Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Arena
7/17/09 - Jeff Wadlow will direct Arena, a sci-fi action film for Summit, about a group of modern-day soldiers transported to a shifting landscape, where they are forced to face off against the best warriors from different eras in gladiator-style battles, according to The Hollywood Reporter; new writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell wrote the screenplay, which Summit optioned in April 2008.

04/28/08 - Summit Entertainment has snapped up the SF action thriller Arena, penned by new writers Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell.  The story centers on a group of modern-day soldiers who are mysteriously transported from the thick of battle to a terrain-shifting landscape where they must fight the best warriors of all different eras and histories in a gladiatorial fight to the death, or be killed by the all-powerful operators of the "Arena."

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