Universal Pictures has nabbed the rights to the big-screen adaptation of AJ Lieberman and Riley Rossmo‘s comic book series, Cowboy Ninja Viking, published by Image Comics. The script for the project, which was previously at Disney (who decided it was too edgy), was penned by Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.

Now, Deadline reports that Marc Forster (Machine Gun Preacher) has been hired to direct the film, with the intention to begin production on the action-packed dark comedy later this year, when Forster completes production on World War Z.

Synopsis:

COWBOY NINJA VIKING is the birth child of Doctor Sebastian Ghislain, a psychotherapist who recruits Multiple Personality Disorder patients to create a unit of counter-intelligence agents called the Triplets. But what happens when those guys become out of control assassins? That’s when the deadliest Triplet of them all, COWBOY NINJA VIKING, is called in to take down his own brethren.

 

No release date has been set for Cowboy Ninja Viking.