Academy Award-winning screenwriters Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to produce Sleeper, the Wildstorm comic book by Captain America: The Winter Soldier author Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, Brubaker’s frequent collaborators.Brubaker and Phillips also have Criminal: Coward set to be adapted by director Kim Jee-Woon.The series was actually set in the WildStorm Universe–the last title from which has just been announced as cancelled in the New 52, although it’s similar in tone to Brubaker and Phillips’s non-superhero works. Variety describes the project as “set in noir universe where a few people are spontaneously developing superpowers” and explains that it “follows Holden Carver, a man who can absorb pain and pass it on to others, as he infiltrates a criminal organization on behalf of a law enforcement agency. His allegiances come into question, especially when he falls for the alluring killer, Miss Misery.”
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