Spy Hunter movie script leaked?
Source: The usually reliable script-sneaking site LatinoReview. (WARNING: Review contains strong language.) The official story: Attempts to contact representatives at Spy Hunter distributor Universal Studios were not returned as of press time. What we heard: LatinoReview is at it again, it seems...
Source: The usually reliable script-sneaking site LatinoReview. (WARNING: Review contains strong language.)
The official story: Attempts to contact representatives at Spy Hunter distributor Universal Studios were not returned as of press time. 
What we heard: LatinoReview is at it again, it seems. Last year the underground film site posted its reviews of scripts for the upcoming Splinter Cell and Halo movies (the latter of which received a rating of five stars on a scale of one-to-four), and now it has posted a script review for Universal Pictures' upcoming Spy Hunter movie, as well as a series of rough animations that provide a look at one of the film's stars: the tricked-out, superspy vehicle known as the Interceptor.
The car isn't the movie's only big draw, however. Spy Hunter will also star former WWE wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (The Rundown, The Scorpion King) as Interceptor wheelman Alec Decker. It was originally slated for a summer 2005 release but was pushed back by Universal so the distributor could focus on its other Rock-starred, game-based action film, Doom.
LatinoReview writer El Mayimbe handles the recap of the script (as he did for the Halo and Splinter Cell reviews) and gives it an overall grade of B+ (it seems the site has changed its ratings scale recently). There are some light spoilers along the way (and in the rest of this story), so tread carefully.
In the script Mayimbe reviews, the Spy Hunter organization is a secret global organization whose work consists of hunting down rogue spies. Decker is an agent of the organization, and his latest mission calls for him to track down a spy who has stolen US military encryption codes. Nostra, a terrorist group led by a man in a sinister-looking breathing mask, is looking to get its hands on those codes and will, of course, go to any extremes to do so. The matter is complicated when one of the founding members of the Spy Hunter organization goes rogue and steals the codes himself. Mayimbe calls the film "a good old-fashioned...popcorn-adventure movie," and even goes so far as to compare the feel of the film to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
"Spy Hunter is obviously better than Universal's other car movie [The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift]," Mayimbe writes. "There hasn't been that much escapist fantasy lately, and Hollywood needs to start making movies fun and cool again, and Spy Hunter definitely fits that mold. Like the Spike TV mantra, a movie for guys who like movies."
As for the authenticity of the script being reviewed, LatinoReviews has a decent track record on these matters, with reviews for Fantastic Four, Batman Begins, Man on Fire, and more being pretty closely representative of the movies as they turned out. The possibility of LatinoReview getting its hands on an early script seems more likely when one considers the sampling of other related materials featured on the site (animatics and a teaser poster curiously calling the film "Spy Hunter 3").
Of course, there's a lot that could happen to a script on its way to hitting the big screen, so the plot could be reworked any number of ways. And as for the quality of the script, one man's fun popcorn flick is another man's brain-dead exercise in tedium, so that's definitely up in the air.
Bogus or not bogus?: Most likely not bogus--but not necessarily representative of the end product, either.
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