Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow), director of the Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton which hits theaters in January, has signed on to rewrite and direct Relativity Media‘s forthcoming adaptation of the Red 5 Comics series, Afterburn.

THR reports that the adaptation of Scott Chitwood and Paul Ens comic, which is set to star Gerard Butler (Of Men and Mavericks, Hunter Killer) is set in a future where solar flares have left half the world a ravaged wasteland filled with mutants and pirates. Buried beneath the ash and rubble are priceless artifacts and some of the world’s most valuable works of art — for which wealthy Americans will pay any price.

The story centers on a treasure hunter who leads his team into the quarantine zone, braving rival bounty hunters, rogue armies, pirate gangs and deadly mutants along the way.

 

No release date has been announced for Afterburn.