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Peter Straughan's script will play up the action and sexier elements of the story much the same way that Lionel Wigram, who co-wrote and produced "Sherlock Holmes," reimagined the detective (limned by Robert Downey Jr.) as a bare-knuckle boxing, martial-arts savvy sleuth.

No plot details are known but sources say "The Zone" revolves around an alien invasion, will be improv-based and cast with relative unknowns.

A CIA squad, known informally as "the boys," keeps watch on the proliferation of superheroes and, if necessary, intimidates or eliminates them.