New developments are moving forward in adapting yet another Marvel comics series to the big screen, although this time it won't be a superhero series.

Producer Ryan Heppe has recently acquired the rights to 'Crash Ryan', a 1984 comic series based on super airplanes and a selfless heroic pilot.

"The series was one of the first group of creator-owned titles published by Marvel Comics under the Epic Comics banner. Harris - who wrote, drew and colored the book - brought the character back in a four-part story that ran in Dark Horse Presents," writes Variety.

Heppe and the comic series creator, Ron Harris, have already put together a 50 page outline titled "Crash Ryan and the Eyes of Lemuria", and is described as an "earthbound, steampunk-inspired fusion of Indiana Jones and 'Star Wars.'"

Harris comments:

"'Crash Ryan' is the product of a mishmash of influences: my childhood spent on Navy airbases; the old flying movies and Masked Villain serials I loved on latenight TV, and especially my fascination with predictions of future life made in the 1930s."

"It's an incredible canvas, but what attracted me was the redemption story: a man who can't save himself being tasked with saving the world."

There is no theatrical release date for the movie, nor has it been confirmed if the movie will share a spot in the vast Marvel Cinematic Universe.