James McTeigue, the director of V for Vendetta, has signed on to helm a new invasion movie: Alien Splinter Cell.
It is a well-known conspiracy theory/raving that aliens walk among us. But given the choice of director for an upcoming original science fiction invasion movie, Alien Splinter Cell, they’re now more likely going to kick, chop, and slice at us too.
Director James McTeigue announced at the Toronto International Film Festival Friday that he is signing up to ScanBox Studios’ invasion thriller that reportedly will be taking espionage stapled paranoia from popular fiction like The Bourne Identity and The Americans, and then adding a little slice of Pod People.
McTeigue should be well known to genre fans for having been the long-time protégé for the Wachowski siblings’ films. He was the second unit director/assistant director on all three Matrix films (as well as Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones) before graduating to helm his own feature, the Wachowski-penned adaptation of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. A not-too-subtle political satire for the geek set during the Bush years, the film has developed a cult following. McTeigue has since directed Ninja Assassin, and the very guiltily entertaining The Raven (the one where Edgar Allen Poe stumbles into a slasher movie).
ScanBox Studios is certainly making hey as a new production company created by Joe Gatta and Jovi Sighvatsson, as they are also co-producing the Hitman reboot, Hitman: Agent 47 with Prime Universe Films.
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