Afterburn is a 2025 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by J. J. Perry and written by Matt Johnson and Nimród Antal. It stars Dave Bautista, Samuel L. Jackson, Olga Kurylenko and Kristofer Hivju. It is based on the Red 5 Comics graphic novel of the same name by Scott Chitwood, Paul Ens, and Wayne Nichols. The story is set a decade after the Earth's technology was decimated by a solar flare. Original development began in 2018, then halted, and restarted in 2024.