Warner Bros. has picked up screen rights for Headshot, and has set scriptwriter Alessandro Camon to adapt the three-book graphic novel series by Alexis Nolent.

According to Variety, the film will be produced by Alexandra Milchan and Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

In Headshot, an unlikely alliance between a cop and a hitman takes place after each watches his partner die. The new partners seek revenge and discover they have a shared enemy and much in common despite being on opposite sides of the law.

No production date has been set.