Walt Disney Pictures has nabbed the rights to Dave Andron‘s (Justified) screenplay The Runner, a sci-fi thriller about a man in 2027 who is sent back in time to stop an attack that will render the earth uninhabitable. The traveler volunteers for the job in order to save the love of his life.

Deadline reports that The Runner will be written by Andron as a directing vehicle for Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher), and will be produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment, alongside Forster and Brad Simpson of Apparatus Entertainment. The Runner is also being simultaneously developed for television, video games, a graphic novel, and as interactive content for hand held and mobile devices by Disney.

No production or release dates have been announced.