It’s been almost a year since we reported on Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell’s very cool-sounding sci-fi action movie “Arena”, about a group of modern soldiers who are transported to a mysterious alien landscape where they are forced to fight warriors from different eras of human history or be killed. Summit Entertainment has now announced that the movie has found its director in Jeff Wadlow, whose previous credits include the slasher “Cry Wolf” and the teen martial arts movie “Never Back Down”. Now the film needs to find a cast.

Oh man, I’m so loving the idea for this movie, which has a bunch of modern-day soldiers being snatched out of their current battlefield to fight in some arena with ultimate warriors from other eras of history. It reminds me of a storyline I’ve been trying to write for ages, but never really got around to it; except in my story, the arena involved aliens instead of humans from other eras of Earth history. In any case, that’s the idea behind the new sci-fi movie “Arena”.