Transformers starlet Megan Fox will reportedly play the lead role in Fox Atomic’s long-gestating big screen version of the Top Cow comic book series Fathom.

According to IESB, “The studio is currently out to several writers to bring aboard to revamp the script as a vehicle for Megan Fox, who, our source says, has officially signed onto the project this week. Fox is set to play the lead character of Aspen.”

The project has been in development since 2001, when James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment acquired the rights to the comic.

Created by the late Michael Turner, Fathom follows the aquatic exploits of a beautiful girl named Aspen, brought to dry land on a boat thought to have sunk years ago. With no memories of who she is or where she came from, but with a clear affinity for the water, Aspen becomes an Olympic swimmer, a marine biologist and eventually gets involved in research at a high-tech underwater lab. At the lab, she discovers a mysterious underwater race, and her own water-based powers.

Source: IGN