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[strafer]

Rambo goes hunting.

With Expendables 2 in the rearview mirror, Sylvester Stallone is looking to his next project, this one involving creatures!

Stallone has owned the film rights to the novel “Hunter” by James Byron Huggins for about 10 years now and never managed to make a film adaption.

According to Yahoo!, Stallone and Lionsgate have inked up a deal to fast track Hunter for 2014 release date. Stallone is set to star, write and direct, which will be filmed in 3-D.

In the book, “A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation. It is a job Hunter cannot turn down, but he soon discovers that his prey is terror incarnate, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments. It has man’s cunning, a predator’s savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages. And even if Hunter survives its unrelenting hunger for human blood, he’ll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.“

Source: Bloody-Disgusting

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Sounds pretty B-movie. I'm interested.

 

[Cosmic Bus]

I remember reading this book quite some time ago; Huggins isn't a great writer by any stretch, but similar to, say, Duane Swierczynski, his stories are practically Hollywood blockbusters just waiting to happen and it surprises me they're not utilized more often. Bruce Willis wanted to do Cain at one point, too, and that would've been a heck of a ride.

 

[smuf]

Sounds a lot like the plot they scrapped for Rambo 5.

 

[Cousteau]

Hunter 2: Hunted

 

[Count Dookkake]

Sounds a lot like the plot they scrapped for Rambo 5.

It is the plot.

Same source material.

 

[SUPREME1]

Has SyFy written all over it.

 

[Sanjuro]

Rambo vs. Predator

 

[fallengorn]

It has man’s cunning

Mentioning man's cunning only reminds me about the Onion article about hunting man.

 

[Messypandas]

picture of the monster:

 

[JB1981]

Sounds awesome

 

[Evolved1]

Rambo vs. Predator

I just read that with a sense of wonderment.