Brubaker's Incognito is coming to the big screen

Mike Flemming has learned that 20th Century Fox is developing a big screen adaptation of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel Incognito. Fox has hired Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, to pen the big screen adaptation.

For those of you who didn’t read the six-issue comic book limited series when it was published last year, it follows a former super villain named Zack Overkill, who is in the Witness Protection Program after giving testimony against his former boss The Black Death. Overkill is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities, given a new identity and a job delivering mail in an office.

Here is the official synopsis from the trade paperback:

"From the creators of Criminal and Sleeper comes the most insane and evil super-villain comic you’ve ever read! What if you were an ex-super villain hiding out in Witness Protection… but all you could think about were the days when the rules didn’t apply to you? Could you stand the toil of an average life after years of leaving destruction in your wake? And what if you couldn’t stand it? What would you do then? Incognito - a twisted mash-up of noir and super-heroics - by best-selling creators Ed Brubaker (The Death of Captain America) and Sean Phillips (Marvel Zombies) with Val Staples on colors. Collects Incognito #1-6."

Brubaker is quoted by deadline as saying that “We’ve all seen the story of a good person who goes undercover and gets corrupted” and that “This is a bad person forced to live among regular people, and how he’s affected by that.” Brubaker explains that the “goal was to have you rooting for him as he grows a conscience.” It certainly sounds like an interesting premise, and I’ve heard the comic is dark and pulpy.

Source: /film

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I've been actually meaning to post this for a few days now and a lot of people who care have probably seen this by now but I thought to post it anyways to get your thoughts.

I personally loved this comic, maybe it was a little short but I liked how the story was different from most superhero comics. This story made me really enjoy Brubaker's writing and after this I kept looking for more and more of it because he writes such a good story and I get really into it.

I have really high hopes for this movie and I feel like it could be the next really good comic movie, but hearing that Robert Schenkkan did the awful Andromeda Strain mini-series has me worried.

So what are peoples thoughts on this? Do you think this will turn out to be a good movie? Will it be a train wreck? Maybe both?