Twentieth Century Fox has acquired Nemesis, a creator-owned Marvel comic book series by Scottish writer Mark Millar and American artist Steve McNiven, the creative team behind Marvel’s popular Civil War series.  Fox has acquired the rights to Nemesis for director Tony Scott, who has helmed such major action pictures as The Last Boy Scout, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, and his current film, the Chris Pine/Denzel Washington-starring runaway train drama, Unstoppable.

According to Deadline Hollywood, no writer has yet been assigned to adapt Nemesis, which is still quite a distance from reaching the big screen since Scott is set to choose from a trio of projects, Potzdamer Platz, Hell’s Angels, and The Associate for his next film, which puts the Nemesis project a ways down the queue.

Like Millar’s Wanted, Nemesis has an interesting premise.  The hero of Nemesis, Matt Anderson, like Batman’s alter ego Bruce Wayne, is a millionaire industrialist focused on avenging the deaths of his beloved parents, but the twist is that his parent were evil, and instead of going after criminals, Anderson attempts to eliminate top policemen all over the world. .