Universal Buys Rights to Army of Two

EA’s popular video-game “Army of Two” is on the fast-track to becoming a major motion picture according to Variety. Universal Pictures purchased the screen rights to the video-game and is reportedly putting the movie on a fast track in 2009.

EA’s Scott Stuber will serve as executive producer on the film. A script is currently in development by the scribe of “The Bourne Ultimatium,” Scott Z. Burns.

Launched in March, “Army of Two” is a two-player action game in which a pair of private military contractors fight their way through a web of intrigue.

“Because people experience the game in pairs, playing two guys who go against the world, Scott and I agreed this format presented an opportunity to make a great buddy film,” Burns said. “The ambiguity of these private military corporations lends weight to an intelligent thriller with relevance to what’s going on in the world right now. You have contractors with their own agendas, and two guys whose friendship supersedes all the politics. I told EA right off the bat I wasn’t a gamer, and that appealed to them because they didn’t want to simply replicate the game.”

“Army of Two” is the third EA game that will be coming to the big-screen in the near future. Other popular games include a big-screen adaption of “The Sims” and “Mass Effect.”