Filmmaker Sylvain White is gearing up to direct the big-screen adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book “The Losers,” according to Variety.

The story follows a team of black ops commandos trying to survive are after learning their own government has planned to kill them.

James Vanderbilt, whose credits include “Zodiac” and “The Rundown,” wrote the screenplay. Dark Castle will finance the project, which Warner Bros. is set to distribute.

White, who most recently directed ‘Stomp the Yard,” is also working on a big-screen adaptation of “Castlevania.”

“The Losers” was first published in the 1970s.