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11 FF's Tim Story takes on DC's 'Losers'

Tim Story, director of Marvel/Fox's "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," has signed on to direct "The Losers" for DC/WB.

"The Losers" was created by formers DC editor Robert Kanigher, and first appeared as a group of hard-luck WWII soldiers in G.I. Combat #138, published in 1969. A few months later, team graduated to lead feature status in Our Fighting Forces, starting with issue 123. This original version of The Losers made a recent memorable appearance in the first issue of Darwyn Cooke's excellent "DC: The New Frontier."

The film, however, will be based more on the update of the concept published a few years back as part of the Vertigo line. That version, written by Andy Diggle and drawn mostly by Jock, ran 32 issues from 2003 to 2006, never seeming to find a big enough audience to be a big hit for the publisher. (The first issue can be downloaded for free from DC's website.)

Diggle's reimagining of the series cast the team as a cadre of rogue intelligence operatives who seek revenge on their CIA handler for betraying them and attempting to kill them.

Studio has tapped David Vanderbilt to revise the script by Peter Berg, who was originally set to helm the pic before he committed to directing "Tonight, He Comes."