Morgan Freeman teams with Bruce Willis for DC Comics flick Red

Morgan Freeman has joined Bruce Willis in the Summit Entertainment film adaptation of the DC Comics/ WildStorm property RED. Variety reports:

Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing with DC executive Gregory Noveck serving as executive producer. Brothers Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber are writing the script.

"Red" was originally written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner. The three-book series, published in 2003 and 2004, tells the story of a former black-ops CIA agent now living a quiet life in retirement until the day a high-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him.