Hilary Swank is set to produce and star in a big screen adaptation of the Radical comic “Shrapnel.” The 36-year-old Oscar winner will play Samantha “Sam” Vijaya, a toothy, but sexy, former war hero in the year 2250 who takes up arms to defend colonists on Venus, the planet where she lives in exile.

Says Swank:

I am a fan of the work that Barry Levine and Radical Pictures are doing in the comic and action arena. Shrapnel and specifically the character of Sam offer me the opportunity to dive into an exciting character with many layers and depth that are rarely found in this genre.

Swank’s genre creds include Dark Castle’s end-of-days frightener The Reaping, Paramount’s sci-fi actioner The Core, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, Chris Nolan’s Insomnia, Sam Raimi’s The Gift, and, most recently, the Hammer Films stalker-thriller The Resident.

No word yet on who will be directing Shrapnel.