Warner Bros. And DEADPOOL Director Tim Miller Team Up To Tackle ALIEN LEGION Comic Book Adaptation

Warner Bros. And DEADPOOL Director Tim Miller Team Up To Tackle ALIEN LEGION Comic Book Adaptation

Alien Legion is a sci-fi comic book originally published by Marvel Comics in 1983. It's described as the 'French Foreign Legion in space.'

By MarkJulian - Nov 15, 2023 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: THR

Marvel Comics editor and writer Carl Potts created Alien Legion in 1983 for the publisher's creator-owned imprint, Epic Comics. At Marvel, Potts worked as an editor on Punisher, the Incredible Hulk, Doctor Stranger, The Defenders, and several other popular titles.

Forty years later, Warner Bros. has announced that they are greenlighting a film adaptation of the comic, with Deadpool director Tim Miller (Love, Death & Robots) attached to helm the project.

Miller apparently wanted to tackle the comic earlier in his career, prior to his rise to prominence with Deadpool. At the time, he envisioned the property as an animated film for Blur Studios, the VFX and animation company he co-founded in 1995. 

The Hollywood Reporter adds that WB is aiming to turn the IP into a "space opera franchise" seeking to stake a claim to real estate traditionally dominated by Star Wars and Star Trek.

Netflix also recently entered the space opera game with Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Perhaps rival studios now view the once infallible Star Wars franchise as vulnerable after an incredibly polarizing new film trilogy?

Per THR, Alien Legion is "focused on a intergalactic peace-keeping force that took in all manner of species without asking too many questions about their pasts or intentions, operating within an unwieldly government system known as the Galactic Union that is straining to be a democratic melting pot."

The description definitely gives off tones closer to Star Trek than Star Wars, as additional reporting states that various Hollywood executives have been trying to adapt the IP for nearly two decades.

An omnibus for Alien Legion is available on Amazon which provides a bit more information on the comic.

Footsloggers and soldiers of fortune, priests, poets, killers, and cads - they fight for a future Galarchy, for cash, for a cause, for the thrill of adventure. Culled from the forgotten and unwanted of three galaxies, they are trained to be the most elite, and expendable, of fighting forces. Sometimes peacekeepers, sometimes shock troops, the Legion is sent into the Galarchy's most desperate internal and external conflicts. Legionnaires live rough and they die hard, tough as tungsten and loyal to the dirty end.

Alien Legion creator Carl Potts on the series: "The original concept was the 'Foreign Legion in space,' and all the legionnaires were human. The Alien Legion universe is a giant extrapolation of the American democratic melting-pot society, where different races and cultures work together for the common good while dealing with the pluses and problems that the nation's diversity creates."
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Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 11/15/2023, 8:42 AM
Don't know much about this series but Tim Miller is a super underrated director imo so I'll defo be checking this out.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/15/2023, 8:45 AM
@Superspecialawesomeguy - I'm still surprised he hasn't been offered to do anything for Star Wars after those Old Republic cinematics
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 11/15/2023, 10:59 AM
@bkmeijer1 - I wouldn't be suprised if James Gunn has already tried courting him to do a movie for DC considering the amazing cinematics he did for DC Universe Online and Batman Arkham Origins.



bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/15/2023, 11:36 AM
@Superspecialawesomeguy - had no idea he did those as well. Hope Miller isn't done yet with comic books after Alien Legion
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 11/15/2023, 8:44 AM
The more obscure comics that are being adapted now are definitely a highlight of CBMs having reached their current peak. Definitely wanna see more of these types of adaptations.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/15/2023, 8:46 AM
I have heard of this team but I haven't read any of the comics.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 11/15/2023, 9:05 AM
He made the better Deadpool film compared with the second but his ideas for Dark Fate were so off base that's it's very hard to get excited about his name being attached to anything.
MarkJulian
MarkJulian - 11/15/2023, 9:28 AM
I actually think his animated stuff is better. The Love, Death & Robots volumes are my jam and I still think that DC Universe Online commercial he did would make a great animated film.
Orphix
Orphix - 11/15/2023, 9:35 AM
Wow. This is a blast from the past. Remember absolutely loving this comic back in the day (yep...I am that old!).
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/15/2023, 10:25 AM
@Orphix - For sure. I picked it up during the second run, with art by Larry Stroman. I'd never seen anything like it. Jugger, Meico, Sarigar, Torie, Neebo . . . those were my GUYS.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/15/2023, 10:05 AM
"Perhaps rival studios now view the once infallible Star Wars franchise as vulnerable after an incredibly polarizing new film trilogy?"

Could y'all just let me enjoy the news of one of my top 10 comics finally being adapted for the big screen without trying to foment a Star Wars flame war in the comments? RoS was four years ago. Let it go.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/15/2023, 10:29 AM


Eh... maybe.

S8R8M
S8R8M - 11/15/2023, 11:17 AM
I will watch anything Tim Miller. I would love to see him tackle Justice League!
kider2
kider2 - 11/15/2023, 1:16 PM
Wrong Legion! This is the one WB Should be making a movie franchise out of:
TheLobster
TheLobster - 11/15/2023, 2:42 PM
Sounds pretty cool to me! The Star Wars IP has been run down to shit by pathetic ass Disney so other studios can absolutely have their own space epics that will easily rival any of the shit Disney is putting out.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 11/15/2023, 2:49 PM
This is a project I definitely have my hopes for. This was one of the best fancasts I did on this site way back when.
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 11/16/2023, 1:35 AM
Since it's Tim Miller then I think it deserves a chance.

But this is tax write-off decision driven WBD by Zaslav so obviously he was gonna do a movie he can milk out the cashcow from it. So I'm like ambivalent.

Good luck a-hole, you'll need it.

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