Comments on: What’s Happening With The Gears Of War Movie?

By: ‘Gears of Wars’ Movie Has Budget Cut, Loses Director? - Screen Rant

‘Gears of Wars’ Movie Has Budget Cut, Loses Director? - Screen Rant — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:45:16 +0000

[...] of Wars hasn’t exactly had a smooth road to the big screen. Underworld director Len Wiseman was tapped to direct Gears of War, after co-writing the script with Wanted’s Chris Morgan. Then we learned that screenwriter [...]

By: Story of Gears of War Movie Not Following Games? - Screen Rant

Story of Gears of War Movie Not Following Games? - Screen Rant — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:48 +0000

[...] back in February Screen Rant reported that Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) would be directing the Gears of War feature film and co-writing the screenplay alongside Chris Morgan (Wanted, Fast & [...]

By: The Story For Gears of War Movie | Game Rant

The Story For Gears of War Movie | Game Rant — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:59:41 +0000

[...] back in February Screen Rant reported that Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) would directing the Gears of War feature film and co-writing the screenplay alongside Chris Morgan (Wanted, Fast & [...]

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:41:04 +0000

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!

By: SilentOne

SilentOne — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:00:38 +0000

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

By: jordan

jordan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:13:28 +0000

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!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:10:26 +0000

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

By: David Hasselbach

David Hasselbach — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:24:02 +0000

@ 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.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:36:34 +0000

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.

By: Dannyboy

Dannyboy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:53:28 +0000

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…………

By: Jess H.

Jess H. — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:12:45 +0000

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.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:22:39 +0000

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.

By: bigDOG

bigDOG — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:01:27 +0000

Well with Cliff Bleszinski(Design Director of Epic Games) as a Executive Producer/Consultant, Wisemen shouldn’t mess it up too bad.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:27:51 +0000

“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.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:24:34 +0000

I’ll be very surprised if they don’t mess this up.

By: SK47

SK47 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:29:06 +0000

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.

By: addictive games

addictive games — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:01:06 +0000

games are my life. cant live without them

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:06:26 +0000

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…

By: HuggyBear

HuggyBear — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:06:54 +0000

This smells bad. I hope the Prince of Persia film will be good.

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:19:51 +0000

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.