McG has gone from being mocked by Internet fanboys and girls (largely due to that name) to being adored by action geeks around the globe -- and all it really took was a Terminator and a successful reception at Comic-Con.

McG's "Terminator: Salvation" is one of the most hotly anticipated movies of 2009, and it's not much of a surprise that Warner Bros has chosen him to helm "Dead Spy Running." According to Variety, the studio won the rights to Jon Stock's novel, which is set to be published in 2009, and has been the focus for bidding wars between movie studios and book publishers alike. Read more...