Is there a comic book writer that is having a better last couple weeks than Mark Millar? I doubt it. With the recent news that Millar's
Superior and
The Secret Service is in development you have to imagine Mark has quite the smile on his face.
Mark Millar's
War Heroes is a six issue mini-series published by Image Comics and illustrated by Tony Harris. Millar said, "War Heroes is everything I've been leading up to with Civil War, Ultimates, The Authority, Kick-Ass and Wanted" and "This is what my Ultimates 3 would have been if Bryan and I had stuck around."
Universal is in negotiations to pick up War Heroes, the project based on the Mark Millar-Tony Harris comic book. Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly, who are writing Doctor Strange for Marvel, are in negotiations to write the script.
Michael De Luca, Chris Morgan and Trigger Street’s Dana Brunetti are attached to produce.
The project comes to Universal out of turnaround from Columbia, where it was originally set up in 2008 with De Luca producing. The Hollywood Reporter
Plot - Set in an alternate timeline during the coalition wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Washington D.C. prompts the United States administration to expand the coalition War on Terror to include Iran, as well as institute martial law in the United States. As American casualties increase, morale and public support declines with the economy, reducing America's standing in the world. Lacking the necessary recruits, the US Military boosts enlistment by distributing pills to its soldiers which confer upon them various superpowers, tipping the scale in the war.
The story focus on a group of disenchanted American con artists, who enlist in the military to steal the pills and sell them to foreign investors at $10 million before planning to desert. Initially, however, the con artists had no knowledge of the identity of their clients that they were to sell to until it was revealed to be the terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda. when one of the con artists brothers (a war hero) is taken prisoner in an attack by a super powered member of Al Qaeda, the con artists set about rescuing him from a public execution. - Wikipedia
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