Spy Hunter has been “in the works” for some time now. They’ve got their star (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and a bunch of the other pieces in place… but despite several proclamations that they were “almost ready to go!”, the film still sits in limbo.
Apparently, reports of the projects demise have been greatly exaggerated, and according to The Rock, the project is still very much alive. It’s just not doing anything. The folks over at JoBlo give us this:
Says (The Rock): “It’s the ongoing saga of SPY HUNTER. “[They’re] continuing to write the script. You know, but then we have the new Bond, Mission:Impossible come out… conceptually, it’s great and you kind of want to get it right. If it’s not right, you can’t spend a hundred million dollars and get it wrong. I met with the writers, you know, Stuart Beattie’s great, turned in great drafts, but it’s just a matter of everyone agreeing that this is the movie we want to make, and when you have a movie of that size, as you guys know, there’s so many people involved… if everybody’s not in agreeance and it’s not gelling, well then it just doesn’t move forward and it just hovers and stays.
Sounds like there are too many cooks in the kitchen. Make up your damn minds. Put someone in charge, make a decision and then move forward. This isn’t “taking your time”… this is coming to a stall… two very different things.
Spy Hunter will suck… it’s a video game adaptation after all. But I’m still looking forward to seeing it just because for some strange reason I dig movies with The Rock… even when they suck hard *cough cough… Doom… cough*.
Still, the news could have been worse for Spy Hunter. They could have announced that they hired my next door nieghbor Eddie to direct it. I hear he directed a yogurt commercial once and did a splendid little Star Wars fan film. (just a friendly Halo jab)
