The Getaway
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Getaway, The

Genre:
Video Game Adaptation/Action/Crime.

Studio:
Screen Gems.

Production Company:
Unknown.

Project Phase:
Pre-script stage.

Who's In It:
Unknown.

Who's Making It:
Unknown. Based on the Sony Computer Entertainment game The Getaway.

Premise:
After being double-crossed by a mob boss, an English hood plans to get his revenge, line his pockets and avoid capture by London police.

Release Date:
Unknown.

Comments:
Sony's GETAWAY hit store shelves during the holiday 2002 season and was a best-seller. A sequel is in development. The game was influenced by the recent spate of English crime noir films like LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS and SNATCH, as well as Rockstar Games' smash PS2 game, GRAND THEFT AUTO.

Scoop Feedback:

April 22, 2003... The Hollywood Reporter claims that Sony Pictures wants to make a movie out of the PlayStation 2 action game THE GETAWAY. THR's sources say that the property would wind up in development at Screen Gems, Sony's independent film branch. No attached talent has been revealed as of yet; the project is most likely still in the early stages for any writers or development execs to have been assigned to it.

The idea is to release the movie in time to coincide with the release of THE GETAWAY 2 on the PS2. Ideally the film would move into production in the first part of 2004, giving the game developers 18-24 months to finish their sequel.

The first GETAWAY game is about a London criminal who plans to get even with a notorious mob boss. Along the way he shoots up pursuing police cars and other gangsters out to ice him while performing various nefarious missions. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter.]