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One SPY HUNTER geek goes... a bit crazy over the idea!
Hey folks, Harry here... there isn't any real information here, Ed of Athens just wrote up such a wondrously geeky piece about the potential of a SPY HUNTER film that I just had to post it. It makes me giggle to hear his take on it all. BTW - those images may be for the upcoming new SPY HUNTER game, but they are also the designs that the film is going with. I have this on a very high authority. Here's Ed...
Hey Harry!
Back in the late 80's I played countless hours of Spy Hunter in the student
center game room at U. of Georgia.
It WAS cool! One of your greatest weapons right off the bat was the ability
to whipl up along side one of the opposing force vehicles (they were all
dark blue), slam the wheel over and knock them off the road! That was the
best 'cause it was almost tactile and produced the most satisfying crunch of
metal on metal.
Of course there was more. Take the first left fork and press the flashing
button in the middle of the yoke wheel to get the weapons truck. Tap the
gas to pull up inside and within seconds you were ready to pour
devastruction onto your foes with oil slicks that sent them spinning out of
control to explode on the median. You could also add smoke screens and
helicopter-killing missiles.Take the little narrow side road down to the
river and make an instant conversion into the speedboat. (The oil slicks
were FLAMING when delivered from the boat!) And all of this set to long
riffing solos atop the Peter Gunn theme that were wild by any video game
standard.
I loved that game dearly, could play for 30 minutes on one quarter... but
what the heck is the PLOT of this movie going to be? The game was nothing
but a car that would have made Max weep for joy (on top of everything else
it never ran out of gas) and the endlessly scrolling one way road & river.
The only thing that changed was it would sometimes turn wintery with a
tricky ice-covered road heading through a white but otherwise identical
landscape.
You know, the cool thing to do here would to make this a horror/suspense
movie, a cross between Duel, Groundhog Day and the Mad Max II, where Rock
would fight and fight on this endless road, never stopping, never getting a
bite to eat, being worn down from the endless hours fighting faceless foes,
looking less like a gleaming-smiled poster boy and more like Max at the very
end of MMI, bedraggled and punch drunk behind the wheel. No matter how hard
he fought, eventually one of those blue vehicles would cut him off, send him
spinning out of control... and the next thing he would know there he would
be again, being dumped out of the back of the first truck and with no choice
but to fight on. Perhaps in the "death" sequences between his unexplained
return to the driver's seat we would get some hazy, tripped out glimpses of
the fates that put him in this endless chase.
But I suppose the odds of The Rock being attached to a plot so obtuse as
that is nonexistent, and even then I have no idea how you would end a
nightmarish film of that kind. (Maybe the camera pulls back higher and
higher and you see he's in a hell of some kind? Too Twilight Zonish?) The
Rock seems to like the stories where there is a goofy sidekick AND a love
interest AND a kid so there are lots of opportunities for broad humor ala
Scorpion King, so I would be surprised if they can make this interesting.
So there's rambling my 2 cents as a former Spy Hunter devotee.
Best Always,
Ed in Athens
So, you gamers... Any of you like SPY HUNTER? Could it be cool?
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Where's the beef?
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The 80s game was, and will always be immense. They would indeed need to create an abstract lil movie for it to be represented in as true a way as possible. Sadly, I suspect we are going to get an overtly camp waste of time. The Rock would attach himself to a violent project, but would want some Middle American family pay-offs, vis a vis, downtrodden kid he can save, or love interest. I doubt the love interest would meet her end in the manner of The Hitcher either. Eek. Sadly, this will be another missed opportunity that will proclaim to be based on the PS2 game, kids today do not think there was a past before bad pop music and Playstations. Finally, it is a sad day when our political climate will indelibly lead to clearly defined figures of good and evil in movies, and studios are just not bold enough to offer directors a shot at their cinematic vision. Oh well.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH MY GOD THAT'S THE FUNNIEST FUCKIN' THING I HAVE HEARD! I can guarantee that this movie will be great. Hell, if thay could make a movie out of Super Mario Brothers, thay can make anything. (Then again SMB sucked ass) Seriously, this movie has to be good. I mean the Rock doesn't sign up for stupid crap. Well maybe the Scorpion King even though that was fun in its own right.
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Peter Gunn remix by Paul Oakenfold ... instruments of destruction from every direction in THX... How much are they realistically planning for this ROck movie? He does have charisma and could become the modern Arnold (his voice is better) as long as this movie is big and good like Predator/Terminator not generic like Running Man. I don't want some watered down bla-blah kiddie flick, the way Scorpion King embarased Conan. Between Spyhunter and Mad Max 4, we've got potential for some stuning escapist vehicular fun next summer (or 2005, when are these things opening?). Just imagine if Spy HUnter brings the giant armored semi-TRUCKS (Roadhogs/Roadlords? I need to play the game again, it's been a while), weapon BOATS, rocket-blasting heliCHOPPERS, the armored caddy machinegun limos, the cars with the sideways screw-drills. Killer action if they do it right. The game has lots to offer but it's going to cost them money to compete against the new Mad Max and the next 007 which will probably be as outrageous as Moonraker. Is Joel Silver going to cast the Rock as Sgt. Rock?
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the boat bit in spy hunter game would be cool on the big screen if they get hulk hogan to recreate his thunder in paradise days..
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Man, would you freaks shut up! Who cares if this wasn't a mind blowing piece of news or even really news...the thing with AICN is you don't just get movie news and rumors...it is also the whole Geek culture...the personalities...if you want straight up news there are plenty of websites out there that can give you that. If you want news with a Geek flavor well here it is.
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but I laugh everytime I see a talkbacker call you BITCHTITS. Cracks me up. Better animations please.
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will all the bad cars be dark blue, and all the innocent cars aqua and red? *friendswithbenefits.com*
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May 02, 2003 7:08:09 PM CDT
And then, like, this car comes up and tries to saw off the side
by empyreal0
...and then you wake up and realize it was all just a geeky wet dream. JESUS CHRIST Harry. Are you so desperate for info on this movie you'd post some infantile gibbering about how cool one guy thought the game was? This is pathetic.
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...just became my favorite new word.
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Harry, whose blog did you lift this from? 'Cause I really wanna spam the bejeezus out of it. This is almost as bad as those 'exclusive' Indy 4 promo art pics you posted a while ago...
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