Gears of War (movie)
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PhinperorLuxury BoxOPLen Wiseman to direct 'Gears of War'...
New Line is putting "Gears of War" in motion, setting Len Wiseman to direct the video game adaptation being produced by Temple Hill's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.
Chris Morgan, who wrote the upcoming Universal tentpoles "Wanted" and "The Fast and the Furious 4," has been hired to write the screenplay. Wiseman and Morgan will develop the story treatment.
"Gears," developed by Epic Games, became an instant success when it debuted on the Xbox 360 in November 2006. It became one of the most popular games on the Xbox Live service, overtaking "Halo 2," and sold more than 3 million units worldwide in its first 10 weeks. It received numerous awards, including Gamespot's Game of the Year and the Interactive Achievement Awards' Overall Game of the Year.
Set on the planet Sera, the game thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde. Players assume identities of soldiers on Delta Squad as they fight to save Sera's inhabitants.
UltraForum VeteranI think this should make a decent movie. Definitely should be filled with action and violence since one of the feature weapons in the game is a machine gun with a chainsaw under the barrel.
PhinperorLuxury Boxthe game thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde.
Never played the game or am that familiar with it, but doesn't that plot sound pretty much identical to the movie Starship Troopers, which was a complete suckfest to put it nicely...
HardKoreXXXNew Member"In_Flames wrote:
Never played the game or am that familiar with it, but doesn't that plot sound pretty much identical to the movie Starship Troopers, which was a complete suckfest to put it nicely...
If 'Doom' was horrible Im not sure what chance any of these types of games have at making the leap to the big screen.
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UltraForum Veteranthis game actually has a good story, though. I guess it could kind of be like Starship Troopers, but this game is actaully much grittier, IMO. Kind of like a Band of Brothers thing...
FiresoleNew Member"Ultra wrote:
this game actually has a good story, though. I guess it could kind of be like Starship Troopers, but this game is actaully much grittier, IMO. Kind of like a Band of Brothers thing...
The hardest thing to do in making these movies is living up to the expectations that the game itself has forced us to have. The game itself already has great graphics and video montages. The game itself tells only a portion of the full story, so basically the writers and producers have to take those things and improve on them.
Take the Mortal Kombat movies for example. Everyone in the world knew the background of the game. Everyone in the world knew the characters and the moves already. But for some ungodly reason the producers didn't improve on that and basically fed us a live action version of the game, which really doesn't support a full length movie. With a good story and some real character development, maybe that movie could have had a chance.
The GOW story is a good story. And the game only tells a fraction of the whole story. So if the movie can actually tell the whole story, and set up the character development so we can get to know these guys a bit more, then this movie could be great. This game has the potential to be created into one of the best movies based on a game ever, but only time will tell to see if these guys can pull it off in a way to satisfy the big gamers.