Last spring, we brought you a story about Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn reportedly being lined up to direct an adaptation of the English television and radio presenter Jonathan Ross‘ comic book mini series Turf. The series from Image Comics was co-created and illustrated by Marvel 1985′s Tommy Lee Edwards and is described as a hard-boiled noir crime thriller bristling with girls, guns, fangs and aliens.

Now, Deadline reports that Benderspink, which most recently picked up author Susan Jane Bigelow‘s sci-fi novel Broken has picked up Ross’ Turf for a big-screen adaptation. No word about whether or not Vaughn is still being eyed to direct.

Synopsis for TURF:

New York, 1929. The height of prohibition. The cops turn a blind eye while the mobs run the city, dealing in guns, girls and illegal liquor. But the arrival of the mysterious Dragonmir Family from Eastern Europe with more of a taste for blood then booze coincides with a series of brutal attacks on the gangsters themselves. As the gangs fall before the fangs, only handful of mobsters survive. But an unlikely alliance formed between tough guy Eddie Falco and a character from a LONG way from New York City – a long way from Earth in fact – offers the humans a glimmer of hope. As the strong willed young reporter Susie Dale from the Gotham Herald tries to survive in the middle of the maelstrom, and an ancient prophecy unfolds, no one can guess who’s going to win the battle for this particular slice of Turf.

No production or release dates have been announced for Turf.