Earlier this month, we brought you the news when director Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, X-Men: First Class) has picked up the rights to Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar‘s comic book series Superior, a story about a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is granted a magic wish to be transformed into a superhero.

Now, THR reports that Universal Pictures is in negotiations to snag the rights to one of Millar’s other projects called War Heroes, a comic books series by Millar and Tony Harris. The story centers on a U.S. military experimental program developed in light of dwindling enlistments and the expanding war on terrorism that gives ordinary soldiers superpowers. When a rogue group of the super-soldiers breaks off to form a criminal enterprise, one hero rises from their ranks to prevent catastrophic results.

Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, who are currently penning the Doctor Strange film for Marvel Studios, are in negotiations to write the script. Millar and Harris will act as executive producers on the project.

 

No production or release dates have been announced for War Heroes.