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Heil Mecha Hitler! 5 Reasons To Be Excited About Roger Avary's 'Wolfenstein' Movie

Heil Mecha Hitler! 5 Reasons To Be Excited About Roger Avary's 'Wolfenstein' Movie

Samuel Hadida is taking on the Wolfenstein video-game franchise. Considering that his Resident Evil movies made more than $500 million, that’s big news.  If you didn’t spend the early '90s introducing Nazis to bullets, Wolfenstein 3D is the grandaddy of all great first person shooters. It came out a year before the similarly influential Doom was released by the same company (id Software). The parallels will hopefully end there. With Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction co-screenwriter Roger Avary slated to write and direct the Wolfenstein movie, it should be a helluva lot more watchable than the 2005 Doom adaptation that starred Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (and almost spelled doom for his acting career) .  more »

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Roger Avary Finds Work (And Redemption) With 'Airspace' And 'Castle Wolfenstein'

Roger Avary Finds Work (And Redemption) With 'Airspace' And 'Castle Wolfenstein'

The movie industry can be a forgiving one. SlashFilm is reporting (via Variety) that Roger Avary will be making his post-jail directorial debut with Airspace, a mile-high thriller in which John Cusack plays a charter pilot whose plane comes under attack from a heavily armed MiG fighter jet after he finds a mysterious briefcase in his aircraft. more »