Paul W. S. Anderson is a busy man just now, but standing back more in the shadows and working on one type of genre, the videogame. He’s been at this for sometime, but in Now Playing Magazine he says:
“Well, that’s a game [Driver] that I optioned with the idea that I may direct, and that’s still something I’m keeping an option open to direct.” he says. “We don’t have a screenplay I feel happy with yet. We’re still kind of in the development phase of that. [And] at the moment I’m producing a movie for John Fawcett, who made Ginger Snaps, called The Dark. And next year I’m producing a movie for Corey Yuen which is an adaptation of DOA, the Xbox title. So [producing] is something that I’m doing increasingly when I’m excited about the filmmakers that we’re working with.”
So not only is he working on Driver and Resident Evil: Afterlife, although Anderson says:
It’s still just a concept at the moment…The second movie did better business than the first movie did, so obviously there’s talk of doing a third film. When I made the first movie, I always wanted to see it as a trilogy. I always had a vision for a trilogy of films…but we’re still kind of in negotiations. But there’s definitely a will to make the movie, that’s for sure.
…but he’s also working on Dead or Alive and The Dark. All videogames for various games machines.
Resident Evil is pretty much a game like the rest of the series, whereas Driver is much more modern and open game although a poor relation to the incredible Grand Theft Auto series (from III onwards). Dead or Alive will see him return to the world of super beings fighting against each other, much like Mortal Kombat did, and The Dark is a brooding and scare filled adventure game.
I do hope some of these turn out well, Driver and The Dark have good potential on paper, and let’s hope Sean Bean doesn’t suffer another career setback from starring in the latter.
