Penn-ing a new SPY HUNTER

New screenwriter is in talks to write a new script

By Patrick Sauriol     May 26, 2004
Source: Variety

Universal's SPY HUNTER is getting a new tune-up, this time from screenwriter Zak Penn. Variety reports that the X2 and BEHIND ENEMY LINES scribe is in contract negotiations to do a new draft of the action-adventure project for director John Woo. Before this point the SPY HUNTER script has already had four writers come and go -- OK, it's only been two major rewrites since the four writers were two writing duos but the point is made. What changes Penn may make to the project's shape and direction remain unclear.

Universal better hope that Penn can deliver fast; the studio wants to have SPY HUNTER out in theaters by next summer.


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