There is a virus plaguing film. It casts aside any new ideas or film with actual substance in favor of high-flying glitz and superhero glamour. That’s right, it’s the comic book adaptation and we have yet another adaptive announcement. Guy Ritchie has, to this point, created spectacles out of style. His two major works, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch worked on this empty visual expression, so perhaps adapting his own Virgin Comics series “The Gamekeeper” isn’t too much of a mis-step.

According to Variety, this marks the first (and hopefully last) Virgin Comic book to get the film treatment. The story revolves around a reclusive care taker of a Scottish estate, who just happens to have an infinite (that’s right INFINITE!) knowledge of animal behavior. When the killer of his son surfaces, the caretaker finds that “Europe's urban jungle is not so unlike that of the natural landscape to which he's accustomed.”

It sounds more like a superhero version of Man vs. Beast, except the beast is replaced with a man who is playing the part of the beast. Confusing, I know. Before this project gets off the ground, Ritchie has to finish up directing RocknRolla, which pits the London underground against Russian gangsters. That sounds a better.