SPY HUNTER slated for summer 2005

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Friday, September 26, 2003
Source: Variety, CHUD

With his latest movie opening in theaters today, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Universal Pictures are thinking past THE RUNDOWN and on a longterm relationship. The WWE wrestler-turned-action star had already been attached to the proposed SPY HUNTER movie stationed at Universal but there didn't seem to be an idea as to when the studio wanted the movie out. Today's front-page news story in Variety corrects that and states that everyone wants SPY HUNTER in theaters sometime in the summer of 2005. That means SPY HUNTER will now be the next movie for The Rock, with the notion to get camera rolling next spring.

Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (2 FAST 2 FURIOUS) have written the script for SPY HUNTER, based on the Midway arcade and console game, and Adrian Askarieh and Chuck Gordon are the film's producers. The Rock will play Alec Sects, an ex-fighter pilot who gets behind the wheel of an ultra-high tech car to fight an international terrorist cabal. Midway plans on releasing a sequel to their console game later this fall.

"I've been driving my agent crazy with this," Rocky told Nick Nunziata over at CHUD. Calling the script "smartly written, global," The Rock thinks they'll be filming come summer '04.


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