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News by Ellie Gibson

10 March, 2009

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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Wastelander
10/03/09 @ 09:06
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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
10/03/09 @ 09:39
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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 :)
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10/03/09 @ 10:01
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I am one of the 10 people who really loved this game. In retrospect it probably was Midway's "Heaven's Gate", though.
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10/03/09 @ 10:02
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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).

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10/03/09 @ 10:27
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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
10/03/09 @ 10:58
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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.
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Raz76
10/03/09 @ 11:06
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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
10/03/09 @ 11:29
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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
10/03/09 @ 13:50
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loved stranglehold!
El-Dev
10/03/09 @ 14:33
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Will it be as good as the Hitman movie and Max Payne movie?
shotgun44
10/03/09 @ 17:11
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Max Payne movie was BOLLOCKS. I hate misleading trailers :/
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10/03/09 @ 17:36
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@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
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11/03/09 @ 10:42
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we need more shots of tequila :)

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