Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to the Marvel comic book series "Strikeforce: Morituri," the company announced Tuesday.
Peter B. Gillis, who created the comic book, is adapting the script with Connor Cochran. Waterman obtained the rights from Gillis.
It's not feel-good, cotton candy stuff. "Strikeforce" is set in an Earth that has been conquered by aliens. Scientists develop a way to grant humans superpowers — but with a terrible cost: Within a year of getting the powers, people die. Though they're doomed, they battle the aliens.
The comic book series ran from 1986 to 1989.