Fox to adapt Incognito

 I got an E Mail a while back from Amazon letting me know this trade paper back was out, due to the fact I have bought several of Ed Brubaker's Daredevil trades, however I didn't bother buying but news comes from /Film today that a movie version is on the way.

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.

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.

This certainly seems like interesting material and I am sure as number of directors will be interested in taking a crack at it, having not read the book it is hard to offer an opinion on if it is suited for big screen adaption, but given the part Brubaker mentions about the ex-super villain getting a conscience I am guessing it is not just amoral like say "Wanted" is.