Stuart Gillard has been tapped to helm the sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick film "WarGames" reports Production Weekly.

Randall M. Badat has penned the next version entitled, "War Games 2: The Dead Game," scheduled to begin principal photography mid-November taking in locations around Montreal.

The storyline follows a teenage hacker whose world 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.