Jason Momoa and Brad Peyton teaming up for 'Just Cause' movie adaptation

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By Darian Scalamoni

            It seems that despite another year of video game movie adaptation failures in 2016 with Warcraft and Assassin’s Creed, studios still want to give these films a try. Jason Momoa and Brad Peyton (San Andreas, Rampage) will work together to bring an adaptation of Just Cause to the big screen, per Collider.

            Just Cause is an action/adventure video game that was originally brought to light in 2006 that was an open-world game that had players controlling the covert operative named Rico Rodriguez, who will be played by Momoa in the film. Rodriguez is dropped into a Caribbean island that is ruled by a dictator searching for allies to help him destabilize the island and take down the evil regime. With Momoa already working his way to leading blockbusters as Aquaman in the DCEU and Peyton directing bigger tentpole movies such as San Andreas and the upcoming Rampage adaptation with Dwayne Johnson and Naomie Harris, it seems this is a perfect pairing for a video game movie.

            Momoa can be seen currently in the Netflix series, Frontier (which was also directed by Peyton). He’ll be seen next in Justice League for the DCEU teaming up with Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Cyborg on November 17^th.