Gears of War art director makes an Unreal movie pitch
by Griffin McElroy 
on Jun 13th 2010 5:30PM
Epic Games' Jerry O'Flaherty, art director for the original
Gears of War title and
once-reported director of the upcoming
Thundercats film reboot, recently put together
a unique pitch for a film tentatively titled
Samurai. Well, okay, the film itself doesn't look too terribly unique (it's like
300, but with more
wakizashi), but the fact that almost all of its backgrounds and special effects were created using the Unreal Engine sets it apart from most modern cinematic projects.
O'Flaherty explains in the pitch's description that it was created "with the intent of sharing all of the environment assets ... between the movie and the game." Seeing as how the pitch was shot with zero budget in two days, this simple proof of concept (posted after the jump) could lead to an even greater influx of cost-efficient video game-to-short film adaptations. Hey, don't give us that look! Those can be
pretty good on occasion.
