Gears film future uncertain News

Can't see this being nearly as good as 300.

Dont ruin gears of war for me pleased, played it through once, loved it dont ruin it... actually i just dont think im gona bother watching it if it comes out.

Unless they invent a whole lot of plot that was missing from the game

Was there a story in Gears??? I obviously wasn't paying attention when I played it... thought it was just a generic Man vs Underground mutants thing...

I do not really want a Gears movie. Seriously. Great game.. probably crap movie.

All they need is some muscular men, baby lotion and a few joey's.

I heard they are concerned about the cost of conveying 'host advantage' through the medium of cinema.

"It also heard that Len Wiseman of Die Hard 4.0 fame would be leaving his directorial post and be replaced by Brett Ratner, responsible for X-Men 3: The Last Stand."

I think you'll find that Wiseman left the Escape From New York remake to have more focus on the Gears of War film. Brett Ratner took over from him for the Escape From New York remake, not GOW. The End.

Hello sorry, Len Wiseman is still directing for now - I made a cockup writing the story.

Either way neither will be any good or should be made under any circumstances.

I agree, they'll both suck giant monkey balls.... and not in a good way.

Escape from new york, great film, and perhaps the first appearance of Solid Snake ;-)

"I agree, they'll both suck giant monkey balls.... and not in a good way."

Its possible to suck giant monkey balls in a good way? 0_0

I see Gears of War turning out as "good" as that awful Doom movie, mainly because the game doesn't have a great story anyway (in fact, I'm not even sure it had one!); it's cliched, illogical and unoriginal, and the characters aren't particularly interesting or endearing. Had the game had a rich, detailed story and intriguing, memorable characters then I'd have been more excited about it but I just can't help thinking this will be a huge disappointment when it comes out. Gears of War is all brawn and no brains and they don't make for entertaining movies, just watch Doom for proof.

The trouble with game-licensed movies (wooh, that's sounds odd when you read it), is that they only really appeal to people who played the game and no-one else. They're also usually crap so as soon as people cotton on to the fact that it's based on a video game, they do their utmost to avoid it assuming it must be crap!

Well you name me ONE good movie-of-a-game then... Silent Hill was decent-ish (and confusing!) but other than that they've all been complete poop!

SMB - The Movie...

;)

@Darren
Resident Evil? 1, at least; and 3 (Apocalypse) is supposed to be pretty decent.

Apart from that, I agree ;)

Doom wasn't the worst though; what about Street Fighter?

I won't hear a bad word said about Street Fighter. That's one of the funniest films ever made.

"Electromagnetism... now it levitates... MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

Ab. So. Lute. Nuts.

Same thing that happend to the Halo movie then. Guess as the movie studio dont own the rights to the IP when it comes to merchendise they dont make any money from the lucrative toy market and the McDom burgers and so a big budget means it has to do very well at the box office which is a huge gamble. Maybe MS should dig into their deep pockets and take on Sony at making movies as well

Postal actually looks pretty funny, and I heard good things from someone who saw a preview.

Hard to believe it tho.

I think this could turn out pretty good, with a nice big budget, and Wiseman attached, script wise it'll be no Oscar contender, but as a generic, balls to the wall, Action film, I can see it working.
Wiseman isn't the greatest out there, but he does ''Big badda Booms'' pretty well, and I liked what he did with Die Hard 4. (It's just a shame it was edited to fuck)
And I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Dominic Purcell for Fenix please!!
Whilst on the topic of the greatest Video game to film adaptations, I'd like to nominate Mortal Kombat for the prize, a flick that I'm quite happy to watch even nowadays, there were some sweet fight scenes in that flick. And Goro's make up job was incredible....

"Its possible to suck giant monkey balls in a good way? 0_0"
Depends if you're a monkey...

Is this starring The Rock?

>"Can't see this being nearly as good as 300. "

As action movies go, very few films touch 300 IMO.

Imagine markus kicking some locust into a hole, screaming "THIS IS SIERA".

I think I could be the only male movie fan on Earth that found 300 ever so slightly ''Meeeehhhhh''.
Don't get me wrong, it was cool enough, but it was definitely one of those ''You've seen the trailer, you've seen it all'' type movies. And I definitely didn't see it as one of the greatest action flicks of all time, I mean it took like 40mins to get to that first ''This is where we fiiight, this is where they die!!!'' action scene.
There was a lot of terrible dialogue and awful hunchback exposition in between the good bits.

300 was a pile of steaming poo. And ethically dubious to boot. All this talk of "submission" from the bad guys. Islam anyone?

With the amount of homo-eroticism going on in 300, I seriously doubt it.

Easy solution to the budget problems:

Just outsource to some dutch company, promising next to no money. Instead offer the honor of working with Epic, and then when it's all wrapped up, don't even include them in the credits.

Then snort coke off hookers all day.

The film will probably be rubbish, but I can't wait to see one of the chainsaw sequences! ;)

Dont Make Films Based On Computer Games

Don't tell me that New Line have spent all that money they made from the Lord of the Rings films already?