New Line is on a roll. First they win the rights to the Escape from New York remake, and now a big screen adaptation of Microsfot’s popular video game Gears of War.
Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriter Stuart Beattie is working on the script. No word on who will direct. CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21 page treatment by Beattie.
Released in November, Gears has sold over three million units worldwide, becoming the fourth best selling game of last year (not too shabby for only a two month lead). The game has become a staple in the online gameplay world of Xbox Live.
Gears of War follows the soldiers of Delta Squad as they fight to save the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless subterranean enemy known as The Locust Horde. The player assumes the role of Marcus Fenix, a former prisoner and war-hardened soldier. In cooperative play, the second player plays as Fenix’s friend and fellow soldier, Dominic Santiago (Dom). The two soldiers join up with Delta Squad and battle the Locust Horde through the course of an action-packed campaign.
The story in the game leaves A LOT of room for Hollywood to adapt. This could be a good thing, but also it could be very bad. Look at the Super Mario movie as an example of how wrong this kind of video adaptation could go. But at least Gears is set in the War genre, which will be easier to relate immediately than some of the more fantastical video game franchises (again, Mario).
At the 2007 Game Developers Conference Cliffy B confirmed that Epic Games does “intend to do a sequel” to Gears of War possibly set to be released in 2008.
March 20th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Hey, if Gears of War is anywhere near as good as the adaptation of Doom was almost two years ago, then I’ll be happy gamer/film geek.
Ok fine. Doom was atrocious, minus another Oscar-caliber performance by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, randomly assorted CG monsters, and an out-of-nowhere plot twist (which I liked, to be fair). And man, did you wet your pants when it went into first-person shooter mode? I didn’t, but the guy sitting next to me did.
Any news of a big screen adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus? Now that I’d paid good money to see. Ok, not my money (maybe yours), but you get my point (assuming I had one).
April 9th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Hey I dont think that you can honestly compare the Super Mario Movie and the Gears of War Movie at all. The Super Mario movie was set in 1993, the Gears of War movie is going to be created in the near future at least in 2008, that is a huge technology jump. Plus as you already stated Gears has a war aspect which is always good. Anyone want Bruce Willis to play Fenix? :)
November 14th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Hell yeah bruce willis all the way!
January 8th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
No Bruce Willis are u guys out of your mind!? Sure hes good and die hard rox but hes too old too play fenix. If anything after seeing condemned maybe stone cold would fit the part but i dont want it to be a wwe movie. Hell i say if they buffed timothy olypahant up and put a couple of scars on him hed be perfect.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Ive been looking forward to this movie, ever since the first commercial came out, with Marcus and the Corpser, and ive also been looking forward to the Halo movies, I just don’t want to get really into this, and it turns out to suck, real BAD.