Netflix has picked up another comic property, God Country the comic series created by Donny Cates with art by Geoff Shaw, color by Jason Wordie, and lettering by John J. Hill. Legendary and AfterShock Media are producing the film with Jim Mickle directing. Mickle was announced as the director in June and adapted the screenplay along with Cates. Mary Parent, Ali Mendes, Lee Kramer, Jon Kramer, Jim Mickle and Linda Moran will produce the film.

God Country was originally published in 2017 by Image Comics to critical acclaim. The first issue immediately sold out and had to be reprinted four times before being collected in trade paperback.

In God Country, Emmett Quinlan is an elderly widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn’t just a problem for his children–his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home–as well as the surrounding West Texas town–a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage. An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him not just a sound mind and body, but phenomenal power. He’s now the only man who can face the otherworldly creatures the sword has drawn down to the Lone Star State in a film that will bring a Western aesthetic to the superhero genre.