The on-again, off-again big-screen treatment of Midway's arcade driving game Spy Hunter seems to be on once more. Variety is reporting that Universal Pictures is once again trying to turn the key on a Spy Hunter film, this time with veteran game-to-movie filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat) set to co-write and direct.
Whether or not Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson--previously attached to play the film's protagonist--will remain attached to the project is undetermined. Johnson previously appeared in Midway's Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run for the Xbox and PlayStation 2, a game that had been intended to tie into the movie before Universal's production hit delays.
GRAW2 multiplayer demo coming to PC
Three months removed from its console debut, Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Advanced
Warfighter 2 is nearly set to be unleashed on PCs. To tide the clamoring crowd
over, Ubisoft has announced a multiplayer demo for the modern-day first-person
shooter, to be available June 7. The demo includes the new Calavera map, as well
as two modes: team deathmatch and the new recon versus assault, where the elite
Ghost squad must storm a rebel encampment. As with the original Advanced
Warfighter, Swedish developer GRIN is on PC-development duty. Expect the full
retail version to hit PCs June 26.