Well, it's official: Warner Bros are making THE LOSERS into a movie, with Peter Berg attached to write and direct.
From today's Variety:
'The Losers' wins its way to WBI've know this was brewing for a while now, but my natural pessimism refused to let me believe it would actually happen until I read it in Variety. Well, there it is.
Berg to pen screenplay, co-produce
By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
DC comic 'The Losers,' about a rogue CIA unit, will get a shot at the bigscreen.
A double-crossed CIA black ops team known as "The Losers" is the latest DC Comics property to be tapped for the bigscreen by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Peter Berg and Akiva Goldsman will produce the pic for the studio, with Berg to pen the screenplay with an eye to direct. Also taking producing credit are John Cameron and Sarah Aubrey for Berg's Film 44, and Kerry Foster for Goldsman's Weed Road.
Film will follow the exploits of the highly skilled CIA team members as they are attacked by their own agency and left for dead. They set out to learn why they were betrayed, and to avenge the wrong, as well as other injustices they encounter.
DC Comics, a subsid of Warner Bros., and home to numerous comicbook heroes including "Batman" and "Superman," revived "The Losers" strip several years ago under the Vertigo imprint after a 30-year hiatus.
Warner Bros. Pictures' Dan Lin and creative exec Matt Reilly are overseeing "Losers" for the studio. Gregory Noveck is the development exec at DC Comics.
Berg, also an actor, is set to direct upcoming projects "The Kingdom" and "Bran Mak Morn." He penned and directed "Friday Night Lights" and helmed "The Rundown" for Universal Pictures, where he has a deal.
Pete got a lot of respect for FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, and his being a successful actor-writer-director has made THE LOSERS that much easier to "package" and has given it some real momentum. Jock and I met up with him a couple of months ago in London, and we both got the sense that he gets it.
This is going to be fun!
8 comments:
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HOT DAMN! Congrats! I don't suppose you or Jock are involved in the film's production?
We're not officially involved, but the fact that Pete Berg even asked to meet with us in the first place as a good sign. Both he and Greg Noveck at DC have been good about keeping us in the loop. Hmm, I wonder if we'll merit an on-screen credit... ?
Thought better of it and put this comment into an email.
Congratulations! Really looking forward to it. Saw "The Rundown" on a plane, and enjoyed it - a notch-above the usual, and based on that it would seem he is a good fit for "The Losers"
Both The Rundown and Very Bad Things showed Berg having a quirky POV that added a little something extra to both films. (Still haven't seen FNL yet.) And the short-lived Wonderland had a lot of potential. I think he's a great match for The Losers. Now if only he can figure out a role for Christopher Walken. Max, maybe?
Congrats!
Hope you can do a walk-in something like what Stan Lee has been doing on the various Marvel movies! :)
Congratulations. I'm very much looking forward to this - if they capture the tone of the book (intelligent + fun + political commentary).
Let's hope this leads to you writing some screenplays in the future, eh?
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