What’s Happening With The Gears Of War Movie?
Feb 3, 2009 by Rob KeyesHere’s the latest on the development of the video game-based Gears of War movie.
These movies have the potential to be incredibly amazing if they follow the games properly, have a proper cast and keep them rated R. On the flip side of the coin, it could be a massively frustrating disappointment – the way most video game-based movies tend to be.
I really don’t want them to turn this into something it’s not and have them adding more characters, more love interests and unnecessary dialogue. Please Mr. Wiseman, just make the movies like the games.
The problem with all of these video game movies is that they never seem to actually follow what made the game so successful… and it’s such a simple concept. And while not making these movies properly, they tend to make them even worse with poor writing and casting choices.
So far, there has been little information other than that, so it’s hard to make predictions based solely on what Wiseman has said so far. As far as a release date, the highly unconfirmed information we have is it is supposed to reach theaters some time in 2010. You should take that information with a big grain of salt since the project is still in the screenwriting stage.
We’ll keep you updated as more information comes out in the future.
What do you think of the Gears of War movie plan that Len Wiseman is proposing?
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This one will have to win me over.
There has never been a good movie based on a video game
I hope Gears Of War is the exception to the rule.
I am Skeptical as far as how good this film will be…
Rob you played the game???
as far a quality of gameplay this game ruled as far as story telling it was kind of a dud…
Having played both editions of Gears, I would have to say that the only way to do this properly is for Wiseman to always have Predator and Aliens on set and make it a testosterone filled adventure with the GAME story, not a rehashing of the story like how the Doom movie portrayed! It is simple enough for a 120 minute picture with one or few turns.
However, if I were producing this then I would choose Paul Verhoeven for this project than Wiseman. Paul is perfect for this type of project and competent enough to deliver the goods! And, he can make a smart action-filled picture.
As for actors, they have to get bodybuilders or wrestlers or guys that are jacked! Needing ‘dramatic’ actors for this movie is just wrong. Please, go back to the 80s and get some testosterone in this picture! Imagine Ronnie Coleman as Coletrain (Damn!), Ron Kiskinger, hell, even WWE wrestlers Dave Bautista & John Cena!
Big Guns, Big Explosions, Big Action, Epic! Simple but effective!
S’funny…
I recently picked up an Xbox and got the original Gears of War game. It looks really cool, but I guess I’m not much of a gamer cuz I can’t even get out of the prison yard without getting myself and the other guy blown to the bejeezus belt and back!
On the other hand, I also picked up “Dead Space”. Very scary and really great gameplay IMHO.
Any Gears of War vets out there want to offer advice in not getting fragged? Suggestions gratefully accepted!
Now back to our scheduled programming…
After seeing Underworld 3, and mostly loving it, I have one piece of advice for Mr. Wiseman …
Move the freakin’ camera back so we can see what the h*ll is going on.
That was my only problem with U3. The fighting was filmed too close in and too quickly edited. Other than that it was tré cool.
Sorry, that should be Roland Kickinger, not Ron Kiskinger. He is played Arnold in his Mr. Olympia days and I think the body double for Arnold’s T800 model in T4.
@INK, really they put the camera in close? Ah-man, not that stupid Bourne-editing!
@ No Name Face,
Yeap I have both, beat them both and still play the second with some buddies (system link 4-player horde mode).
I think the story is fine and in the sequel it really picks up.
The important part is that it’s 4 (sometimes less, sometimes a little more) guys entrenched in something bigger then them and it’s more of an experience and a ride – The movie must follow that to be great.
They can start the story just like the game did and hit all the main plot points we see throughout the games.
The games set up a real detailed and believable world and a great enemy. When Wiseman talks “sci-fi” instead of “creatures”, that’s a big problem.
nice article and since you did a gears of war movie article then you should do a halo movie article
I am not a gamer at all and I don’t think I have seen a good videogame-to-film adaptation yet..
Can anybody name one…just one…
Please, i want Halo news
Doesnt there have to BE Halo news before it can be reported here?
yes, thats why i want to know if there is any. What better way to be informed than by having a reporter report it
I feel your pain folks. Unfortunately, there’s not been much news on several of the major game-movies that I’m hoping will break the videogame-based-movies-always-suck trend.
