Robert Rodriguez is a filmmaker unusually in touch with his inner 12-year-old. Hell, one might even say he’s ruled by his inner 12-year-old. Well, it is an exciting time for Rodriguez’s inner 12-year-old (and yours, too, if you’ve got one), because Deadline reports that Sony has acquired “a big package” that includes the rights to the 1983 Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta collaboration Fire And Ice. Rodriguez has long been on board to direct a big-screen live-action adaptation of the animated feature, and he will now helm the feature for the embattled studio.

Frazetta was a prolific and influential illustrator, movie poster artist, and painter whose work frequently featured scantily clad warriors, scantily clad Amazons, and beasts of various varieties, often seen airbrushed onto all sorts of kick-ass vans in the 1970s. Fire And Ice was his only feature film, and it told the tale of the sole survivor of a village destroyed by glaciers and his attempts to win revenge on the evil ice queen behind the destruction.

Rodriguez is apparently setting out to honor his late friend with the film, which will undoubtedly appeal to the prurient interests of 12-year-olds the world over.