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'Gears Of War' Movie Seeks New Home
Studios buying the rights to popular videogames in order to turn them into potentially profitable films is nothing new. Unfortunately however, neither is the practice of sitting on those rights without doing anything with them. Such was the situation facing Epic Games' 'Gears of War.' The game first hit stores in 2006, becoming an instant success, and in 2007, New Line Cinema scooped up the rights to bring 'Gears of War' to the screen. But over the years, nothing has come of that project. At one point Len Wiseman ('Total Recall') was set to direct, with the latest version of the script having been written by Stuart Beattie ('G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'), but that too fell through. Now it appears New Line has relinquished the rights to the game, instead choosing to focus on completing 'The Hobbit' trilogy. Epic Games is hoping to meet with producers in the coming weeks to establish a new home for the project.
I have a love hate relationship with films based on videogames. On the one hand, they don't have the best track record and are often pretty abysmal. On the other hand...'Street Fighter.' What? Don't judge. The storyline behind 'Gears of War' seems custom tailored for something big and cinematic. Human soldiers traveling to another planet to defend it against an alien race called the Locust Horde? Yeah, I'd watch that. I'm a bit baffled by the stalling of both this project and the 'Halo' movie. There is of course the possibility that the studios are nervous about sinking large amounts of money into videogame movies considering their aforementioned inclination toward schlock. But if the 'Resident Evil' franchise has taught us anything, it's that a videogame movie does not have to be good to make money. Hopefully a studio with some vision and talent for quality sci-fi can do something interesting with this.
What do you guys think? Would you be interested in seeing a 'Gears of War' movie? Who would you choose as director?
Source: Variety
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Comment by spencer scribner on October 16, 2012 at 11:44am -
the only thing that would kinda suck about the gears movie is that they would have to do three movies to keep it original, not add different scenes from different versions. however i would die to see the cgi guys from loopers or avatar to help with this movie cuz u know that theres allot of blood and guts for this game so its only fair to add it in the movie
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Comment by Brian 'Born-a-Bastard' Jordan on October 13, 2012 at 2:57am -
@ MJ
Even with the space baby ending?
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Comment by MJ on October 13, 2012 at 12:12am -
the only videogame movie im looking forward to is mass effect
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Comment by Dave Koehorst on October 12, 2012 at 11:26am -
Baz or JJ.
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Comment by Yet Another Korey on October 11, 2012 at 1:30pm -
I'm sorry, this is starting to bug me. Whenever people talk about the lore behind GOW they always say that its humans against aliens or that we are invading the planet. Neither is really true. Think of it more like an alternate universe, Sera is earth but it's different. Humans and Locust both developed here at the same time but Humans were unaware of the locust's presence. So the war i inevitable, but there are no aliens. Unless that's what the Sires were.
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Comment by Brian 'Born-a-Bastard' Jordan on October 11, 2012 at 10:48am
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@mjtfreeze
You said 'the budget will be the only thing that could really decide the faith(think you meant fate) of the movie. We don't want another Battleship or John Carter..." But those movies had HUGE budgets and blew Goatsie balls so how does a budget decide the fate of a movie? Some of the worst movies out there had giant budgets. This movie simply should not be made.
@ BlackMagic
I'll admit the 94 Street Fighter film had SOME entertainment value just from the cheese factor but comparing those two films just seems like your dog crapped on the rug in a few spots and you're debating which one is the worse pile. But hey we all have our guilty pleasure...bad movies not poop grading.
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Comment by Uberwolfman on October 11, 2012 at 10:48am -
I believe in Korey's philosophic of "Anything can be made as long as they put effort into it." There is a lot of artistic potential if you just look at the game, the only issue is making a movie where the endings are already known to its target audience (Gamers). But maybe if they get the writers of the video game in with the script writers they can somehow keep the story fresh along with it's gothic doomsday architecture and gritty sci fi technology.
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Comment by mjtfreeze on October 11, 2012 at 9:13am -
Having never played the game ( don't own an XBox), I think the story, would be great for a movie. However, the budget will be the only thing that could really decide the faith of the movie. We don't want another Battleship or John Carter bomb. Seriously, I would love to see a movie about space marines.
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Comment by BlackMagic on October 11, 2012 at 8:56am -
Say what you will about the '94 Street Fighter film, it's still leaps and bounds better than 'Legend of Chun-Li.'
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Comment by ShadowNeverDies on October 11, 2012 at 6:55am -
Love the games, could work as a film if you just cover E-Day and really play up the fascism angle, us being the actual invaders, and the gothic aesthetic of the world. It can be turned into a good film and the lore isn't that bad especially when you dig into how bad the COG are. Had 'breeding camps' to keep their numbers high for instance.
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