Gears of War movie coming to the big screen
March 31st, 2008 |
A Gears of War movie is in the works, based on the blockbuster Xbox 360 game from Epic Games. The film’s producers are aiming for a release in two years’ time.
The rights to the film are owned by New Line Cinema, while Temple Hill Entertainment are producing the film. Wyck Godfrey, a producer at Temple Hill, told Comingsoon.net that the script has been written and they’re finalizing the director now. “We’ll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010.”
The script for Gears of War is being written by Stuart Beattie, who also wrote 30 Days of Night and the first Pirates of the Carribean film. Cliff Bleszinski, who designed the game at Epic, will oversee the project as executive producer. Reportedly, the film will be highly stylized, not unlike the 2007 adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300.
Naturally, the concept of films based on video games makes me a little nervous. This has the potential to be really cool, or really awful. Lets hope for the former.
