Academy Award winning actress Charlize Theron is attached to star in director Rupert Wyatt’s (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) recently announced T.S. Nowlin-penned sci-fi thriller Agent 13, an adaptation of the ’80s comic book series created by writers Flint Dille (Dead to Rights) and David Marconi (Live Free or Die Hard).

The Universal Pictures production is set in the 1930s and follows Agent 13’s battle against the Brotherhood, a secret organization made up of people from the lost civilization of Lemuria that has fallen under corrupt leadership. Theron will most likely play Agent 13’s lover China White or his closest operative Maggie Darr.

Theron, who will soon be seen as villainous bureaucrat Meredith Vicks in Ridley Scott’s eagerly awaited Prometheus and as the Evil Queen in Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsmen, will also produce under her Denver and Delilah shingle.