Our interest in “Kane & Lynch” has been pretty much nil, but now that Wayne Kramer is rumored to be in talks to direct the picture we’re just gonna go ahead and take a pass on this one.
Currently set to star Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx, the video game adaptation will see Willis playing a mercenary who gets framed, and then is broken out of prison by his former mates, who’ve kidnapped his wife and daughter, and give him 72 hours to recover a doomsday device. Foxx will play his partner, a ticking time bomb of a guy prone to violent rages. We’re sure the body count in this one is high. Wayne Kramer sort of made a name for himself with indie drama “The Cooler” which earned some good reviews at the time, and even an Oscar nomination for Alec Baldwin, but hasn’t aged that well. He then went on to direct the terrible and overrated “Running Scared” (how this film is highly regarded in some circles is beyond us) and the “Crash”-esque drama “Crossing Over.”
The film was originally slated to mark the directorial debut of longtime second unit director and stunt coordinator Simon Crane but he has apparently bumped heads with the studio. An offer was then put out to F. Gary Gray (“Law Abiding Citizen,” “The Italian Job”), who declined.
No word yet on when the production will start, but you can probably save yourself the $12 bucks and watch the NSFW excerpt of video game play below which is likely more or less how the movie will end up looking.
