In a pre-emptive bid, writer-producer Ronald Shusett and Daniel Alter have teamed up to option the feature film rights to Jordan Raskin's "Industry of War," an Image Comics series that debuts in September. The story revolves around a former gang member and recent parolee who accidentally stumbles across the latest weapon on the agents' retrieval list: a bio-symbiotic prototype suit designed for foot soldiers and programmed for an assassination mission during the 1991 Gulf War. Shusett -- who co-created 20th Century Fox's "Alien" franchise and most recently executive produced the studio's and Steven Spielberg's Tom Cruise starrer "Minority Report" -- will co-write the "Industry" screenplay with series creator and artist Raskin.

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