Any hope for Spy hunter fades.......

[Hunter Rider]

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Spy Hunter Revs Up Again
Date: June 1, 2007

By: Kellvin Chavez
Source: Variety

"Spy Hunter" is revving up again at Universal. You can check out the script review HERE!

According to Variety, "Resident Evil" and "Alien vs. Predator" director Paul W.S. Anderson will write and direct the big budget adaptation of the popular Midway video game that revolves around a transforming supercar called the Interceptor.


He will be working with another scribe to pen the project, which has already gone through several writers, including Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Zak Penn and Stuart Beattie.


John Woo was originally attached to helm the pic, in 2004, that will introduce the never-seen spy hunter who works for a secret government agency. He uses the gadget-packed Interceptor (that can transform from a car into a motorcycle, jet ski and submarine) to hunt down agents and thwart a shadowy terrorist org known as Nostra.


Considering the game's been around since the 1980s' the car's turned into a pop culture icon and is expected to have automaker's salivating over the chance to slap their brand's badge on the hood.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has long been attached to play the secret agent behind the wheel of the vehicle. Whether he'll be recast has yet to be determined.


The Rock has already starred in "Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run," a Midway game that the company released last year. The game had been planned to come out with the "Spy Hunter" movie, but when development hit a snag, the gamemaker was forced to release the title early in order to recoup production costs.


Anderson's next pic is "Death Race," which he is also directing for U. The film's a redo of 1975's "Death Race 2000."


Adrien Askarieh, who has an adaptation of the vidgame "Hitman" filming at Fox, is producing the project with Chuck Gordon and Jeremy Bolt.
Askarieh and producing partner Daniel Alter also have a bigscreen version of the Eidos Interactive game "Kane and Lynch" set up at Lionsgate and comicbook adaptations "Hack/Slash" and "Lost Squad," at Rogue Pictures, based on the Devil's Due Publishing comicbooks.

 

[enterthemadness]

My fav director is directing a new movie! Oh, hell yeah! .

Oh...he's writing it too? Oh good lord.

PWSA is a good director...but...he lacks writing. Like his visualy sense. His angles.

 

[xwolverine2]

better than woo....

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

PWSA is a good director...but...he lacks writing. Like his visualy sense. His angles.

Uh, not in my book. He's a terrible director and easily in the top 5 list of worst directors currently working.

Who cares about Spy Hunter? There's a 99.99% chance that it will suck anyways. When the best video game adaptions are on their own bad movies, that's a sign right there.

Once Hollywood stops with the pointless remakes and the lame video game adaptions, it will be on the right track.

 

[Symbiotic]

Spy Hunter ? Oh it's gonna be such a grea... Anderson ? Nevermind.

 

[Lighthouse]

Maybe this means he won't do The Long Good Friday remake. *crosses fingers*

 

[enterthemadness]

Uh, not in my book. He's a terrible director and easily in the top 5 list of worst directors currently working.

Who cares about Spy Hunter? There's a 99.99% chance that it will suck anyways. When the best video game adaptions are on their own bad movies, that's a sign right there.

Once Hollywood stops with the pointless remakes and the lame video game adaptions, it will be on the right track.

What was wrong with his movies? I terms of the wya it looked and way it was directed?

 

[Warhammer]

Oh God?
Why Paul S.W. Anderson?!

At least John Woo was a great director with amazing action scenes.
Now we get Anderson. Something who's video game adaptations failed. Fell, let's add another bad video game adaptation. We lost all hope with Woo gone. I feel bad for The Rock, too. I hope he drops this/gets recasted/has conflicting schedules, so he can go and do a better movie and increase his Hollywood status. This could've been a critical hit or a good action movie, but it will now be a terrible movie.

 

[SolidSnakeMGS]

What was wrong with his movies? I terms of the wya it looked and way it was directed?

He's a cookie cutter director, taking the easy routes to get the most amateurish and least artistic shots. He leaves nothing to the imagination and prefers to present everything on a plate to the audience. He fails at subtlety and can take the most exciting concept and turn it into something mundane, something you'd find in any made for TV movie. He's the exact opposite of 70's to early 80's Spielberg, who could take the most mundane opject and make it into something of wonder and imagination. For example, he personified evil in ET very simply; the guy with the jingling keys. You see and hear those keys, of course with that dark and simple leitmotif provided by Williams, and you know this guy is bad. Of course, he turns out to be good at the end, but it was before that. Spielberg had no need to show this mean looking guy stalking about, he used the mystery of the character, his elusiveness to light, to convey villainy.

