Samuel Hadida is taking on the Wolfenstein�video-game franchise. Considering that his Resident Evil movies made more than $500 million, that?s big news. �If you didn?t spend the early '90s introducing Nazis to bullets, Wolfenstein 3D is the grandaddy of all great first person shooters.If you?ve ever pointed a gun at a bad guy, you owe Wolfenstein royalties. The game came out a year before the similarly influential�Doom, was made by the same company (id Software), and, thanks to the involvement of Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary, who will write and direct, the movie should be much better.
Reports of �a Wolfenstein�adaptation have been kicking around since 2002 when trade reports of video-game movies being developed were more plentiful than TSA pat-downs. Like so many of those projects, however, the film did not materialize. �In 2007, news of Avary's involvement with the film broke, although his arrest and subsequent imprisonment on vehicular manslaughter charges the following year put both the project and its director out of the public eye. �But now they?re back, and there is reason to hope. Five of them, actually.
1. The Players
The press release for the latest incarnation of Wolfenstein� promised a blend between Inglourious Basterds and Captain America, and that?s not just an intern throwing out the only Nazi movies he could remember. Avary's collaboration with Quentin Tarantino�won the pair Oscars for their Pulp Fiction script. �He also directed the neo-noir bank-heist classic�Killing Zoe. If you?ve got a hero whose only personality trait is ?shooting people," which Castle�Wolfenstein does, Avary is the right man to give the guy character and dialogue.
He also has a long history of working…
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