Movies based on comics may be struggling at the box office but that’s not stopping studios from swinging big. Warner Bros. is hoping to launch it’s own space opera franchise with Alien Legion. The comic was originally published by Marvel. Tim Miller, who directed Deadpool and Terminator: Dark Fate, is attached to direct.

Don Murphy and Susan Montford of Angry Films, the banner whose credits include Transformers and Real Steel, will produce along with Aaron Ryder.

Alien Legion was created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco and published by Marvel’s Epic Comics Line. It ran for 38 issues from April 1984 to August 1990. A follow up series, Uncivil War, was published in 2014 by Titan Comics.

The concept was simple, a space French Foreign Legion. Its focus is an intergalactic peace-keeping force with a wide range of aliens under the Galactic Union, a strained democratic government. But, idealism are pushed to the limits by prejudice and bad intentions.

The comic has long been in the works to be adapted with it being at Dimension Films in the early 2000s. Jerry Bruckheimer set it up at Disney in the late 2000s where scripts were written by David Benioff and Derek Hass. The rights returned to Potts who continued to try to make the project a reality.

(via The Hollywood Reporter)