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."

Comments

Spy Hunter !?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

You gotta be fucking kidding me. the game that was inspired by the cars in James Bond movies, is now inspiring a movie series?

The End

[ThisIsFred]

While, looks like this is the end of the line for John Woo. This is about as low as one can stoop. Sorry if you disagree, but he has had a hand in producing some of the worst crap to ever be spattered on the silver screen. If you don't believe me, watch MI:2 and try not to wince. It the old rip-off-the-latex-mask-disguise device not once, but three times. Even the most lame Scooby Doo mystery managed to use this gag only once, and the audience wasn't asked to take Scooby Doo seriously.

I look forward to the day when John Woo's next project is "Job Hunter".

Re:The End

[irving47]

In his defense, it was Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga that wrote MI:2. Woo just directed it. (yeah, THEM. The ones responsible for Star Trek Voyager.) (shudder)

Re:The End

[Borg453b]

My grudge with the MI films was that they pissed on the original concept: Teamwork. The movie goes along with the standard: one action hero and ditches the one thing that made the series great: specialists cooperating

Re:No Woo

[neoform]

I still can't figure out how he keeps getting work.. He's all explosion and nothing else.. his best movie was Face-Off and even that had the most implausible story.

Re:the rock...?

[Anonymous Coward]

He's just as good as Arnold and about 10x better than Vin Diesel.

Re:No Woo

[Golias]

Blaspheme.

His best movie was probably "The Killer", followed closely by "Hard Boiled."

All of his Hong Kong movies pwn, All of his Hollywood movies are t3h suck.

What could the story line be?

[E10Reads]

Honestly, the game was a 2-d top scroller that had no more plot than dodge, dodge, fire. He must be planning an exploding boathouse scene though, I'm sure of that: Spyhunters car speeds towards the boathouse. Helecopter hovers overhead raining down a birrage of bombs. The car zooms into the boathouse, Spyhunter leaps from car to boat. Bombs crash through the roof, and the boat is blown out into the river by the fire and shockwave. Cheers to turning one of the most simple videogames into a 100million dollar budgeted dud. And thanks for ruining one of PKD's best story's

But why The Rock?

[steveha]

I never pictured the driver of the Spy Hunter car as a big, hulking guy with muscles. Why not somebody like Clive Owen? (Did BMW build the G-6155 Interceptor?)

Yeah, I know, because The Rock helps sell tickets when he is in an action movie. With The Rock on board the project, you don't need to worry about making an actual movie; you can string together a bunch of explosions and add The Rock and it will sell.

I love the Spy Hunter video game but I don't know if the movie will be any good. Odds are against it, alas.

steveha

Re:No Woo

[jonom]

Yes!

The Killer is one of my all-time favourites and Hard Boiled is great. Any of his Hong Kong work is much better than the crap he's been making for Hollywood.

Re:bah, who cares

[w3weasel]

Ummm, I can't see how they will derrive a plot from spyhunter... how could there plausibly be a state where 70% of the traffic is comprised of suicidal secret agents.

I'm still waiting for Toe-Jam & Earl, the Movie!