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The Rock Ready for "Spy Hunter"
Buckle your seatbelt, arcade fans. You're in for a Rock-y ride.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has sealed a deal with Universal to star in Spy Hunter, a blockbuster treatment of one of the '80's coolest videogames, according to Daily Variety.
In the movie version, the erstwhile Scorpion King will play an ex-fighter pilot who battles numerous spies and assassins with the aid of a Bond-esque car called the G-6155 Interceptor.
The original arcade game let players race the souped-up vehicle on a dangerous mission along unfriendly highways to try and stop the evil Nostra Corporation and its henchman from taking over the world--all while Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" played in the background. Over the years, revamped versions of the stalwart game have been released.
The studio, which snapped up the rights to Spy Hunter from Midway last year, is eager to put the project into overdrive and is targeting it for a summer 2005 release.
Universal has dispatched scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, who cowrote the studio's high-octane car-themed summer action sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, to their word processors to translate the game into a viable flick.
No director is attached yet. The feature, which could become a franchise for Universal, is being produced by Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh along with Original Films partners Neal Moritz and Marty Adestein.
Spy Hunter marks the Rock's fourth celluloid adventure. He made his feature film debut in Universal's The Mummy Returns. His headlining role in the studio's prequel, The Scorpion King, cemented his place as a possible successor to Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hollywood's go-to guy for muscle-bound actioners.
The Rock's latest, The Rundown, opens this weekend. In the Universal-Columbia joint, the Rock teams with Seann William Scott in an action-adventure yarn about lost treasure in the Amazon.
(Incidentally, Schwarzenegger--who's taking a hiatus from making movies to run for governor of California--has a brief cameo in The Rundown, advising the Rock to "have fun.")
The Rock also recently wrapped production on the MGM remake of Walking Tall, playing a small-town Tennessee sheriff trying to rid his district of corruption and crime. The film, costarring Johnny Knoxville, hits theaters next April.
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