Jeff Wadlow, director of Cry Wolf and Never Back Down, has signed up with Summit Entertainment to help the movie Arena. He had been due to make the prison-escape action movie The Tomb, but that project has now stalled and so Wadlow has dropped out and moved across to Arena.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie revolves around 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 gladitorial battle. Frosh scribes Toby Wagstaff and Darren Howell wrote the screenplay, which Summit optioned in April 2008. It’s Gladiator meets Running Man, and a premise that could make for a great film, as long as it’s done well.