Video Game movies suck. We all know this. But for some stupid reason we keep letting our hopes get up for the newest game-to-screen films. For example, I’m actually looking forward to seeing the Spy Hunter movie. I can’t explain why… I just am. Maybe it’s The Rock being in it… maybe it’s the car… maybe it’s the action.
The good folks over at Filmforce are now reporting that the screenplay for the Spy Hunter movie has been leaked… and it sounds like fun:
Terence Monroe into IES and steal’s Palmer’s code. Who is Monroe? In the debriefing scene at the end of Act 1, we find out that Terence Monroe came out of Mi5 and helped create IES in 1983. He was one of the first spy hunters and one of the best. Unfortunately, he suffered a deep, personal tragedy a year ago and he’s been on voluntary leave ever since. Monroe has gone rogue and he wrote the book on spy-hunting so he knows the methods IES will use in order to apprehend him. It is Alex Decker’s mission to hunt Monroe and secure the code.
It’s an old, yet serviceable plot. It has been done 100 times… but it works. The question now is can they make a legitimate film out of this sucker?
The advantage Spy Hunter has over other game movies is that the original game didn’t really have a plot to it. Therefore, the creators of the movie are TOTALLY FREE to make whatever story they want that would work for the screen. This could give Spy Hunter just enough of an edge to work. But it probably won’t.
