Sci-Fi Gears of War: The movie (In the works!)

[Dedpool]

this movie just like the game will have a lot of hype and turn out to be a failure.

...

Say no to drugs.

 

[Untilteld]

what happened to the Halo movie?

 

[Joker's Lackey]

Love the game, hope the movie doesn't suck, and a lot of you should wait until a trailer or some footage to judge this movie. Yes most game to film adaption suck, but there is a chance, no matter how slim it may be to you, there is a chance that this can be the one that will be good.
My Ideal cast.

Fenix - Dominic Purcell

DOM - Kevin Alejandro

Cole Train - Franklin Roberto (Bobby) Lashley

Baird - David Wenham

Victor Hoffman - Micheal Ironside
Anya Stroud - Rachael Taylor

General Raam - Voice over - Hugo Weaving

 

[lollycop]

This movie is gonna kick A$$

 

[CrAzYMoFo]

Ronnie Coleman for Cole Train, and yes I'm scared too.

 

[Dedpool]

Ronnie Coleman for Cole Train, and yes I'm scared too.

Holy crap. What a faithful rendition. lol

 

[Elisha Cuthbert]

If Gerald Butler gets the title role I'm going to cry myself to sleep.

 

[Darth Elektra]

what happened to the Halo movie?

The film was delayed because of the production cost. Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp are still pushing for the film.

Hopefully Halo 3 will get some Exec's to start thinking of the money they can make.

 

[Spidey Lover 10]

Wow New Line is getting quite aggresive with the futurisitic war/action films. First Escape from NY and now this. 300 has quite a bit to do with this. Good. Stuart Beattie who just finished Punisher 2 script is doing this. He's busy as all hell. Here's a few links to the story:



I can see a bunch of ex-football players and pro-wrestlers trying to get in on this one. LOL

Who should direct this? Who should be the stars???

They got the screenwriter for Black Hawk Down on board Escape from NY...maybe they should find the director of that film for this one. I could totally see Vin Diesel playing one of the characters in this film. Michael Clark Duncan too.

just 2 ask, WHY is it called GEARS of War? i don't get it!

 

[Sebastos]

just 2 ask, WHY is it called GEARS of War? i don't get it!

....Cause that's the name of the video game.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Gears Of War Scoop
Stu Beattie finally delivered the draft of GEARS OF WAR.

116 pages dated 7-31-07.

It totally rocks! I rate it an A-

As always, Stu Beattie delivers like he did with Splinter Cell and Without Remorse. The script like the beat sheet described earlier is balls to the wall hard core action and mayhem.

I was going to do a script review but we would be repeating what we already revealed when we first looked at the beat sheet or treatment of the film which you can check out here:
http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1890

There you find all the details for the first half of the script. The script is basically a prequel to the game. It's the origin of Emergence Day and ends when Marcus Fenix is locked up for four years. I never played the game, I am holding out for when it comes out for Windows so that I can play in all it's Direct X 10 glory on my Geforce 8800 ultra this holiday season.

The beats are primarily the same, some minor changes and adjustments but I think the script rocks.

The other scoop is that sources tell me that not only does New Line like Len Wiseman for Gears Of War but the script is out to four other directors.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Gears of War film script good

It appears that the film script, or at least the current incarnation from Stuart Beattie, for the videogame adaptation Gears of War is actually rather good.
What's more though is the rumour that New Line is not only really keen for Len Wisemen for Director, but that they've only got the script out to four other other Directors. So with the current success of Die Hard 4.0 (Filmstalker review), it would seem that Len Wiseman is running high on the list.
Over at Latino Review they've rated it with an A- and said that it does follow the previous treatment rather closely.
It tells of the final moments of the battle of Aspho Fields, the last of the Pendulum Wars, and the dawning realisation that humans are not alone on the planet. Basically a prequel to the events in the game.
Could this be one of the better adaptations? Perhaps a film to rival Halo before it has even been released, never mind developed.

Sounds good.

 

[Spidey Lover 10]

....Cause that's the name of the video game.

i MEANT the game's name, not the movie. why is the GAME called GEARS of WAR? IT HAS NOTHING 2 DO WITH ROBOTS OR MACHINERY!!! guess the name "Resistance: Fall of Man" was ALREADY taken by a certain competitior....lol

 

[Sebastos]

Gears Of War Scoop
Stu Beattie finally delivered the draft of GEARS OF WAR.

