One of the success stories of Comic-Con in recent years was a graphic novel called Last Man Standing. Created over two and a half years by Dan LuVisi, the graphic novel's movie rights were snatched up by Paramount during the book’s first Comic-Con appearance, and it sold out in just two hours at this past summer’s show. Now the project has officially found its screenwriter. Variety reports that David Leslie Johnson, who penned the horror flick Orphan and this year’s Red Riding Hood, has landed the gig.

Last Man Standing is set 600 years in the future, when Earth is embroiled in a war against Mars. The Earth military creates a super-soldier to help tip the balance against the Red Planet, and after their victory the soldier becomes a hero and celebrity. Until, that is, he is framed for a terroristic crime and tossed in the slammer for nearly a decade. Once he's finally sprung, he sets out to take revenge on the people responsible.

I'm not familiar with the graphic novel, but the general premise sounds solid enough. Revenge is always a motivation audiences respond to, and Last Man Standing sounds like it could be a sort of futuristic Count of Monte Cristo (or, depending on how well you know your SF literature, a different spin on Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination). Johnson's past credits don't inspire enormous amounts of confidence, but hey, everybody's got some shitty stuff in them before they get to the goods.

Johnson is also one of the writers who worked on the upcoming Clash of the Titans sequel, Wrath of the Titans.