[Foshjedi2004]

New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft and Epic Games' hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War," with Stuart Beattie penning the adaptation and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner.

CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21-page treatment by Beattie, who wrote "Collateral" and the upcoming "3:10 to Yuma" and "30 Days of Night."

Studio's deal is with Epic, the game's developer, which held onto all ancillary rights to the property when Microsoft signed on to publish the game. Though not announced yet, a sequel vidgame is assured. If development of both projects goes smoothly, New Line and Epic would surely love to see the film and a game sequel come out around the same time.


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[Hiromoon]

Should we start running now?

[slornie]

another film based on a game... im still not sure whether this is a good idea...

[Phlakaton-PG]

I wouldnt see it. More fun to play than to watch I'm afraid.

[Gray__Fox]

ya I saw this yesterday.. all I can say is milkage FTW!!!! there really isn't anything movie quality about this game it makes no real good story to draw ppl in not hollywood style at least but hey milk the top seller concept for as long as possible I guess.

[TheDude]

I have no idea what the story is about, so I wouldn't know if this would be a good movie or not. Isn't Peter Jackson head of New Line? Because from what it looks like, Microsoft really likes him as a director/producer, because he is also making the Halo movie.

[Foshjedi2004]

The Halo Movie was Dropped a few months ago.

[TheDude]

What? You can't be serious. Bungie isn't so secretive that they wouldn't tell us of the cancelling of the Halo movie.

[Foshjedi2004]

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Halo_(film)

The film had a target release date of summer 2008, however production was halted due to financing problems in October 2006.

[Xyvik]

While I wouldn't rely on Wiki as a dead-set authority on that matter, for once I sure hope they're right. The story of Halo is pathetic enough without them screwing it up even farther in a Hollywood adaptation.

This post has been edited by Xyvik: 22 March 2007 - 03:32 PM

[(DoV) Tokakeke]

Xyvik, note that all that information is sourced. If you click on the reference section, you'll find where that information comes from.

Laziness for the lose.

[HissingNewt]

Xyvik, on Mar 22 2007, 03:31 PM, said:

While I wouldn't rely on Wiki as a dead-set authority on that matter, for once I sure hope they're right. The story of Halo is pathetic enough without them screwing it up even farther in a Hollywood adaptation.

That's your opinion. There are plenty of people who disagree.

[Ben]

Gears of War has GREAT cinematic possibilities. The game is as the studio EPIC.





I'm well aware that was a bad pun.







Oh, Hissingnewt, you have an INCREDIBLE talent for stating the obvious.

[HissingNewt]

Thank you, Ben.

The game's storyline wasn't very well told on in the game. The characters were somewhat bland, but the game was very fun.

[Big Jack]

Halo's storyline is incredibly cliche', but is very well told. At least, Halo 1's was. Halo 2's was...bizarre, to say the least.

But a GoW movie? Now that's milking it.

[Luga]

Well I wont play the game until it comes to PC so if the movie slaughtered the game, I woudnt really know ^^; I suppose ignorance is bliss at times

[Xyvik]

Halo's story was more than cliched, it was a classic example of unoriginal science fiction retread, and it even stole a few ideas from the far superior Half-Life series. The way it was advanced was also rather pathetically done through the game's mechanics. Library, anyone?

However, I will not disagree that the multiplayer was awesome. I still play it with my brothers.

In total, Halo is one of the better Console FPSs, although Goldeneye64 is still the best. Compare it to PC FPSs, however, and it falls short.

And as for Wiki, don't you ever pay attention to the news, Tok? Wikipedia has been sued no less than six times already this year because people go in and put information that isn't accurate. Just because the information says it is sourced doesn't always mean it is. Sometimes they are accurate, more often than not you need to take what you see on Wiki with a grain of salt and wait for more official sources.

And for the topic, I agree with Phlakaton: It's more fun to play it than to watch it, and there is no way on earth I'd pay to watch a movie about GoW. It didn't even really -have- a story, so what would the movie be about anyway? Another gory no-brainer action flick? We don't need more of those.

This post has been edited by Xyvik: 22 March 2007 - 07:20 PM

[Big Jack]

You know, I think the only game series that could really work as a movie would have to be CnC. I mean, it already has the live action segments, so it wouldn't be too wierd a transition.

And before you say "WELL EA WOULD SCREW IT UP OMG", I honestly don't think they would. I dunno, but for some reason I get the notion that a movie made of CnC couldn't go wrong as easily as most game-to-movie adaptions.

[Waraddict]

Big Jack, on Mar 23 2007, 12:41 AM, said:

You know, I think the only game series that could really work as a movie would have to be CnC. I mean, it already has the live action segments, so it wouldn't be too wierd a transition.

And before you say "WELL EA WOULD SCREW IT UP OMG", I honestly don't think they would. I dunno, but for some reason I get the notion that a movie made of CnC couldn't go wrong as easily as most game-to-movie adaptions.

C&C would only work if they reinterpreted it a bit, for instance, I could imagine a sci-fi series based on Red Alert but with more of a grittiness and realism to it, it would be quite original.

Think WWII + conspiracy technology, an underlying theme that even with the best intentions, terrible things can occur (i.e. Einstein's fiddling with history), and of course, the enigma of where the hell this new reality will eventually end up in the future, I mean coming from a non-C&C view, how the hell could they see something like Tiberium turning up in a few decades time just because of the Hitler assassination? Personally I would like it to mainly take a 'band of brothers' approach and not focus on a unrealistic one man army character, but not so much that it looks like a blatant attempt to add sci-fi to Band of Brothers, side stories can cover the leaders on both sides and the people pulling the strings in the background (i.e. Kane, who HAS to be Joe Kucan).

The best part is, unlike most sci-fi series, there is a decent framework for the progression of it over time, i.e. TD and TS which both have their own unique themes (I would recommend wiping out RA2 altogether).

This post has been edited by Waraddict: 22 March 2007 - 08:17 PM

[Commander Loony]

Christ's sakes...why are they wasting their time making movies that had a shuddy storyline? Why cant they make movies about the awesome story driven games. Like StarCraft. Starcraft's story was top-notch and unique. But noooooooo dumbass hollywood goons have to be idiots and make crap movies like Doom and...Tomb Raider. And several other games-to-movies movies I cant remember.

So come on you fiends, turn Starcraft into a friggin movie. Hell, make it a saga like Star wars where each race's 'episode' was one movie in itself. Like the first episode would be from the Terran's perspective, the next would be from the Zerg, then the Protoss, then the 4th would be the Protoss again, then the Terrans as the 5th episode, and finally, the last movie episode would have Sarah Kerrigan's conquest over everything and then a climactic 'To be continued' thing. (As to follow what Starctaft and Brood War's story order)