Variety: Spy Hunter film back on track

Please oh please let it have Dwayne Johnson. It will suck if it doesn't have him, and will be awesome if it does have him.

Midway kinda got screwed by the delay in the movie production. Having the game without a movie to tie into couldn't have been good for their sales. Maybe they'll be ready to release a Spy Hunter 2 by the time the film is done.

Just thank God that it isn't Uwe Boll...

This movie will ruin the Spy Hunter name more than both Spy Hunter II (original) and Spy Hunter 2 (remake)

Spy Hunter as a movie will be seen as a clear spy kids genre of a movie. It will seriously dive. If you think about a Spy Hunter movie, just for a second - what comes to your mind? For me, straight away I see the trailier showing off some crazy stunts on the road, explosions - epic music (typically)... and then silence as the car hurls off a bridge from a bad explosion... Suddenly it transforms and then turns into a boat and carries on the insanity. There, thats the best and ONLY part that should be made live action. Think about it, the entire plot is narrated by a K.I.T.T voice over (hehe) and you hardly ever see the main character do ANYTHING. They had just better make a Spy Hunter game with a plot first, before making a movie out of it. Except some crazy driving scenes (I doubt the credibility of the director will get a big budget though..) there is nothing to this game that makes a good movie.

Do us all a favor Universal, just release it straight to DVD to save everyone the embarrassement this movie will be.

Not that Son of a B**** again - he screwed over RE and now he wants to do the same to other noteworthy franchises. If he had any sense at all, he would have either shot himself in the head, or gone and jumped off a cliff. Garbage like him does not deserve to live on this planet.

NOOOO! NOT CASTLEVANIA! Damn you, Paul Anderson!

We really don't need this...

A Spy Hunter movie? Oh wow, this is going to be dreadful. First off video game movies usually aren't so awesome.. second off the Spy Hunter games are pretty much all crap, and third it just isn't a game that easily adapts to being a movie.

I'm also a fan of Uwe Boll. I can't wait to see "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Seige Tale". Even the name is hilarious! I can't believe that he has completed four movies this year. It's only June!

Ughs. Please Anderson...leave our videogames alone...go back to making other films. But regardless...at least Anderson's movies are better than Uwe Boll's...and yes I know this because I've seen 3 Boll films. And waiting to see more in fact! They're so horrible, they're hilarious. My buddies and I watch his "horror" films for some laughs.

its such a bad idea. the game wasn't even that good or popular. if the rock has anything to do with this its going to suck. did anyone see doom?? that movie made me want to stick an ice pick in my eyes after a while.

SPY HUNTER!? I think I just oil slicked in my pants!

Not another one.:(

WOW! He Fuqed up AvP; that guy makes garbage movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh boy.... here we go with yet another C- game/movie

Spyhunter kinda sucks anyway, so it doesn't matter if Anderson directs it. For Castlevania, though, keep this guy away. He and Uwe Boll suck big time.

I didnt know they were doing castlevania. As a diehard castlevania fan (ask me ANYTHING about castlevania) i really hope they either cancel it, or change directors.

I am patientley waiting for Castlevania to come to the Big screen

Won't work.

ugh.... well, when you get like Paul WS Anderson, the film eventually gets done. I mean is anyone still waiting for John Woo's Metroid? Peter Jackson's Halo? Richard Donner's Crazy Taxi? Jackie Chan's Tekken? I mean 90% of video game movies get delayed or canceled and they come out every 3 to 4 years. Paul WS Anderson, regardless of quality if probably the only one who keeps making them.... aside from Uwe Boll, still producing and directing a movie is a lot about colaborating with a movie studio. Molding and bending a story till it's accept by all people involved. I mean that's the reason why Halo was canceled with 20th centure fox and Universal, Peter Jackson's demands were unreasonable with the studio. Paul WS Anderson knows how to really change the story to make the studio happy..... it's not a good story and usually just goes really far from the video game, but it's how films get made.

Mr Anderson..you must destroy/make another movie.

its not going to work! why bring it back to life?

Ugh. I hope this doesn't end up like the Mortal Kombat movies.

The game wasn't that bad, but the movie could be good too, it's the Rock after all.

A Castlevania movie???? woo hoo! I hope it's faithful to the games!!

I'm glad that they didn't let this project die

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I dunno. Having the rock drive the car... I dunno. 4 screenplay rewrites.... i dunno. Maybe their making it not to be so bad? I dunno.. Anderson can't be THAT bad. MK & RE both earned sequels. I dunno. I'll wait to see who else is cast.

this was a bad idea when they put the rock on as a spy. He is nothing like a spy and he don't look anything like the spy on the side of the arcade cabinet, They would be better off with rejects from the last james bond movie.

ack!!! what a turd in the punch bowl this will be

Of all games why Spyhunter? Why not The Legend of Zelda?

Maybe it'll only be Mortal Kombat bad as opposed to Resident Evil bad.

I'm not even remotely excited about this movie.

Gross.

I had very little faith in this from the beginning. However, since Paul W.S. Anderson signed one, what little faith I did have, has been flushed down the toilet.

I always say as long as Boll isn't involved there is a small light of hope.

I don't understand how this guy still has a job in Hollywood. Pretty much every movie he makes is garbage. Alien vs. Predator anyone!? << LINK REMOVED >>

a remake of death race 2000? i doubt there's any more than 5 people in the world who would want to see that

wasnt john woo supposed to be directing this?

I hope Halo will be on track like this again...

Umm Blackace...there is an Ironman movie comming out.

At least, Paul W.S. Anderson is somewhat better than Uwe Boll... That doesn't say much though...

i never knew there was a castlevania movie!!!!!

I wish he could make a movie as good as Event Horizon again.

Sure to be craptacular!

Another DOOM (oh no!!!!)

ROCk does suck. If anything, pick a slick, sly guy who doesn't look like he's just been working out at the gym for 6 months on steroids. It's SPY hunter man, pick a cool guy with a brain! Geez. Anyone see the Robot Chicken spoof of this? I'd love to see a movie of this.

The ROCK STINKS! Go back to WWE.