Derek Kolstad, the screenwriter behind the John Wick franchise and action movie Nobody, has set his sights on a new shoot ‘em up.

The scribe has come aboard to adapt Ordained, a comic from upstart comic book publisher Bad Idea. Kolstad made the announcement a a Bad Idea panel held Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con.

Kolstad is already in business with Bad Idea, working with writer Robert Venditti and artist Tomas Giorello on a comic mini-series titled Planet Death. When he heard that Venditti was working on a new project, Ordained, he wanted a peak. He geeked out over what he saw.

“When I read Ordained, I knew I had to adapt it and told Bad Idea they would have to pry it from my cold dead hands,” he said.

Bad Idea’s Dinesh Shamdasani and Benjamin Simpson are producing the adaptation.

It’s easy to see why Ordained would...