David Yates Ponders "Who is Jake Ellis?"

David Yates  is attached to direct a film adaptation of Nathan Edmondson's espionage comic "Who is Jake Ellis?" says Heat Vision.

The story follows a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst and mercenary spy on the run, protected only by the mysterious title character "Jake Ellis" who is seemingly invisible to everyone except the analyst.

The search is underway to nab writers to pen the adapted script

 Peter Chernin is producing the film.

 Yates will shoot the re-imagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan" at Warner Bros. first.