Channing Tatum To Space Out With ‘Ion’

Channing Tatum will star in FOX’s latest sci-fi epic – “Ion,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The trade mag reported that Channing has signed on for the film, which is being described as a “sci-fi romantic epic” and is already being touted as the next “Avatar.”

The spec script, penned by Brit-turned-Angeleno Will Dunn, reportedly picked up steam after the multi-billion-dollar success of the James Cameron blockbuster, eventually finding a home at FOX 2000.

Channing knows a thing or two about romance (“Dear John”) and CGI-filled shoot ‘em ups (“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”), but the busy star will show his chops in several more films before “Ion” launches.

He’ll appear in 2011’s “The Eagle of The Ninth” – which will find him as a young Roman in 140 A.D., rather than a sci-fi future. Channing has also wrapped “Son of No One,” with Al Pacino and Katie Holmes, and the thriller “Haywire.”