The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are both reporting today that The Doom Patrol are on their way to the big screen. Not a lot of details just yet, but ten’ll get ya twenty they aren’t looking at the Byrne or Arcudi incarnations. In fact, since both pieces mantion the Morrison era, I’d guess that’s what they plan to ruin translate to live action.

“The Doom Patrol,” an idiosyncratic DC Comics superhero team, is heading for the big screen. Warner Bros. Pictures, the parent company of DC, has brought in writer Adam Turner to pen the adaptation, which will be produced by Akiva Goldsman. Created in 1963, “Doom Patrol” featured a collection of super-powered misfits brought together by a man in a wheelchair, much like another superhero team that debuted in the same year, “The Uncanny X-Men.” The similarities proved to be superficial, however, and the Doom Patrol developed a cult following, especially during the late 1980s, when writer Grant Morrison introduced elements of surrealism into the series. The main characters include the Chief, a paraplegic genius; Elasti-Girl, who can shrink or grow her body; Negative Man, a man in bandages who could release a silhouette form of himself; and Robotman, a former athlete whose brain resides in a robotic body.

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