ROTTEN TOMATOES: Gears of War in Summer 2010?

Gears of War in Summer 2010?

Filmmakers have got their script on.

by Jeff Giles | March 31, 2008

The Gears of War adaptation is still grinding.

ComingSoon.net had a chat over the weekend with the film's producer, Wyck Godfrey, and he assured fans that things are still moving along as planned:

We've got our script on and a director we're about to attach. We'll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010.

Non-gamers in the audience who are asking "What's Gears of War, anyway?" can get caught up with this synopsis, helpfully supplied by ComingSoon:

Since its debut in November 2006, "Gears of War" has broken sales records on the Microsoft Xbox 360, selling more than 3 million copies worldwide. The game thrusts players into humankind's epic battle for survival against the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet. The story unfolds as a ragtag group of soldiers use every last ounce of strength to survive the onslaught from the forces of evil, which begins on the historic Emergence Day.

Last March, it was announced that Stuart Beattie had signed on to write the script; according to ComingSoon, he worked with the game's lead designer, Cliff Bleszinski, to "define a treatment" for the adaptation.

Source: ComingSoon

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LordVapor writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:35 AM

Awesome game, but this movie has "smells like a big flaming pile of schniikies..." all over it :(

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dahluzz writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:44 AM

so wait, this is now a more viable potential franchise than halo? i like gears and all, but the complaint about making halo (not enough public recognition to justify the requisite big budget) applies even more so to gears of war. i mean the halo series has been around since 02 and has sold a lot more than 3 million copies.

I wonder how they'll achieve the look of the characters from the game, just because proportionally they're so highly stylized (at least twice the muscle mass of anyone from 300...) this has beowulf mo-cap written all over it to me. However i wouldn't mind some 3-D bloodspray off the chainsaw bayonet kills (of which there's sure to be several).

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 06:45 AM

Last I heard, Epic Games was going to work with the film so hopefully they'll force them to stick to the original story and such and not just them go freely with the film.

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donwillymo writes:
on Mar 31 2008 07:02 AM

Yayy another video game turned movie! This always works, right...Right!? Hello!?

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ramack writes:
on Mar 31 2008 08:08 AM

^^
Doom wasn't complete trash.
Semper Fi mother ****er!

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 09:22 AM

In reply to this comment (#1662130)
Just a note: Halo's been around since 2001

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iggybumtastic writes:
on Mar 31 2008 09:29 AM

I hope they do this right, and although its unlikey they will get the characters looking the way they do in the game, i still think it could work very well.

Eric Bana to play the lead anyone?

Talk movies at itsfilmtastic.co.uk

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arendr writes:
on Mar 31 2008 09:56 AM

It's pretty well-known on this site how I feel about video game-movies. They don't work, as I've explained before, because the control you have over the characters in removed and suddenly you're left with a very flimsy structure.

Gears of War is a game that aspires to be cinematic, especially in the camera motions. Couldn't they have just let the game have that movie-feel and not waste our time with a silly film adaptation?

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duckmanx88 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 10:43 AM

do studios ever learn? = videogame movies = flop and/or critically panned. if they make a bioshock movie i'll be really pissed. great games do not = greta movies.

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donwillymo writes:
on Mar 31 2008 10:50 AM

I'm still waiting for the Mario Bros movie...oh wait, SH'T. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

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tempest3991 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 11:16 AM

please tell me uwe boll isnt' going to be involved in this.....lmao

he is the anti christ to video game movies

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High School With Money writes:
on Mar 31 2008 11:36 AM

: watches A L I E N S instead of this :

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Elixor writes:
on Mar 31 2008 11:55 AM

Lord Vapor captured my initial thoughts on this headline. Arendr is also completely right on. Just because a video game has a good look and feel, or even a good 'video game storyline' does not mean that it'll make a good movie.

Leave this game, Halo, and Bioshock alone. Great games, but they'll make crappy movies.

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bat-fink writes:
on Mar 31 2008 12:50 PM

The trouble with Halo IMO, is that while the games n gameplay was good, and the marines looked good. The Aliens were horribly designed cannon fodder. Gears looks and Is serious with no silly cartoon character villains to ruin it.

Instead of both of these though, Hollywood should pump all its games to film money combined into making 6 massive epic HALF-LIFE movies.

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Ruckas356 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:01 PM

i think bio-shock has what it takes for a better movie but gears of war would be the next best. but they will have to spend alot of money and get some good stars. i dont want to see it look like or feel like that other shoot'em up video game movie DOOM.

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jmo2ski writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:07 PM

Let's they just hope that the don't give us some CGI creatures and maybe more like live action things that could scare us.

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trgdr777 writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:24 PM

news like this can ruin someone's day...
i really hope it doesn't get off the ground -_-
the game's only 2 years old for goodness' sake

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minderbinder writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:30 PM

What records did it break? Other 360 games have sold more than 3 million, right?

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lilheclou writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:38 PM

i realy like this game i would see this out respect of the game i think marcus fenix should be played by the big muscle guy from sin city it would be perfict chocie and i hope they have GOOD director in mind not some bum

ps halo would be a hard movie to make thats maby they havent stated with that yet

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romsy writes:
on Mar 31 2008 01:39 PM

can we please have Gears 2 on the 360 instead of a terrible movie in the theaters? unless the rap song made of trains catchphrases is used for the scoring, then i might watch it.

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