Driver (film)

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Driver
Directed by	Roger Avary
Produced by	Don Carmody Paul W.S. Anderson Jeremy Bolt Robert Kulzer
Written by	Roger Avary
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures
Language	English
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Driver is an upcoming film based on the former Atari and now Ubisoft video game franchise Driver. The film will be directed by Roger Avary (Silent Hill).

[edit] Production history

On February 11, 2003, Impact Pictures, the production team of Paul W.S. Anderson and Jeremy Bolt, announced that it had acquired the film and TV rights to adapt the Atari video game Driver. Screenwriters James DeMonaco, Todd Jason Harthan, and James Roday were developing a script at the time. Impact Pictures had originally intended to produce the film Driver to coincide with the release of the video game Driver 3.^[1] On November 3, 2003, Impact Pictures announced its plans to produce a $50 million adaptation of Driver after wrapping up principal photography on Resident Evil: Apocalypse.^[2] On April 20, 2006, Rogue Pictures acquired the film rights to Driver from Impact Pictures and Constantin Films, the production companies responsible for the Resident Evil film franchise. Roger Avary replaced the original screenwriters in writing the script for Driver.^[3] The producers maybe looking for a new actor.