Last summer, we brought you the news when Warner Bros. Pictures nabbed the rights to adapt Christian Gossett‘s sci-fi/fantasy comic series The Red Star, published by Archangel Studios and Image Comics. Writer Jason Rothenberg is penning the script for the big-screen adaptation, which is being produced by Neal Moritz.

Now, Deadline reports that Josh Trank (Chronicle) has been hired to direct the project which is set in “Mythic” Soviet Russia where futuristic technology co-mingles with magical elements. The protagonist is a Red Fleet soldier who goes up against an ex-leader who rules with an iron fist.

No release date has been set for The Red Star.