Len Wiseman to Direct Shell Game

For a man who has had nothing but hits on his resume (counting among them the two “Underworld” movies and “Live Free or Die Hard”), Len Wiseman sure has trouble getting movies made. He was attached to two films in recent years, the remake of John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York” and the videogame movie adaptation “Gears of War”, but both have fallen through. Now Wiseman is setting his sights on what he calls a “passion project”, the sci-fi futuristic thriller “Shell Game”.

Those plans include SHELL GAME, which is not a TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES sequel. The futuristic action flick involves “a detective who is faced with a moral dilemma as he investigates the dangerous black-market business of immortality.”

Wiseman claims it’s both a “passion project” and a “huge film”, but the financial success of LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD has basically given him a blank — or at least significant — check for his budget.

Knowing Wiseman’s work, and given the sci-fi setting, this thing should rock.