According to Variety, Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to ‘Hench’, with Danny McBride of “Eastbound and Down” to star.  McBride will also co-write the script with Shawn Harwell.

The graphic novel, written by Adam Beechen and Mario Bello, deals with a former football player in need of a job, so he signs on as a henchmen to a big wig villain.