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Gears of War film shoots for Summer 2010 release

by Ross Miller on Mar 31st 2008 12:15PM

Gears of War film producer Wyck Godfrey has told Coming Soon that the production company is shooting for a Summer 2010 release of the video game adaptation. Said Godfrey: "We've got our script on and a director we're about to attach. We'll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010."

The script was written by Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Pirates of the Caribbean), who recently said in an interview that the production will likely be heavy on green screen usage, à la 300. The Gears of War film will be released by New Line Cinema, with CliffyB as executive producer. You should probably get in line now, you've only got 24 to 27 months before this Romantic Comedy of 2010 marches into theaters.

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Tags: adaptation, epic, epic-games, film, film-adaptation, gears-of-war, new-line, new-line-cinema, stuart-beattie, wyck-godfrey, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (36)

Will Marcus say "nice" everytime he reloads in the movie as well?

I hope that the inevitable sequel is called Gears of Wars 2: Gearsier

"Gearsier"

I lol'd +1

xFenixKnightx,

I was also thinking 2Gears2War: Locust Drift, but Gearsier just sounded a lot more manly.

LOL @ Locust Drift

They should change Marcus to look like a metrosexual Asian stereotype too.

Show of hands, whos going to watch this?

I will. I genuinely think Gear of War could make a good movie. I mean, it's a an action game with cool monsters. It's perfect for that summer explosion-full kind of flick, you know?

Me, and with it releasing in 2010 I won't have to blag my way in =)

Me as well. Right around the time I get back from my mission too. Just really hope it's good and the green screening will turn out good, unlike the mentioned 300. Most overrated movie ever. Hope the green screening will turn out more like Sin City did. Now that was an awesome movie.

IMO this movie can only work well if they do it all in CGI or mocap CG ala Beowulf. Other than that its probably destined for suckiness. Doom was garbage, and I like the Rock =( Smell what Im cookin'? No? Anyone?

CGI with the original peeps who did the games voicework of course. John DiMaggio for Marcus, Mighty Rasta for The cole train, etc.

"Look at all that juice"

Why not? I sat through DOOM with the fucking Rock.

I will, and I don't even like GoW the game.

@mrblonde
wasnt sin city made by the same people who made 300?

Yes, and both were excellent.

I would rather watch a Rainbow six movie, that book was amazing.

I would get this on DVD though.

Hmm, I wonder if Gears 3 will magically pop up around that time then?

That picture is chock full of WIN!

At least they got a decent screenwriter. That's a step in the right direction already. Hopefully they bag a decent director as well.

May the Cole Train be played by the original

Nah, I'd rather have......MR. T!

"I pity da fool that chainsaws my face."

Sorry Joystiq you really screwed up. It is only March 31st, April Fool's day isn't until tomorrow.

What is weird though is that by 2010 movie tickets will probably cost as much as games.

But by 2010, games will cost as much as consoles!

By 2010 Duke Nukem Forever will be out. So will Starcraft 2

I haven't played this game, but I always got the impression Gears was like Doom 3: graphically impressive but pretty vacuous. Can you really scrape an interesting story out of men with guns/chainsaws fighting aliens/demons? - or whatever it is the enemy is in Gears.

I have a feeling this might turn out like the Doom movie. Not very interesting.

The Cole Train will save the movie.... I hope....

"Can you really scrape an interesting story out of men with guns/chainsaws fighting aliens/demons? - or whatever it is the enemy is in Gears."

No, they couldn't even do that with the game. There's no hope of a decent story for the movie.

But..........CHAINSAWS?!?!?!

I think you can. The game definitely shows the history that Marcus has, and that even some of the secrets about the aliens was found at his father's estate. I haven't played the story mode in a while, but I do remember there being enough there to write a good story about. Plus the characters are actually likeable. Now if they go the live action route, they need to find a charismatic former NFL star that can act to play Cole Train. That'd just really make his role more believable.

tmac has never seen "aliens"

Fire up your favorite torrent downloader, Christmas 2010.

Now THATS HOT!

Its getting my money no matter what...

If this is an April Fools joke I am going to go on a rampage like has not been seen since the Goldeneye XBLA fiasco.

No thanks, I'll pass on this one

As anxious as I am for the movie, I'm probably going to protest it if they can't find some way to put Bender's voice into the head of whoever's playing Marcus.

this movie is going to have to release with gears of war 3 since development time on gow2 was only about two years.

They should get Terry Crews to play Cole Train

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