Variety have revealed that Universal Pictures have gained the screen rights to EA video game 'Army of Two.'
The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer, Scott Z. Burns, has been attached to write the script for the film which is due to begin production in 2009 and Scott Scuber will produce with EA.
The game, which has sold more than 1 million copies since its release in March, is a two-player action game where a pair of military contractors fight side by side throughout.
With the duo player format, it may be hard to see how it can be successfully transformed to a big screen hit but, Burns says: "Because people experience the game in pairs, playing two guys who go against the world, Scott and I agreed this format presented an opportunity to make a great buddy film."
Burns added: "The ambiguity of these private military corporations lends weight to an intelligent thriller with relevance to what’s going on in the world right now. You have contractors with their own agendas, and two guys whose friendship supersedes all the politics. I told EA right off the bat I wasn’t a gamer, and that appealed to them because they didn’t want to simply replicate the game."
'Army of Two' marks the third EA game to enter the film world recently. Universal are thought to be taking on Sci-Fi game 'Mass Effect' and also 'Bioshock' which is due to be directed by Gore Verbinski. Even 'The Sims' is getting the movie treatment as 20th Century Fox takes on the challenge.
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