Today ’s finest soldier kidnapped through prison term and space to a battlefield where they have to fight back the dandy warriors of all fourth dimension in a barbarous unforgiving engagement to the destruction ? The sales pitch for new foretell movie Arena may be canonic , but that does n’t needs mean that we have n’t seen it before , and fairly recently .
Arena , which will be produced by Michael Clayton studio Summit Entertainment and yield company Benderspink , plans to take a familiar idea and make it … well , pretty much what you ’d expect but with a better budget , if Variety ’s write - up is anything to go by :
[ The s]tory centers on a group of modern - 24-hour interval soldiers who are mysteriously transported from the thick of battle to a terrain - shifting landscape painting where they must contend the good warriors of all dissimilar eras and histories in a gladiatorial fight to the death — or be stamp out by the all - powerful operators of the “ Arena . ”
Would one of those wheeler dealer be called Monarch , by any probability ? The similarities tolast yr ’s DC serial of … well , almost an identical name , really , Countdown : Arena , seem somewhat obvious ; that serial also have Hero and villain from across time and multiple Earths brought together by a mysterious force play so as to fight gladatorial game to the destruction . And even that serial was a tear - off of Marvel ’s Secret Wars and Contest of Champions series … Which were , in bend , pretty much quondam Star Trek plots . Will this mess of unoriginality never cease ?
tiptop introduce ‘ Arena’[Variety ]
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