Stranglehold coming to the big screen

By Ellie Gibson Published 10 March, 2009

Script already being written, says report.

Remember Stranglehold, Midway's 2007 action adventure effort? A cinematic adaptation is on the way, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Stranglehold was itself based on a film - Hard Boiled, which was all about gangsters in Hong Kong and Chicago. John Woo directed the movie and was helped out with the game, and looks set to be involved with the new film too.

The script is being written by Jeremy Passmore and Andre Fabrizio. They're also hard at work on a remake of Missing, the movie more usually known as Chuck Norris Goes Nam.

There's no indication as to when the Stranglehold film will hit cinemas, or whether it'll be as good as the game - which scored a very respectable 8/10 in our review.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Wastelander #1 3 years ago

    Hard Boiled is excellent, A Better Tomorrow was pretty good too.
    Stranglehold was a solid TPS, I wish more games would go as mental on the destructible environments.

  • crwoody #2 3 years ago

    I plcked this up for £5 in the play.com sale.

    Played it for the first time last night, and i'm quite impressed. Only done the first level so far though :)

  • Rodchenko #3 3 years ago

    I am one of the 10 people who really loved this game. In retrospect it probably was Midway's "Heaven's Gate", though.

  • BOBBYLUPO #4 3 years ago

    I thought Stranglehold was a blast so this is pretty good news, as long as Woo directs. He's rediscovered his mojo with Red Cliff and it's not the kind of thing that can be let down by a poor script (it probably doesn't even need one).

  • kangarootoo #5 3 years ago

    Gameplay in Stranglehold was good fun, though their "enemy leaping out of cupboards" level design was a bit poor in places.

    Film could be good fun, as Hard Boiled was a classic. Who would play the lead role though? Chow Yun Fat is getting on a bit to be diving over tables.

  • PearOfAnguish #6 3 years ago

    A film based on the game which was itself based on a film. So this is, in a roundabout way, a US remake of Hard Boiled? I hope they cast Mark Wahlberg in the lead role. Or maybe Nic Cage.
    Edited by 1 at 10/03/09 @ 10:58

  • Raz76 #7 3 years ago

    Actually I think Stranglehold was pitched as the actual sequel to Hard Boiled. Seems a bit weird to make it as a game first, and then make it into a movie. Also the game was fun, but the story wasn't all that special.

  • KillallHippies #8 3 years ago

    Missing is surely a film with Sissy Spacek about abduction in Chile under Pinochet's rule. Missing in Action is Chuck Norris going to 'Nam.

  • space_ace #9 3 years ago

    loved stranglehold!

  • El-Dev #10 3 years ago

    Will it be as good as the Hitman movie and Max Payne movie?

  • shotgun44 #11 3 years ago

    Max Payne movie was BOLLOCKS. I hate misleading trailers :/

  • VicViper #12 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo
    "enemy leaping out of cupboards"

    This will most likley happen at some point in the movie, and of course the script is written the game was meant to effectivly be a movie sequel to hard boiled. Just grab the game production notes and most of the story boarding etc is done

  • space_ace #13 3 years ago

    we need more shots of tequila :)