Warner Bros, according to a report from Variety, has greenlit DC Comic’s “Suicide Squad” for getting the big-screen treatment as a potential franchise, bringing villains as opposed to heroes to the forefront this time.

A mix of obscure and well-known DC supervillains, the off-the-books Suicide Squad must bury their interpersonal conflicts and villainous egos in order to survive and hopefully, shave a few years off their sentences if they manage to survive. Dan Lin and Stephen Gilchrist from Lin Pictures will be producing together and Justin Marks, who has also penned “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” the highly-anticipated “Hack/Slash” adaptation, and “Street Fighter”, is penning the screenplay.

No director or casting choices have been announced so far.

The Suicide Squad first debuted in 1959 in “The Brave and The Bold” for DC, a band of commandos and paroled supervillains who performed suicidal black-ops missions for the US government and superhero spy agency Checkmate, hence the name “Suicide Squad”. Also known as “Task Force X” in some titles and based out of a maximum-security supervillain prison, the group has had numerous guest appearances in various titles, as well as two of their own namesake books, the first in 1987 and the latest in 2001.

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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: Variety.com)