20th Century Fox has reportedly acquired the screen rights for the comic book series INCOGNITO, written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan will write the screenplay.

Incognito focuses on Zack Overkill, a super strong ex-villain who goes into witness protection after selling out his boss, The Black Death. He quickly tires of his civilian life and becomes a vigilante, inadvertently drawing the attention and ire of a vengeful Black Death.

Here’s how Brubaker described the story to Deadline,

“He’s not your typical villain and I was trying to blend the trappings of pulp, comic and noir genres,” Brubaker told me. “Zack was raised to be his world’s equivalent of a supervillain. We’ve all seen the story of a good person who goes undercover and gets corrupted. This is a bad person forced to live among regular people, and how he’s affected by that. He once ran around with a mask, but now he’s got the fake name and the fake job. My goal was to have you rooting for him as he grows a conscience.”