Brad Peyton Will Direct Dwayne Johnson in Video Game Adaptation Rampage
We learned last month that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is set to star in an adaptation of the 1986 arcade game Rampage, which will see the action hero saving the world from massive monsters including a werewolf and an ape. Read on for the latest on this developing project.
Deadline reports today that Brad Peyton is in talks with New Line Cinema to direct the Rampage adaptation, to be produced by Beau Flynn. Peyton previously directed Johnson in this summer’s San Andreas, the hit film recently passing the $460 million global gross mark worldwide.
Peyton will produce Rampage with Flynn and his New Line-based FlynnPictureCo. and John Rickard (How To Be Single) through his Rickard Pictures. Seven Bucks Productions, co-founded by Johnson and Dany Garcia, will produce in a to-be-determined capacity. Jeff Fierson will executive produce.
The live-action adaptation of the 1980s Midway Arcade game has a script by Ryan Engle, who wrote the Liam Neeson-starrer Non-Stop.
In the game players would grab their way through Chicago, punch up New York, and jump on San Francisco. Three indescribably nasty characters who bear a remarkable likeness to King Kong, Godzilla, and The Wolf Man needed you to send them on a RAMPAGE in an enduring 150 days of destruction through 50 different cities!
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