Herman Melville's epic high seas novel will be making a return to the big screen.

"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov has recently been hired by Universal Pictures to adapt the graphic novel-style screenplay into a hit movie, written by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.

Cooper told Daily Variety that the movie will have a modern feel, a vast difference from the original 1930 movie which starred John Barrymore as Captain Ahab and the 1956 classic which starred Gregory Peck.

The story will abandon the first person point-of-view of protagonist Ishmael to allow the film to show more of the history of the whale's previous adventures of destroying ships before meeting up with Pequod, the ship of Captain Ahab.

Cooper continues, saying, "Our vision isn't your grandfather's Moby Dick. This is an opportunity to take a classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what is at the core- an action-adventure revenge story."