Warner Bros. Pictures and Thunder Road has picked up the spec script "Invaders" from scribe Jayson Rothwell ("Kept"). says the trades.

The controversial action-thriller centers on a group of thieves who are forced by a rogue U.S. government agent to retrieve a video of the president having sex with the wife of an Arab sheik.

The US, Canada, France and South Africa are all apaprently locales for the film's action. Rothwell is also at work on Fox's planned film version of 80's TV series "The A-Team".