Spy Hunter film next July

By Tom Bramwell Published 1 June, 2006

Coming on jumps and swerves.

Former professional wrestling bloke turned actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's been talking up the film version of Midway's Spy Hunter - which is now down for release in July next year.

Scripted by Stuart Beattie, the Spy Hunter film is "well-written" but "not overly complicated", The Rock told Hollywood Byte, and aims to capture the same sense of humour as Indiana Jones - comic however drastic the circumstance.

Rock-man's confident, then. "Some of the set pieces that were written are absolutely mind-blowing," he said, although he concedes that "A lot of times the successful videogame doesn't always equate to a successful movie," and "all comes down to the writing".

So is that what's wrong with the Doom film then? Nope - "that's not a knock to how Doom was written," apparently. The Rock starred in that, playing Sarge. "Doom was very straightforward and that's the way it should have been. There wasn't a lot of room. We made it for a very specific audience and I was happy with the way it was written and the way it turned out," he says.

Full steam ahead for Spy Hunter then (or full whatever-applies-to-car-and-bike ahead), and if you're interested in seeing how The Rock adapts to the role of Alex Decker you won't have that long to wait - the film might not be out until next July, but in the meantime the former Scorpion King's got a date with Spy Hunter: Nowhere To Run on PS2 and Xbox, which is due out this summer, and for which he did all the mo-cap and so on.

"I asked how much control could I have over the different ways that the character can kill people with his bare hands? And they were like you can have complete control, so we came up with a bunch of really, really cool, inventive ways to do away with the opponents, so to speak," he told Hollywood Byte. Groovy, then.

For more of The Rock's musings on games, check out Hollywood Byte.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • jonnyreb #1 6 years ago

    I smell another stinker..................

  • York #2 6 years ago

    Two videogame movies in a row?

    Rock, Sir, you have been typecasted.

  • The-Bodybuilder #3 6 years ago

    If you smell what the rock is cooking, you would know it doesn't smell good.

  • kangarootoo #4 6 years ago

    The Rock always seems to have his head screwed on the right way though. He's very open about the "entertainment" nature of his wrestling and film careers and seems quite comfortable with jokes at his expense. I saw him on a Jonathan Ross show about a year ago and it was a really good interview.

    And of course he has to say good things about his work, thats natural and to be expected from anyone involved with a film.

  • jonnyreb #5 6 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    Very true - and let's also remember that the guy earns more money then most of us can ever dream of.....yes, he's made a few crap films but wouldn't we all if we had that kind of cash offered.

    From the few interviews I have seen with him he actually seems like a reasonably intelligent guy who doesn't hold any illusions about what he does.....ie he makes throwaway films, gets paid a ton of cash and get loads of chicks (ahem).


    Still gonna be a shite film though..................

  • Daikon #6 6 years ago

    "well-written" but "not overly complicated"

    Woah man, you just said a contradictio in terminus!

  • #7 6 years ago

    There is something very wrong with the gaming industry where two games popular enough to get made into films both have the same actor playing the 'hero' character.
    Next it'll be The Rock as Gordan Freeman. O_o