Ratner acquires ‘The Unknowns’

Director Brett Ratner’s Rat Entertainment has just purchased the film rights to The Unknowns from Femme Fatales Comics.

According to an article on Variety.com, “Story centers around Alexis Davenport, who while living a seemingly ordinary life discovers she was actually once the highly skilled and deadly leader of a mysterious team called The Unknowns and must learn the secret of why her memories were erased and by who.”

The film, based on the comic created by Mark A. Altman, Steve Kriozere, and model Monica Olsen, will be produced by Ratner.

"We think The Unknowns will be a great new comic book/action franchise," said Ratner, who's in pre-production as a producer on New Line's Horrible Bosses.

John Cheng will be film’s executive producer/showrunner, and he will oversee it for Rat Entertainment. A director has yet to be chosen to helm the film.

Ratner’s past credits include being the executive producer/showrunner of the hit Fox thriller television series Prison Break; producing the 2007 crime comedy Code Name: The Cleaner,which starred Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, and Niecy Nash; directing the 2006 sci-fi thriller X-Men: The Last Stand, which starred Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Ian McKellan, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, and James Marsden; directing the Rush Hour action comedy trilogy, which starred Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker; directing the 2004 crime dramedy After the Sunset, which starred Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, and Woody Harrelson; directing the 2002 crime thriller Red Dragon, which starred Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, and Harvey Keitel; and directing the 2000 romantic dramedy The Family Man, which starred Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, and Saul Rubinek.