Howard Chaykin and David Tischman were doing American Century, which was a '50s crime book at Vertigo.

Both those bases were already covered, so to hell with it, let's just throw away the original concept, keep the title and come up with something completely new from scratch.

[2] The Losers' reimagining was set against events surrounding and including the War on Terror.

Originally a Special Forces team integrated with the Central Intelligence Agency.

In the 90s, the Losers were betrayed by their handler, Max, and left for dead following the conclusion of their operation.

All stories are written by Andy Diggle, with Jock on the majority of art duties: In 2010, a "double volume", including both Ante Up and Double Down, was released to tie in with the film adaptation and a second book to collect the rest of the series: In the week after the film's release, The Losers: Book 1 topped the New York Times paperback graphic books list.

The Losers was directed by Sylvain White, with a screenplay by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt.

[6][7][8][9][10] The actors starring in the film are Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short and Jason Patric.