Wanted to The Red Star

Timur Bekmambetov has got something in the works now that Wanted has been done and out the way. His new project is The Red Star, based on a comic book set in a mythic / sci-fi Russia.

"I have in development a... very interesting script called THE RED STAR based on
the comic book. It's my dream project. It's something between STAR WARS and DR. ZHIVAGO." - Timur Bekmambetov, June 25, 2008, ComicsToFilm.com

Now I don't know too much about the comic book (although I'm sure there was a computer game out a while ago based on it). Wikipedia has this to say and it all sounds suitably epic. Possible spoilers so be careful.

The first four issues of The Red Star tell the story of the war of the state and the Red Fleet / Army against Al'Istaan, told in a retrospective by Maya Antares, who remembers her husband's death in that war. Having penetrated deeply into Al'Nistaani, the fleet of Red Star skyfurnaces, gigantic flying warships up to three kilometres long, seem to destroy their enemies when the volcanic fury of their engines is directed on the massed enemies below.

However, the ancient protector of the Nistaani, Kar Dathra the Immortal, appears, and powered by the mystical energies of his thousands of dying followers - manages to destroy almost the whole of the Red Fleet.

The further three of the first four issues deal mainly with the panicked attempt of
Maya to reach her husband, fighting a grim and hopeless infantry battle on the
ground where suddenly, the might of the Red Fleet crashes down and burns,
turning certain victory into history-changing defeat. The deaths and the spiritual energies released by the dying soldiers waken other mystical beings, whose goals and allegiances are still not fully known in the first issues. Their apparent warring over the dead souls, especially that of Marcus Antares, become a major plot of the later issues.

Marcus himself is saved by the appearance of a mysterious ghost known only as the Red Woman. She saves his soul from becoming a captive of the evil sorcerer Troika - servant of the evil Imbohl.

Defeating Troika in a duel, the Red Woman spirits Marcus away into the Spiritrealm, informing him that "It was not our people who were defeated here, but our past-- and the path to our future begins with you."