After HBO's Watchmen and the historical drama One Night in Miami, Regina King is setting a return to comic book adaptations. King has been tapped to direct Bitter Root, an adaptation of the Images Comics series of the same name.

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler is lending his producing prowess to another comic book movie, as he has signed on to produce an adaptation of the Image Comics series Bitter Root along with his wife Zinzi Evans, as well as his Fruitvale Station collaborator Sev Ohanian. Bitter Root was created by David F. Walker and Sanford Greene along with Chuck Brown. According to Deadline, which broke the news, the comic is set during the vibrant Harlem Renaissance of 1924 and follows "a fractured family of once-great monster hunters who must face an unimaginable evil that descends upon New York …