Video
games are one of the most popular forms of entertainment around and yet the
feature film adaptations tend to be dull, badly made or over compensating in
their search for alternatives to the game original story, therefor the film studios
have been for quite some time “afraid” of touching the genre, fearing a disappointing
success in the box-office and with the critics, but regardless of that one upcoming
adaptation seems to be trying to break the chains video game adaptations
mediocrity, Michael Bay’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon.
At this
point it’s still unclear what role Bay will have on the project, since he is
still working on Transformers: Age of Extinction and there have been rumors of
a Bad Boy 3 reboot. But anyway, he is connected to the project that just got
two new screenwriters to write the script.
Writers
Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia have been tapped to write the screenplay
adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon. Federman and Scaia previously worked
together in the tv series Jericho, Warehouse 13 and Human Target. The pair also
wrote the treatment for Brian K. Vaughan’s graphic novel Y: The Last Man.
The very
popular game franchise focuses on “a fictional unit of the U.S. Army Special
Forces that essentially operates as the President’s private army, using the
latest technology to infiltrate and take down threats around the world without
leaving any traces behind that they exist.”
The Tom
Clancy’s Ghost Recon adaptation isn’t alone in trying to reboot the genre;
Michael Fassbender will most likely start shooting next year the adaptation of Assassin’s
Creed, where we will play Desmond Miles. There are also talks of a Splinter
Cell adaptation as well as the stuck Mass Effect and Gears of Wars franchises. There
are also two other video game’s adaptation coming up, Need for Speed and
Warcraft.
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