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Variety reports that Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to EA’s Army of Two, with the studio looking to fast-track the project to begin production in 2009.
Scott Stuber will produce with EA, while The Bourne Ultimatum co-writer Scott Z. Burns is on board to write the script.
“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 told Variety. “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 joins two other EA properties making their way to film: The Sims is being developed at 20th Century Fox, while Mass Effect has been optioned. Universal only recently announced it had acquired BioShock movie rights, with Gore Verbinski to direct.
