I am – Hercules!!

The great Warren Ellis, whose superb sci-fi graphic novel “Ocean” is wending its way toward cinematic greatness, is watching as another of his awesome titles, “Red,” inches toward a greenlight.

Writers Erich & Jon Hoeber (Dominic Sena’s looming thriller “Whiteout”) are adapting.

The Hollywood Reporter describes:

The three-issue comic series, published in 2003, told the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his secret identity compromised and his love interest in danger, the man must reassemble his old team to figure out who is out to get them.

The Reporter asserts that this is the first DC Comics title being made outside the Time Warner fold. But wasn’t “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” a Fox release?

Read all of Borys Kit’s story on the matter here.