Radical Comics has announced that Sam Worthington (star of James Cameron’s Avatar) has signed on to do a film adaptation of The Last Days of American Crime. Sam Worthington will star and produce the film.

“I had met Sam’s producing partner, Michael Schwarz, at the recent San Diego Comic-Con, who loved the concept for The Last Days of American Crime” said Radical Publishing’s President and Publisher, Barry Levine. “I figured that since Sam had done three tentpole movies back-to-back with Terminator Salvation, Avatar and Clash of the Titans, that he would want the more character driven role of Kevin Cash, the sociopathic partner to Graham Bricke. Michael had set up a meeting between Sam, CAA agents Kimberly Hodgert and Jon Levin along with myself to discuss Last Days. During the two hour meeting, we hit it off and Sam had committed to both star and produce.”

The Last Days of American Crime is set in the future where the US Government plans to secretly broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke intends to steal a charging station to live off of unlimited funds but when media leaks the news about the signal, he decides to plan the last heist in American history.

The first 15 pages of Last Days of American Crime is on the Radical Publishing Myspace page here. The first issue of the comic comes December 2009.