Legion And Priest Director Scott Stewart Sets Up Action-Thriller Psy-Ops
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2009 9:43 am EST
The notion is to bring together impulses derived from Predator and Aliens on one side and Black Hawk Down and the Bourne films on the other. In other words, it’s a ten little indians movie with psionically powerful military guys who face off against a monster or alien. OK, why not? Stewart has developed the story with Gus Krieger, who will write the script.
Basically, then, this is an original story (well, more or less, given the intent to draw on specific influences) being put together by a guy who is already proving himself determined to do some fun genre work with Legion and Priest? I’m game for that. Without having seen either of those films I feel like Stewart could be the guy to watch when it comes to entertaining genre stuff — basically the filmmaker that Paul W.S. Anderson should have been. I don’t need every genre film to be underground and grindhouse crazy; the occasional bigger-budged studio film (like, y’know, Predator) sits just fine with me as long as it’s well-made.
