Brett Ratner is still around, I'm sorry to tell you. The director widely loathed for tanking the X-Men series was coming close to a comeback when he was being considered to direct X-Men: First Class, but that fate was happily avoided when Matthew Vaughn took the job. Ratner still doesn't exactly have a directing project on his plate, but as reported by Variety, he's keeping busy as a producer, and sticking with comics.

His company Rat Entertainment has optioned the rights to The Unknowns, a comic book series by Mark A. Altman, Steven Kriozere and Monica Olsen about a young woman who realizes she was once the leader of an elite killing team called The Unknowns. Like many great movie heroes before her, she then goes on a journey to discover her true identity and, I'm guessing, employ her long-dormant ass-kicking skills. There's no word on whether or not Ratner would direct or even what kind of a priority this is for the studio-- they've got plenty of other projects in development-- so try not to panic just yet, fans of the comic. This could be so far away from happening that it will never exist at all.