Legendary Pictures Shifting Gears of War

July 24th, 2008

34 Comments

Legendary Pictures has come on board to co-finance and co-produce Gears of War, a project based on Microsoft and Epic Games' hit videogame.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Len Wiseman is directing with Chris Morgan writing the script. The first draft was penned by Stuart Beattie.

Gears of War centers on a world beset by aliens known as the Locust and a team of soldiers fighting to retake the planet. The violent action title is Microsoft's second best selling videogame franchise, behind Halo. A sequel is coming out in November.

New Line had initially aimed for a summer 2009 release for the picture, but Warner has not yet dated Gears of War.

34 Comments & Responses

radimus-83

August 6th, 2008 9:25am

fuck off Travis.... we're talking about DOOM here! lol

Agent VIS

August 4th, 2008 12:52pm

I still want more bioshock news...:(

ed_wood

August 4th, 2008 12:04pm

I justed watched Doom again and its not bad. I'm not a big Karl Urban fan though, except for Pathfinder.

radimus-83

August 4th, 2008 11:19am

i really liked Urban in it, which is kinda surprising cause i'm not fussed on most of his movies. and the Rock, well... he's the man!!

Chad_Vital

August 2nd, 2008 6:39pm

But yeah I did like Doom, if Karl Urban and The Rock weren't in it, the movie would have sucked major ass lol. I just didn't like how they changed the story of the creatures/demons.

radimus-83

July 31st, 2008 1:20pm

i know, your right! they did fuck about with it too much. but they did that so they could open it up to a movie audience rather than just us sci-fi/gamer freaks! lol

i still loved the movie though, i just wish they had a sequel to make up for their mistakes from the first!

Chad_Vital

July 30th, 2008 9:14pm

Yeah but Doom's plot got raped when they made a movie. Poor thing. They changed the coolest part about Doom. That's like changing the Halo's Covenant or Gears of Wars' Locusts into machines or like they did with Doom...super soldiers...wtf!? lol

radimus-83

July 28th, 2008 2:55pm

ahh jeez!!!

Chad, The Kwisatz.... picking between the two would be like picking between my kids! (don't have any kids, you know what i mean)

but since we're talking cool video games.. DOOM3 gets a fuck yeah from me!!

The Kwisatz Haderach

July 28th, 2008 6:43am

I agree Chad Vital, Gears rocks over Halo any day

They call me ITCHY BALLS

July 27th, 2008 7:23am

Blah blah blah....this is boring news.

Chad_Vital

July 27th, 2008 5:14am

They can pretty much have any bad ass play Marcus with a deep voice. The other characters however, need to be dead on. That includes Dom, Baird, Cole, and even the Locusts.

Chad_Vital

July 26th, 2008 6:13pm

No offense guys but Gears of War destroys Halo. Hands down. It's realistic, violent, better characters, better enemies, better plot, better weapons, better evironments, better dialogue, etc. Halo is the kiddy dumbed down version of Gears of War lol. Gears will pwn Halo any day.

radimus-83

July 26th, 2008 7:25am

the reason Halo is still tied up, is because the assholes behind it can't come to any sort of agreement!

The Fallen

July 25th, 2008 6:21pm

Sweet!
Still want Halo more. No offense. But Bungie is missing out. Probably after this is a success the a-holes will get their stuff together and make Halo.

SLIM

July 25th, 2008 5:26pm

They were planning to make Master Chief a supporting character. But Halo should go into production like now. Halo is the first original XBOX game... even though Microsoft created both Halo and G.O.W. we just have to wait.

radimus-83

July 25th, 2008 2:56pm

brilliant!!...... recently got back into playing the game and forgot just how fucking great it is! (stuck on the last level though :(

now i wonder who'll they put in the roles of the characters. Chris Evans anyone?

cmanptown02

July 25th, 2008 1:33pm

Ok...so they can finance "Gears of War" but not HALO?!?! Don't get me wrong Gears is going to kick ass on film. But the Godfather of the XBOX is stuck in a rut?

Shadow Of The Day

July 25th, 2008 1:03pm

Awesome.

Saquin Turok 'X'

July 25th, 2008 11:28am

Same here Frenzy. Yes, once again, the already mega-rich arseholes squabble over what's pocket money for them, and the fan looses out. Still. I'm just pleased that this is coming out.

Frenzy2001

July 25th, 2008 10:47am

Gears of War is a very good game and could make a decent movie, but I'm still pissed that this movie is being moved on, and Halo is on a shelf somewhere because some corporate assholes can't agree on who gets the biggest cut of the several million dollars they would make.

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