THR is reporting that actor/director Ben Affleck is in talks to star and direct the thriller LINE OF SIGHT.
The Warner Brothers production, set for a 2013 release, focuses on a ‘commando squad transporting cargo while dealing with a global threat.’ The story is told through the first person point-of-view much like the Call of Duty computer game franchise. The film is even more geared towards the computer game concept with a recent re-draft of the script from Peter O’Brien the writer behind the Xbox 360 game Halo: Reach.
The project is produced by Joel Silver over at Silver Productions, with a script originally written by F. Scott Frazier (another computer game writer).
Ben Affleck is a busy boy at the moment as he has just began filming ARGO, a thriller set during the Iran hostage crisis, starring himself, Bryan Cranston (BREAKING BAD), John Goodman (RED STATE), Clea DuVall (THE FACULTY), Zeljko Ivanek (HEROES) and Titus Welliver (THE GOOD WIFE).
Of course this is not the first time a Hollywood film has tried to utilise the first person shooter, with most memorably being with DOOM, which… well… didn’t work. But with someone as adept as Affleck is at the helm, maybe things will be different.
