No, this is not a journey of self-discovery where Gerard Butler find’s the child inside himself, it’s a ****ed up movie about video games and mind control, and actually sounds pretty awesome for something I’ve never heard anything about until just now.

GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in the near future, a time when mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Humans control other humans in a mass-scale, multi-player online game. Reclusive billionaire Ken Castle has created the controversial form of entertainment, “Slayers,” a hugely popular game that allows millions to act out their innermost desires and fantasies – online- in front of a global audience. Gaming has evolved into a terrifying new dimension…mind control… manipulation… people playing people!

At the center is Kable, the superstar and cult hero of “Slayers,” the savage, ultraviolent first person shooter game. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.

If this is done remotely well, it could be thoroughly excellent, if it’s bad, it will just be a bit of extremely poor social commentary on video game violence.

It’s written and directed by the guys who did Crank and are doing Jonah Hex, and other castmates include Milo Ventimiglia, Alison Lohman, Michael C. Hall, John Leguizamo, Aaron Yoo, Kyra Sedgewick and Ludacris. If that’s not a WTF cast for you, I don’t know what is. Also, it should be noted that the movie is being called “Citizen Game” on IMDB, which definitely, definitely needs to not happen.

[via iWatchStuff]