If you’re interested, Bruce did a nice piece of where the Halo film stands:
http://screenrant.com/halo-fall-of-reach-movie-brusimm-3924/
And one of my first articles for Screen Rant back in September was for Mass Effect:
http://screenrant.com/avi-arad-mass-effect-movie-rob-3747/
I guess we didn’t cover it, but I was going to do a post a while back about the Lost Planet movie which some producers were discussing not long ago – they were talking a big budget for that one.
This smells bad. I hope the Prince of Persia film will be good.
Wow… the fact that Wiseman can mouth off statements like that only shows how shallow he’s gonna keep the film a basis on. The only game-based film that was watchable I would say is “resident evil” and only the first one… Wiseman should really check on how DOOM was such a let down and horrible adaptation. There’s always potential for every adaptation… let’s hope Wiseman really taps into it and achieve what other directors have failed so far…
games are my life. cant live without them
Rob, I agree with your point! Even though Phoenix is the central figure, it really is about the four main guys put in this big adventure!
The other thing about this project is, just because the game is set in the future, does not mean it has to be sci-fi! Except for a few elements, Gears is far away from scifi, it is more a war picture than anything. Maybe, Wiseman should put his interests in reviving the Halo project if he wants to play around with science-fiction.
I’ll be very surprised if they don’t mess this up.
“nowhereman” what difficulty are you playing on?
Start off on an easier difficulty and work your way up. That first part should just be a training. Duck for cover.
Well with Cliff Bleszinski(Design Director of Epic Games) as a Executive Producer/Consultant, Wisemen shouldn’t mess it up too bad.
as Nick says,
If you’re finding you’re taking too many shots play more conservative until you you get more confidence as a killing machine
Stay back behind cover clearing out as many closer or imminent threats then move up – wash and repeat.
Once you get use to it and get past the big learning curve, you’ll be able to go anywhere and take out multiple guys in more risky situations with ease.
I cant think of one game to movie adaption that was watchable so Im hopeing this one will be the pearl among them. If not make Halo that pearl. Right off the bat though I dont like where he is going with this.
If this one tanks…we’ll still have HALF-LIFE… and if that tanks too, well ya might as well make a pong movie… cuz I’ll give up on VG movies…………
Screw Halo and screw Gears of War, what about a Half Life 2 movie??
Sorry, PC gamer here, don’t have enough money to buy another gaming rig with limited graphics, so I just play games on the PC I already have.
@ greenknight333
I like SOME games, but I’m FAR from being a gamer myself.
Thus far I can say that almost ALL attempts of trying to get a game to the screen failed miserably. Despite the rich material the source provided.
Anyway, there ARE exeptions:
“Silent Hill” was MUCH like the game and succeeded in bringing the same mood across.
“Resident Evil” was not half as bad as it deserved to be.
I have yet to see “Max Payne”. The trailers look good and faithful.
But I fell for that before … > “Hitman” (a friggin WASTE!)
I do have some faith in “Prince Of Persia” though.
My wife’s fave game and with Donnie Darko in the main role, it could turn out pretty decent.
Max Payne was nothing like actually playing the video game.
It wasn’t a horrible watch… it just didn’t do the game justice at all
No bullet time combat at all
there was one good game-movie i can think of which was silent hill, captued the game brilliantly and most of all the atmosphere of the game. i hope gears movie will be the same, the stoy is spot on already and u get a real sense of desperation in the game, for the movie to work it needs to capture the atmosphere and get u reli hating the locust, intense fight scenes and beefy huge actors for the main roles wiv sum dark comedy in there and itll be a winer, infact i need to F***k UP SUM LOCUST NOW, GOD DAM I HATE THEM B*STAR*DS ARGHHHHH BRING ITT!!!!!!!!!!
I wanna see the gears movie depending on the cast.. Cause if they bring in some Peon cast no one has heard of it’s gonna tank… You need well experienced actors and actresses to take on a role of a major game
They’re probably working on the bump-mapping as ahead of time since according to the game, every surface, even smooth ones, are bump mapped, lmao!