A film based on the Midway arcade game, Spy Hunter, appears to be on the radar again with Warner Bros. working to get it made. The company is attempting to extend the IP acquired from Midway into areas beyond just more video games.

Apparently, Midway itself prior to its demise attempted to get a Spy Hunter film made, and it did at one point look like the video game from 2006 (that has since been converted to multiple platforms) was going to be made with Universal driving the project. A video game was also planned to tie in with the new Spy Hunter movie. Rumors suggest that Hong Kong action director John Woo was said to have been selected to direct the project, but it never got all the way off the ground.

Now Warner Bros. is looking to make the movie a reality, with a script that will be or that is in the process of being written by Chat St. John who has written the scripts for several upcoming films. Dan Lin and Roy Lee are said to have been selected already to produce the new Spy Hunter film.

From what we are hearing, don’t think that this will be the last of the Midway titles to head to the silver screen; Warner Bros. is looking at other titles for possible adaptation into movie form. No word yet on what the next candidate might be, but as long as it isn’t Joust, we should be ok.