October 2, 2006 - The long-rumored sequel to 1983's WarGames is finally moving ahead. Stuart Gillard (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, TV's Charmed) has been hired to direct WarGames 2: The Dead Game.

The sequel will lens mid-November in Montreal. The screenplay was written by Randall M. Badat.

WarGames 2 will revolve around a teenage hacker whose world, according to ProductionWeekly.com, "gets turned upside after playing an online terrorist-attack simulator game against a government super-computer designed to profile potential terrorists. All hell breaks loose when Homeland Security is convinced that he's a terrorist intent on disrupting the fabric of society."

The John Badham-directed original – starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy and Dabney Coleman – followed a teenage computer whiz and prankster whose videogame mischief almost sparked World War III.