Lionsgate is reported to be, though hasn't officially confirmed it will be, moving forward with a project for Sylvester Stallone to direct and star in an adaptation of James Byron Huggins's 1999 sci-fi Arctic thriller Hunter. And, oh by the way, he'll write the adapted screenplay.
Stallone has owned the film rights for some time now, and apparently was at one point considering the material as the basis for another "Rambo" film. But to our way of thinking it's probably a wiser move to develop a film storyline within the book's premise (see more below).
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Hunter
James Byron Huggins
Nathaniel Hunter could track anyone — or anything — on earth. Now the military desperately needs him for a mission that his ultrasensitive instincts tell him he should refuse. A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. It has already decimated a secret research facility and annihilated a squad of elite military guards. And the raging creature is headed south toward civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation.
It's a job that Hunter can't turn down, but he soon discovers that his prey is terror incarnate, a half-human abomination created by a renegade agency through a series of outlawed genetic experiments. It has man's cunning, a predator's savageness, and a prehistoric power that has transcended the ages. And even if Hunter survives its unrelenting hunger for human blood, he'll still have to confront the grim reality that it may have grown immortal.
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