Rogue backs 'Slash'

Helmer Lincoln in 'Hack' pack

By MICHAEL FLEMING

Rogue Pictures and director Todd Lincoln are bringing killer comicbook series 'Hack/Slash' to the bigscreen.

Rogue Pictures, the genre arm of Universal-based Focus Features, has acquired feature rights to the comicbook series "Hack/Slash."

Video helmer Todd Lincoln is attached to direct, and Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter are producing.

Lincoln will write the script with Martin Schenk, his collaborator on a remake of "The Fly" at Fox Searchlight. Howard Sun is co-producer.

Created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, comicbooks from Devil's Due Publishing center on Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels the country, taking on homicidal maniacs and serial killers along the way.

Producers also are developing a Fox feature based on the vidgame "Hitman" with Vin Diesel attached.

Under Dimension co-prexy Andrew Rona, Rogue has become an ambitious genre pic maker.

Rogue, which next releases "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" and "Waist Deep," has projects including the Spyglass Ping-Pong saga "Balls of Fury" and a redo of "The Hitcher" with Platinum Dunes.