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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."
....compared to the James Bond franchise. The Spy Hunter game itself was influenced by Bond's gadget filled cars, so wouldn't this movie, in effect, be redundant?
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Now, I havent played the remakes - but I remember the arcadegame, the c64 port and especially the amiga port with fondness.
Ramming motorcycles with your card, avoiding those annoying wheel cutters and tasting sidewinder missiles for bumping off innocents.
What we need now though; as I discussed with my brother the other day, is a new carmageddonish game - preferably set in a madmax/falloutish world with excellent multiplay and a great singleplayer story rich mode.
The shooter/car-carnage ratio is dangerously off scale.. gta is fun - but the softwarehouses keep churning out FPS'ers - We need weapons mounted on custom job-vehicles and fun bump'n run action..
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The face mask was important already back in the 60's series "Mission: Impossible". I liked both the M:I movies, and also Face/Off. It's not just mindless action, in my opinion.
Heh... IMHO, it's a step above the James Bond theme. Mancini made some kick-ass stuff. Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, the love theme from Romeo & Juliet (the 60's one), Baby Elephant Walk from Hatari... the list could go on like that for a while.
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to adapt your point. ill state:
John Woo should never be allowed to direct a full movie.. INSTEAD he should only be co-director.. get some one to direct the entire film, plot, acting, dialog, ect.. ect.. but get John Woo to direct the action scenes only.
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I seems to remember a movie called the Transporter that was pretty much all that spy hunter could & should be. It had bikes, boats, cars, and guns & gadgets...what else do you need to represent a video game which comprised of a vehicle knocking other vehicles off the screen using brute force & gimmic gadgets. We don't need a rehash of a pointless game that was about nothing more than destroying stuff. Good lord the next thing you know they'll do a movie about a martial arts tournament that decides the fate of the world...oh wait...that was mortal combat!
Aaaahh, let me guess... you've never seen Johnson act in anything except maybe little snippets of wrestling you like to make fun of so you can feel superior.
For action parts, Dwayne's a great actor. I mean, hell, if people can spend a decade enjoying Arnold Schwarzenegger in movies, I'm sure they can enjoy an action hero with actual talent.
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A lot of Hollywood directors took inspiration from him, but nobody has managed to copy his formula.
I actually thoroughly enjoyed The Corruptor, a Hollywood movie which definitely has elements of what you describe as "the Woo style" (not to mention Chow Yun-Fat). It's nothing earth shattering, but it's a damn solid action movie.
True. They couldn't afford the license fees for the James Bond theme, so they went with the Peter Gunn theme, and it really worked out.
The Spy Hunter console game has several really cool musical themes, sort of based on the Peter Gunn theme, plus a grunge version played by a band called Saliva. I actually like the grunge version; Peter Gunn played slowly in a minor key with lots of guitar. As a bonus, there is a "music player" mode where you can play all the tunes without any explosions or other sound effects, to just enjoy the music.
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