116 pages dated 7-31-07.

It totally rocks! I rate it an A-

As always, Stu Beattie delivers like he did with Splinter Cell and Without Remorse. The script like the beat sheet described earlier is balls to the wall hard core action and mayhem.

I was going to do a script review but we would be repeating what we already revealed when we first looked at the beat sheet or treatment of the film which you can check out here:
http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1890

There you find all the details for the first half of the script. The script is basically a prequel to the game. It's the origin of Emergence Day and ends when Marcus Fenix is locked up for four years. I never played the game, I am holding out for when it comes out for Windows so that I can play in all it's Direct X 10 glory on my Geforce 8800 ultra this holiday season.

The beats are primarily the same, some minor changes and adjustments but I think the script rocks.

The other scoop is that sources tell me that not only does New Line like Len Wiseman for Gears Of War but the script is out to four other directors.

Sounds awesome.

i MEANT the game's name, not the movie. why is the GAME called GEARS of WAR? IT HAS NOTHING 2 DO WITH ROBOTS OR MACHINERY!!! guess the name "Resistance: Fall of Man" was ALREADY taken by a certain competitior....lol

Ah, my mistake.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Gears of War = Men are the Gears that make the war machine work, in this instance Phenix and his team.....at least that was my understanding of the title.

 

[Drizzle]

Baird - David Wenham

Wenham's too much of a badass to play Baird. Baird is the wussiest of the COGs. Wenham deserves better than that.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3041&Itemid=99

Another script review.

 

[Darth Elektra]

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3041&Itemid=99

Another script review.

Sweet.

 

[Advanced Dark]

This is gonna be fun. I hope these new 3d projectors are good. If they can master that tecnology movies are gonna get alot more fun. It still sucks now.

 

[Advanced Dark]

http://hw-team.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D1FEFF00177EA2BE!10956.entry

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'd say Wiseman was smart to go for EFNY and DH5 instead of this.

 

[Advanced Dark]

http://www.beyondunreal.com/daedalus/singlepost.php?id=11038

Gears Of War Movie Script Writer Speaks

by hal (Gears of War) 4 Comments / Permalink
Stuart Beattie, the writer tapped for the Gears of War movie script, is perhaps best known for his treatment of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean. GamePro talks to him about the Gears movie as well as Hollywood's cautious interest in movies based upon games.

Gamers wondering what a Gears of War movie might look like need only to rent Warner Bros.' Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD of 300. Many film critics called that international blockbuster a movie that looked like a videogame. Now there might be a game that looks like a game on the big screen.

"To me, that's a good movie because that's a movie that is getting people talking about, reading into it," said Beattie. "It's interesting. Everyone's talking about 300. They use it as an example of where things are headed. That film was shot completely on green screen, which is amazing when you actually see the film. It's probably how we're going to do Gears of War."​

 

[Advanced Dark]

http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=4923

Beattie is still developing the script and project is not dead. Cool.

 

[Sebastos]

Good to know.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21257

12 October 2007

Gears Of War To Be 'All 300-y'
Green screen plans for game adap
Source: Gamepro

Speaking to Gamepro, Stuart Beattie, script writer of the upcoming Gears of War movie, said that we can expect something similar to 300 in terms of look. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen of that persuasion, that doesn't mean lots of leather Y-fronts and oily pecs. It means it's going to have the backgrounds put in later.

"That film was shot completely on green screen, which is amazing when you actually see the film," said Beattie. "It's probably how we're going to do Gears of War".

This would make a lot of sense, since Gears of War, the story of a planet plagued by aliens and the army grunts trying to stop them, is awash with creatures and ravaged environments. So it would likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars to do traditionally.

"There's no way to build that world any other way, really," Beattie continued. "That's a huge world. It's a planet and it's a bubble and it's a building. It's an epic sci-fi war and an enormous film. To get it made at all, the only way to make it for a price is to be on a soundstage. But the game also has that look, which is really interesting, so I think it will dovetail really nicely."

Video games are generally not to be anticipated with anything other than vague dread, but this sounds like it might be the exception.
Olly Richards