Jun 17 2008'Gears of War' Movie Gets Director, Chance of Being Marginally Better Than 'Doom'
Hey, do you like something in one medium? Would you like to see a worse version of it in another medium? Good news! That will inevitably happen! The latest victim of this unfortunate reality? Gears of War--a third-person shooting game I understand to be pretty great--which will soon be turned into a movie directed by the man who made Live Free or Die Hard surprisingly entertaining for also being incredibly stupid, Len Wiseman. From the Hollywood Reporter:
New Line is putting "Gears of War" in motion, setting Len Wiseman to direct the video game adaptation being produced by Temple Hill's Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.Chris Morgan, who wrote the upcoming Universal tentpoles "Wanted" and "The Fast and the Furious 4," has been hired to write the screenplay. Wiseman and Morgan will develop the story treatment.
Well, as long as the writer of Fast and the Furious 4: 4aster 4 4uriouser is on the job, I don't think any fans of Gears of War need to worry. I'm certain the plot that "thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde" will be treated with the subdued dignity it deserves.
Reader Comments
1. VeronikaQ - June 17, 2008 5:03 PM
I'm fine as long as nobody tries to make a movie out of GTA :-)
2. Julian - June 18, 2008 8:54 AM
@1
You can hope they don't make one all you want, but you know its coming. I've been dreading the new Street Fighter movie. I don't need to see an Asian chick do high kicks for two hours. Thanks to the the internets and my yellow fever, I have fallen off the wagon with my chronic masturbatory condition. . . it's starting to look and fee like a bright red play-doh snake.
3. Dan - June 18, 2008 9:55 AM
Meh..... GOW is allright! i gues it won't hurt much when they totally ruin the heck out of it by making a movie out of it, they'll prob drastically change how the caracter/locust horde guys look, making for some srious dissapointment!!!!! yes!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHA! don't you know???? Hollywood's main purpose is to shit on stuff!!!!!!
4. Dude. - June 18, 2008 2:08 PM
this will suck...
5. mac - June 18, 2008 4:13 PM
Maybe I'm an optimist, but I really can't see(or fathom how you could) screw this up. It's not a complicated story. Just remake the cutscenes from the game with real people, and add in some face-exploding action scenes and you have yourself a decent popcorn flick.
Don't make the Locust some government experiment gone wrong, or other asinine idea they have rattling around. Keep it on Sera and don't change it to Earth by adding in familiar landmarks.
And if Cole is not played by Lester Speight a.k.a. Terry "The Office Linebacker" Tate a.k.a The T-Train a.k.a Triple T, then this is automatic failure.
6. greece - June 18, 2008 9:42 PM
Who cares? I don't have much expect on this film. We ever discussed this topics from the blog on horsematch.com. If you have different ideas, you may check it to see how it goes.
7. Lal - June 19, 2008 11:18 AM
I might watch it if the entire soundtrack is Megadeth.