The Rock to play Fenix in Gears film? Comments by Robert Purchese

More importantly than who is going to play the beefy space marine are they going to get the original game cast to do voice overs for this so the 'actors' just mime and it still sounds like the game dialogue!

no actor worth their salt would have anything to do with this. Gears of War the fricking movie, 100% guaranteed garbage.

Rock for Master Chief! - at least then we only have to hear the voice under the amour.. Sorry but if anyone's thinking the Rock then it's money over quality thinking in their heads' rock = cashcow', anyhow it can't be the Rock he's sold his soul to Disney for the next forever... DEAR GOD BAD THOUGHT - Gears done by Disney... AGHHH

Oh speaking of the Doom Movie guess who is playing Bones in Star Trek - Thats right it's DOOMGUY/Reaper! Thats how awsome the film is!

IMO there will never be a good film based on a game because they rarely translate well from one medium to the other. Games rely on you being part of the action so if there is a bad script/acting etc doesnt matter because your immersed in the world by directly influencing what happens in it. But when you are watching a film your detached from it all and are thus more critical of what you are seeing. So all the bad writing, acting and cheap effects just hit you in the face and you cant help but notice how absolutely shite it all is.

'sold his soul to disney'
not really, its important to vary your film catalogue and acting range to prevent typecasting.
i quite like the rock - good luck

Its got quality written all over it

Rock as Fenix?! Noo shocking but a darn lot more shocking to me, where my jaws crashed onto the keyboard pretty hard was when some ... I previously thought of as respectaible and discerning gamers say The Southland Tales was watchable?!

That movie... I still weeps for the lost 45 mins of my life when I finally gave up the ghost and ejected the rented blockbuster movie.

I ll hold my judgement until I see the final casting roll.

For gods sake, the Rock, are you kidding me. Stallone is the best and only choice, a good actor and a shit hot action star.

John Cena, he's an amazing actor.
Him and the Rock should co-star on this one.

DooM anyone? Hell no! NO NO NO! Why the rock? They would be better off getting Bruce Campbell to play (loves chainsaws and one-liners). That was taking the piss, a bit like getting the rock to play Fenix? Who are the going to get to play the others? Hmm, let me guess... Chris Rock to play cole? Clive Owen to play Baird? Seth Rogen to play Dom?
I think that the movie is going to really let the games down, but i'll be cautiously optimistic cos i love Gears. I'm just getting the feelin that they'll screw this up just like Hitman , DooM, Resident Evil And Street fighter. The only half decent game to movie adaptation was Silent Hil, and even that didn't live up to its potential.

And don't even get me started on the Mario movie!

You know this is exactly why Hollywood keeps giving talentless ex-sportsman or the richest 20 actors all the major parts in movies... because that's all audiences want!!! Someone safe, someone familiar. Wouldn't anyone like the idea of completely unknown actors? Guys you've never seen, or know the name of, that really make the roles their own? At this rate I'm surprised no one's suggested Brad Pitt and Wil Smith... they're two of the most overly used, highly paid, box-office guaranteed actors in movies today! I don't particularly care for this movie and it's pretty obvious it'll be full of a load of macho-crap throughout but I'm still waiting for a movie based on a game to change the attitude of Hollywood so they start to treat these movies like they treat comic book based films. The Rock is a joke. And clearly the script writer is too. What ambition... to get the Rock to play a part in your film. The director is far more important that the lead actor. Let me guess... you want Peter Jackson to direct?

Wooo! Dwayne! Love all his filums.

Too bad the movie itself will be poo. Gears of Snore.

Hes too tall, he should really play a cameo as carmine and get sniped.

Also the guy who played the hero in the doom movie also played bones in star trek movie and did a damn good job so actors can star in schlock and be talented, not that im sugesting the same thing about the rock.

Fuck Chris Rock for Coles role, just the guy who actually voices him to do it....THE MIGHTY RASTA

Also Gary to play Baird! :)

Karl Urban who was Reaper in Doom played Eomer in the lord of the rings and was also a pretty menacing assassin in Bourne Supremacy. These 2 films helped his career 100 times more than the damage a film like Doom could do to it. Plus i hear his performance as Bones in the new Star Trek is spot on! IMO he's a pretty good actor

/is looking forward to ST tonight