 

[Wolfwood]

Aw damn, well I guess this just got bumped down to a rental.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Wasn't the Rock originally up for this one?

 

[Sava]

this just went down the craper

 

[TwilightPro101]

Oh God?
Why Paul S.W. Anderson?!

At least John Woo was a great director with amazing action scenes.
Now we get Anderson. Something who's video game adaptations failed. Fell, let's add another bad video game adaptation. We lost all hope with Woo gone. I feel bad for The Rock, too. I hope he drops this/gets recasted/has conflicting schedules, so he can go and do a better movie and increase his Hollywood status. This could've been a critical hit or a good action movie, but it will now be a terrible movie.

I was thinking the same thing. This movie had a strong chance of being a success with John Woo. Who am I kidding? It would have been a success, no question with John Woo at helm and now, it's gone beyond down the hill with Anderson at the helm.

It was bad enough he was going to ruin Castlevania. Now, this.

 

[enterthemadness]

He's a cookie cutter director, taking the easy routes to get the most amateurish and least artistic shots. He leaves nothing to the imagination and prefers to present everything on a plate to the audience. He fails at subtlety and can take the most exciting concept and turn it into something mundane, something you'd find in any made for TV movie. He's the exact opposite of 70's to early 80's Spielberg, who could take the most mundane opject and make it into something of wonder and imagination. For example, he personified evil in ET very simply; the guy with the jingling keys. You see and hear those keys, of course with that dark and simple leitmotif provided by Williams, and you know this guy is bad. Of course, he turns out to be good at the end, but it was before that. Spielberg had no need to show this mean looking guy stalking about, he used the mystery of the character, his elusiveness to light, to convey villainy.

So, basically you're saying Paul is about as good as a tv director is doesn't know how to direct? Your opinion, but when I see his films...they have a nice style and shots. I just don't feel life discussing this any further.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Such an original choice. That sentence had sarcasm in it by the way. I mean aside from the fact that he is a horrid director it is like they just looked for someone who recently directed a videogame adaptation and handed it off to him.

 

[TwilightPro101]

Paul Anderson is just one notch above Uwe Boll after destroying Resident Evil.

 

[Warhammer]

^I agree.
Seriously, how do you f*** up Alien vs. Predator?

 

[Apollo]

didn't zak penn write the awful story of x-men 3??

 

[Warhammer]

Yep, and Elektra..............
John Woo would've set him straight, though.

 

[TwilightPro101]

^I agree.
Seriously, how do you f*** up Alien vs. Predator?

Only thing I can figure is Anderson knew how.

 

[Gabe99]

From Variety:
Warner Bros. to make 'Spy Hunter' film - Feature project based on 1980s videogame

"Spy Hunter" is gearing up at Warner Bros., which is developing a feature version of the vidgame with Dan Lin ("Sherlock Holmes") and Roy Lee producing.

The story follows a highly trained spy hunter whose job it is to eliminate rogue spies when they become liabilities to their governments.

Chad St. John, whose scripting crdits for Warner include "Days Before," "Sgt. Rock" and "Motor City," has been tapped to pen the screenplay.

Doug Davison is exec producing and Stephen Gilchrist is co-producer. Jon Berg is overseeing for Warners.

The original "Spy Hunter" video game was published in 1983 by Midway, which was acquired last year by Warner Bros. in bankruptcy court.

Prior to then, "Spy Hunter" had been in developmet at Universal, where John Woo and Paul W.S. Anderson were attached to direct at various points and Dwayne Johnson attached to star. Writers including Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Zak Penn and Stuart Beattie had all worked on "Spy Hunter" scripts.

Warner Bros. picked up most of Midway Games' assets in bankruptcy court last summer for the fire-sale price of $33 million, giving the studio rights to "Mortal Kombat," "Spy Hunter," "Joust" and several other game franchises -- with the intention of continuing them as games, but also bigscreen franchises.

Warner Bros. has been bolstering its vidgame and interactive biz. It bought Snowblind Studios last year, "Lego" games producer TT Games in 2007 and Monolith Prods. in 2006. The studio also owns a 30% stake in Eidos (behind the "Tomb Raider" games franchise). It took over control of the "Lord of the Rings" franchise from Electronic Arts earlier this year.