INCOGNITO Finds a Home at FOX

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip's Eisner nominated comic book series, Incognito, has been snapped up by 20th Century Fox, with plans to bring it to the big screen. Fox has already brought in Pulitzer prize winning writer, Robert Schenkkan, to pen the script.

The series, which ran for six issues from 2008-2009, features a former supervillain named Zack Overkill. Now in the Witness Protection Program after ratting out his boss, Zack is given a drug to suppress his powers. Bored with his daily life, he begins taking illegal street drugs which force his powers to emerge, and he resumes his costumed career this time as a vigilante rather than a villain.

The story is a bit of a curveball from the usual tale of "good cop goes bad", in this case it's sorta the polar opposite, as Zack has spent so much time among normals that he wants to fight to protect them.

Good deal. I'm a huge fan of pretty much anything Ed Brubaker has ever written, and I'm happy to see him getting some Hollywood love.