Gears Turning on Gears of War Movie

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With Epic's Gears of War such an instant success on Xbox 360, and publisher Microsoft undoubtedly looking to extend the brand, it comes as little surprise that Hollywood trade publication Variety reports that a Gears of War movie adaptation is set for production. New Line Studios has acquired the movie rights for the license.

Stuart Beattie, screenwriter on Collateral, Derailed, and the upcoming video game adaptation Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run, prepared a treatment and is slated to write the screenplay. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will producing through their production company Temple Hill. Previously, the pair teamed up to produce last year's The Nativity Story, and is also currently producing the romantic drama Paper Wings. No director has been announced for the project.

Microsoft previously attempted to bring one of its exclusive franchises to the big screen with the much-trumpeted Halo adaptation, at one point set to be directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson's Wingnut Films. Last year, production was put on indefinite hold after the movie's financiers pulling out due to continually increasing budgets.

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    March 20, 2007 1:10 PM

    i hope the story is more gripping than the game's...

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      March 20, 2007 1:52 PM

      Everyone complains that Gears had very little explanation/story but if you looked at the official website + added bits and pieces of the game, you got the gist of it. I bet they could really expand on the Gear story in the movie and make it really awesome. It could even include a small prologue of how things came to be.

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        March 20, 2007 2:04 PM

        There's always much more story around games then what's actually in the game. But in the end I hope to get most of the story by just playing the game and if that's interesting enough I'll read up in booklets, on websites and so on. But the game fails miserably at telling the story, that I'm sure is there, somewhere. Just not told very well through the game.

        I still enjoyed the game for the action and such, so the lack of storytelling didn't really bother me.

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      March 20, 2007 1:54 PM

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