Len Wiseman directed Live Free or Die Hard but despite $134 million domestic box-office it hasn’t had any effect on the director whatsoever. Typically in cases like this a director in Wiseman’s position tends to move on to bigger and better things, but after the directing gig on the Escape from New York remake fell through Wiseman fell off the map. Probably best known for his two Underworld films, Wiseman has finally found his next project and it once again is with Columbia Pictures.
Wiseman is set to direct Shell Game, a sci-fi action thriller following a detective who is faced with a moral dilemma as he investigates the dangerous black-market business of immortality.
The pic was originally written by Justin Bondi and Andrew Ludington and Wiseman and Chris Morgan teamed on the rewrite.
While Wiseman hasn’t been handed what appears to be a major blockbuster a quote from the helmer leads me to believe this one may be bigger than it appears as he says, “I’ve been wanting to make this film for the past five years, but it’s a huge film and has always been too expensive to make at the level I’ve wanted to make it at… Now I’m finally getting a chance to do it at that level.”
Wiseman will produce the pic and he is also producing the prequel feature Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.
