Sam Worthington has been cast as the lead in The Shack, joining Octavia Spencer.
The Avatar actor will play a man who's young daughter is kidnapped before evidence of her murder is found in an abandoned shack, according to Empire.
Four years later, he gets a note from someone claiming to be God (Spencer) and returns to the shack, finding something that will alter his life forever.
Stuart Hazeldine will direct from a script adapted by John Fusco.
Worthington will return to Pandora when James Cameron starts production on the sequels, with rumours there could be four follow-on films.
Worthington and Lara Bingle welcomed their first child, a baby son in late March.
