Adrian Askarieh, the producer of the Hitman movie, has acquired the rights to adapt Eidos' action title Just Cause as a feature film.

Just Cause stars CIA agent Rico Rodriguez, who has been tasked with overthrowing the dictator of a Caribbean island. The story was based on the real-life invasion of Panama, codenamed "Operation Just Cause."

Variety reports that Askarieh plans to produce the film independently, and is currently in the process of raising $30 million in financing for the project.

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With Square Enix's $120 million purchase of Eidos now complete, lifetime sales figures of their major franchises have been revealed.

The information was provided as part of Square Enix's "Corporate Strategy Meeting," during which the company discussed "synergies" and presented materials on the "Eidos Integration."

Square Enix
• Final Fantasy franchise > 85 million units
• Dragon Quest franchise > 47 million units
• Kingdom Hearts franchise > 12 million units
Eidos
• Tomb Raider franchise > 30 million units
• Hitman franchise > 8 million units

Details on the sales of other Eidos-owned franchises, including Kane & Lynch (around 1.75 million units) and Deus Ex (over 2 million units), were also provided in bar graph form, along with individual figures for the various iterations of Hitman and Tomb Raider.

For those of you interested in helping overthrow the government of San Esperito, a demo of Just Cause is now available. The 543mb download includes four missions from this GTA-like third person action game. Thanks GameSpot. Xbox 360 gamers can find this demo on the Marketplace.