Samuel L. Jackson and up-and-coming actor Kellan Lutz are in negotiations to star in "Deathgames," a $10 million action movie from veteran VFX supervisor Jonah Loop, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film follows Lutz after he’s kidnapped and forced to participate as a modern gladiator who must fight to the death in a popular online game. Jackson will play the computer whiz who oversees the deadly competition. The movie sounds like "Gamer" meets "The Condemned," a comparison that does this movie no favors.
Loop will make his directorial debut with the indie film, which he helped write along with Michael Hultquist, Robert Martinez and Tony Giglio.