Blazers feature film, alongside with Josh Klein.

No plot details on the feature film have been revealed, but the animated TV series, based on the Japanese animated series Uchû senkan Yamato (a.k.a Space Battleship Yamato) centered on a spaceship’s quest to make it back in time to save planet Earth from extinction.

No production or release dates for Star Blazers have been announced.