Dave Bautista joins action-comedy 'Dogtown'

Wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista is set to star in Bold Films' action-comedy

'Dogtown'

. According to a report, the film is based on

Jason Pearson

's comic books,

'Body Bags'

and Kyle Ward has been hired to pen the script.


The series was first published in 1996 by Dark Horse Comics. Set in the fictional city of Terminus, Georgia, the story follows a father-daughter team of assassins-Mack Delgado (aka 'Clownface') and his overzealous teenage daughter, Panda, who constantly seeks her father's respect and permission to go out on jobs with him and his longtime body-bagging partner.

Hivemind's Jason Brown and Sean Daniel will produce the project alongside Bold Films'

Michel Litvak

, Gary Michael Walters, David Litvak and Jon Oakes.