Paul Verhoeven Developing Big Screen Adaptation of… Jordan Mechner’s Video Game The Last Express?
Posted on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 by Peter Sciretta
Paul Verhoeven, a director best known for films like Robocop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Basic Instinct, hasn’t stepped behind the camera for a few years (2006’s Black Book). But is now appears the filmmaker is developing a big screen adaptation of a video game. The filmmaker told MTV:
“I am working on a movie now that is… situated in 1914. Basically, Indiana Jones-ish you could say, but also Hitchcockian. We are scripting it. It’s an idea that exists already… from another medium, and so we are making it now into a film narrative.” Which medium, Josh asked. “A game, a video game.”
MTV was unable to figure out which video game Verhoeven was talking about, but I think I may have cracked the code.
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