Jeremiah Harm is to be adapted for cinema by the team behind indie hit Iron Sky.
Directors Tero Kaukomaa and Timo Vuorensola have joined up with producers Arnold Rifkin and Ross Richie to bring the BOOM! Studios graphic novel to the big screen.
Written by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, Jeremiah Harm follows an intergalactic bounty hunter who travels to Earth to track down a band of space criminals and the girl they have kidnapped.
Kaukomaa and Vuorensola are planning to fund the project via online crowdsourcing – the same method they used to secure backing for Iron Sky – and have set up a website for donations.
“Our online community was responsible for bringing Iron Sky to life and we aim to continue where we left off with a similar model for Jeremiah Harm,” said Kaukomaa.
“This is a unique opportunity for thousands of artists, science geeks and film fans out there to contribute to the making of a new science fiction world, and we look forward to them joining us for the ride.”
Producer Richie was a co-founder of BOOM! Studios.