Israelite, who is set to make his directorial debut on the Michael Bay-produced time travel film, Project Almanac, is in final talks to helm WarGames. He'll be joined by screenwriter Arash Amel who will rewrite the previous drafts by Noah Oppenheim and Zak Penn which will center on a teenaged hacker who unwittingly releases a virus targeting the world's computer systems. MGM is said to be looking at Ansel Elgort and Tye Sheridan to take on the male lead. Elgort can be seen in theaters now in tearjerker The Fault In Our Stars, while Sheridan recently starred with Nicolas Cage in Joe.
With technological advances being what they are, and in today's age of largely computer-controlled warfare, WarGames could be a film that benefits from a modern update. [TheWrap]
