just-cause-movie posts

It's a little unusual for an official web site for a game to post anything about an upcoming movie version but the Just Cause 2 web site is doing just that. A new interview on the site with the movie's producers Adrian Askarieh and Eric Eisner gives some more info on the forthcoming movie version of the open world action game series.

The producers are keeping the storyline a secret saying only that it's an origin story for the game's lead character. You can expect to see the "incredible cinematic elements of his signature weapons and the stunts, including the fast- becoming-iconic, Grappling Hook." The interview strongly hints that the movie could be filmed for 3D theaters and that an actual title for the film will be revealed in January.

While plans for a Kane and Lynch movie are apparently in a holding pattern, another Square Enix game franchise is moving forward with its Hollywood film plans. Variety reports that the film adaptation of the Just Cause open world action game series has found itself a screenwriter.

Michael Ross, who has credits like the "tourists meet up with bad people" movie Turistas, will be handling the script writing duties on the Just Cause movie adaptation. Adrian Askarieh, who produced the Hitman movie and is also a producer of the Kane and Lynch film, is also a producer for the Just Cause movie. He is teaming up with L+E Pictures to shop the project to the various Hollywood studios. Will this be the movie that breaks the "crappy video game movie adaptation" curse? Stay tuned.

The producer behind the Hitman move adaptation wants you to perhaps consider watching a . . . Just Cause movie. Yep, Variety is reporting today that a film based on the Avalanche Studios-Eidos open world action game is in the works with Hitman producer Adrian Askarieh at the helm.

According to the story Askariah is looking to make this movie as an independent venture with the goal to raise $30 million from independent sources. The first Hitman movie, while not a critical success, brought in solid box office numbers and a sequel in the works. Askariah is also a producer behind two more possible video game-to-movie properties, Kane and Lynch (due to start filming next year) and Spy Hunter. Meanwhile the game sequel, Just Cause 2, is due for release sometime in 2010.