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A Just Cause movie is in production, with Blue Beetle director in chargeQue Rico

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Image credit:Square Enix

Image credit:Square Enix

The hero of Just Cause 4 rides a motorbike away from an explosion and a pursuing fighter jet.

Two of the producers in charge, Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, were behind Ryan Gosling stuntman movie The Fall Guy and the “everyday bloke lets loose” action of Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk. Another producer on the team, Dimitri M. Johnson, was involved in Sonic The Hedgehog 3, plus the co-op videogameIt Takes Two. So, that seems like the right crowd to make a movie largely about grappling hook hijinks. Pray they get further than the last crowd whooptioned the rights back in 2010, as that plan slowly fizzled out.

Just Cause as an open world shooter has had ups and downs. Its most recent installment,Just Cause 4, was our least-liked so far, suffering bugs and annoying menus. “How did such an established and entertaining series end up in such a quagmire?” asked John (RPS in peace) in ourJust Cause 4 review. Maybe the movie will take us back to simpler times, when it was enough to ride along in your speedboat, the pleasure of the sea spray in your hair, an enemy soldier screaming sonorously as you drag him along behind you on a rope. Ah, el mar.