Report: New Line grabs Gears movie rights

[wraggster]

With games being a prime target of film studio execs for source material, it was only a matter of time before Epic Games' Xbox 360 hit Gears of War began its walk down the road to becoming a movie.


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Variety is reporting today that New Line Cinema has acquired the movie rights to Gears of War. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey will produce the film, which is being written by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Collateral). No more details of the movie have been released, including crew and release date.

Gears of War, published by Microsoft Game Studios, has won several Game of the Year awards since its release last November. As of mid-January, the game had sold more than 3 million units worldwide.

The next task for the film is to actually get made. Several high-profile movies based on games are still in limbo but slowly moving forward, with Sony working on bringing Metal Gear Solid to the big screen, Jerry Bruckheimer bringing his brand of action to Prince of Persia, and Warner Bros. affiliate Legendary Pictures working on a World of Warcraft movie. Others, such as the big-budget endeavor to bring Halo to the cineplex, have stalled completely.

Microsoft was unavailable for comment as of press time.

via gamespot

[Xiofire]

No! Not a movie, already! Bloody hell, the movie business is so annoying. Just 'cus its a great game doesnt mean it will be a great movie.
-Xiofire

[wolfpack]

hmm... movie producers do seem to kill the movies when its made from a game because they have no idea what the game is really about and they throw in their own elements to screw it up even more... for example: remember what happend to Doom? yea thats right, one decision they made on there, they might make on here *shudders*

[BrooksyX]

I think this good be a huge hit or a really bad flop, I guess we will have to wait and see.

[benn]

well atleast we know the game of the movie will be good lol - unlike normally when they make a game of the movie and its $#@!e!