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09-19-2005, 07:58 PM
Gritty 'Losers' comic book coming to big screen
September 15, 2005 07:23:25
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg has signed on to write and produce an adaptation of "The Losers." He may also direct the Warner Bros. project, which is based on a gritty comic book.
"The Losers" follows a highly trained and eclectic Special Ops team that is set up, betrayed and left for dead. They go on a quest to find who sold them out and why, righting wrongs they encounter along the way.
The tales of "The Losers" ran in DC Comics' "G.I. Combat" and "Our Fighting Forces" in the 1970s and revolved around the adventures of a misfit group of American troops during World War II. The book was relaunched about three years ago under the company's Vertigo imprint by writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock, who turned the title into a modern action-espionage adventure book. The comic quickly became a critical success.
In addition to directing the Billy Bob Thornton football drama "Friday Night Lights," on which he shared screenplay credit with David Aaron Cohen, Berg also shot "The Rundown," starring the Rock.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
September 15, 2005 07:23:25
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg has signed on to write and produce an adaptation of "The Losers." He may also direct the Warner Bros. project, which is based on a gritty comic book.
"The Losers" follows a highly trained and eclectic Special Ops team that is set up, betrayed and left for dead. They go on a quest to find who sold them out and why, righting wrongs they encounter along the way.
The tales of "The Losers" ran in DC Comics' "G.I. Combat" and "Our Fighting Forces" in the 1970s and revolved around the adventures of a misfit group of American troops during World War II. The book was relaunched about three years ago under the company's Vertigo imprint by writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock, who turned the title into a modern action-espionage adventure book. The comic quickly became a critical success.
In addition to directing the Billy Bob Thornton football drama "Friday Night Lights," on which he shared screenplay credit with David Aaron Cohen, Berg also shot "The Rundown," starring the Rock.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter