Spy Hunter is back on the road over at Universal. Variety is reporting that Paul WS Anderson has dragged the stalled videogame adaptation back out of development hell.
The film was originally supposed to be directed by John Woo and star The Rock. It actually got fairly well along in pre-production before the whole thing fell apart. There was even a teaser poster (look right). It was, and still is based on the Midway videogame of the same name. The game, which was a lot of fun in 1988, had all the plot complexity of a Pong match and relied mostly on shooting things. Players drove a heavily armed 2-D car along a 2-D road shooting machine gun bullets into whatever got in their way and occasionally taking pit-stops in a mobile power-up truck. There really wasn’t much more to it than that.
The movie version will be fleshed out into a spy movie about a secret agent and his super-powered vehicle battling a shadowy terrorist organization known as Nostra. It’s not known whether The Rock will still play the lead or not. We do know that Paul “not the good one” Anderson is writing it as well as directing it, which is basically the double kiss of death.
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John Woo was going to direct Spy Hunter and The Rock was set to star.Now Paul WS Anderson is directing the film but his other films AvP was a failure and also produced DOA:Dead or Alive also another failure and also the third Resident Evil will be release soon.
Anderson also is working on Castlevania with Crystal Sky and a remake of Deathrace 3000.
Anderson better think about what he is doing on the Spy Hunter movie while he plays the game and then work on the film.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
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Spy Hunter is back on the road over at Universal. Variety is reporting that Paul WS Anderson has dragged the stalled videogame adaptation back out of development hell.
June 2nd, 2007 at 22:21
SPY HUNTER,CASTLEVANIA AND DEATHRACE.
John Woo was going to direct Spy Hunter and The Rock was set to star.Now Paul WS Anderson is directing the film but his other films AvP was a failure and also produced DOA:Dead or Alive also another failure and also the third Resident Evil will be release soon.
Anderson also is working on Castlevania with Crystal Sky and a remake of Deathrace 3000.
Anderson better think about what he is doing on the Spy Hunter movie while he plays the game and then work on the film.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.