Schenkkan is hired to adapt Ed Brubaker’s Eisner Award Winning Graphic Novel, INCOGNITO, as a feature film for Peter Chernin and Fox Films! INCOGNITO is the story of a super villain who is caught, turns State’s Evidence against his former crime boss, and goes into Witness Protection – without his super powers. From God to office monkey. And then…his powers start to come back.
“FOX has acquired screen rights to Incognito, a graphic novel series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips. Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Kentucky Cycle, will write the screenplay. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment will produce with Circle of Confusion’s David Engel.- Deadline Hollywood Daily, 4/29/2010