Gears of War is one of the biggest releases in XBox 360’s recent lineup. This is one of the few games that were released in conjunction with the Playstation3 and Wii consoles to drive people to buy an XBox 360 instead. And it has been an overwhelming success. But is it a movie? New Line hopes so.
Variety is reporting that New Line Cinema snagged the feature rights to Gears of War and that Stuart Beattie will be writing the script with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing.
The rights went up for auction with a 21-page treatment by Beattie, best known for his script work on Collateral and Derailed.
As with most new titles, Gears of War offers a stunning visual game with plenty of impressive and downright scary opposition. And these are all it takes for a video game to make that leap from game to movie. That and a rabid fan base.
I hesitate to even feign interest in this movie since it is based on a video game, but I still hold out hope that one day a video game movie will come along and impress me enough to change my mind on the subject. If this does get produced, and they stick to the materials in the game it wont just be another movie with the game popularity driving an unrelated story.
No word on a cast or production schedule as of yet.
