Alien Legion: Warner Bros. acquires an adaptation of the sci-fi comic book series with Tim Miller directing

Deadpool director Tim Miller is used to bringing strange characters to life on the silver screen. Still, this time, he’s wrangling an extensive cast for an adaptation of Alien Legion, a science-fiction comic book series created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco. Warner Bros. recently acquired the rights to Alien Legion, which Potts refers to as The Foreign Legion in space or The Dirty Dozen meets Aliens.

Published under Marvel Comics‘ Epic Comics imprint in 1983, Alien Legion revolves around Torie Montroc, the young son of an interstellar businessman who, rather than pick up the corporate torch, enrolls as a grunt in the Alien Legion, aligning himself with some of the galaxy’s most despicable degenerates.

Don Murphy and Susan Montford will produce the project through Angry Films alongside Aaron Ryder, with Andrew Swett of RPC executive producing. According to The Wrap, Alien Legion is a bucket list project for Miller, who’s dreamed of filming the concept since the start of his career.

Meanwhile, Miller is working on Best Served Cold, a revenge film based on Joe Ambercrombie’s best-selling novel. In May, Rebecca Ferguson was in final talks to lead the film, with Miller in the director’s chair. 

Here’s a description of Ambercrombie’s novel courtesy of Amazon:

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them, they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll, and cities burn, behind-the-scenes bankers, priests, and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king. War may be hell, but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso’s employ, it’s a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular – a shade too popular for her employer’s taste.

Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto’s reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die. Her allies include Styria’s least reliable drunkard, Styria’s most treacherous poisoner, a mass murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that’s all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started…Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.

Have you ever read Alien Legion? Who should play Torie Montroc in the forthcoming film? Let us know in the comments section below.