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John Woo to Direct Spy Hunter Movie?
shadowcabbit writes "Gameforms is reporting that director John Woo, who previously optioned Nintendo's Metroid series of games for the silver screen, is in negotiations with Universal to direct the 2005 film adaptation of Spy Hunter. The film, which will star Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock), has been in the planning stages since 2001, but has not yet begun production."
What I want to see is a live-action movie based on Bump N' Jump. That would be great.
I used to die on purpose just so I could hear the great music in that game. Sometimes I would wait for when I got a powerup, but usually I just liked driving real fast listining to the cool "spy" music that played for like 30 seconds. Needless to say I wasn't leader of the cool club back then either.
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I have a theory that John Woo shoots every movie at 60fps and just speeds up the ten minutes he doesn't want in slow motion.
Woo, that stinks.
Do these Hollywood fucks have to poison every fond childhood memory of people who grew up in the 70s and 80s by making terrible movies based on anything that was popular back then?
Then again, I really feel sorry for the generation that followed mine-- they're doomed to one day be treated to "Tetris: The Motion Picture"
You just had to go and open your mouth, didn't you?! Thanks.
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
Cue the Peter Gunn Theme Song!!
I hope they don't make it like I played Spy Hunter:
1. Tractor-trailer drops off car
2. Drive for a couple minutes, shoot/run cars off of the road
3. Crash and burn
4. Wait for tractor-trailer to drop off another car
5. Repeat 2-4 until the movie's over.
It'll be a plotless version of Groundhog Day.
How will John Woo work a shot of flying doves into this movie?
In reply to the Tetris comments...
Gabe and Tycho have already suggested this, only they initially thought of Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Your main issue with a movie based on a game, starring The Rock, and directed by a stunt coordinator, is that it might be redundant?
It's going to suck like no movie has ever sucked before. It's going to devour the soul of all movie goers with it's sucking prowess. In one massive sucking motion it.....well I think you get my point.
It may be redundant in that so MANY things suck, but I have confidence that it will set new boundaries on how much something can suck.
Act 1
(The Rock steps into his car within the trailer of a semi. The rear door drops down and drags behind the truck in a spray of sparks. The car goes flying backwards - optionally spinning around in theoretically impossible fashion - and then takes off.)Scene 1
Scene 2
(The Rock drives the car down a road. Don't ask what road. The background is mostly green. He shoots some bad guys with spikes on their hubcaps and curses whenever he bumps into a motorcycle.)Scene 3
(Same as Scene 2... only the background is more orange-brown-ish.)Scene 4
(Same as Scene 3... only the background is more grey-ish.)etc...
Yup... you guessed it... They will be directing the hit block buster action adventure thriller version of Q-bert based on the classic 80's arcade game!
Fucking Sweet!
Word is, Ben Affleck will play Coily!