It goes without saying that videogame-to-movie adaptations rarely ever deliver what gamers want. But considering Epic's Gears of War already plays out like an interactive, wild f**king action movie, I'm cautiously optimistic about seeing the game on screen.
Horror Web site Bloody Disgusting caught up with the film's director, Len Wiseman, at the red carpet premiere of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. The director was more than happy to talk about the in-development Gears of War film.
"It's going to be much more [on the] science fiction side of it than the creature side," he explains. "I've always been much more of a sci-fi action fan than a horror fan."
This is good news, seeing as how Gears of War isn't, you know, a horror game. Wiseman says he's writing the film's script with Wanted scribe Chris Morgan, with the plans calling for a trilogy.
"Basically a harder edged Lord of the Rings," he adds.
Considering Peter Jackson's films picked up Oscars left and right, and most people have to get high to sit through an entire vidoegame film, I'd say Wiseman has a tough job ahead of him.
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11:00 AM on 01.24.2009
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If it's anything like his Underworld films, it'll probably suck.
The gayness...
Adolescent gang-ho gayness...
This will be... well... indescribable...
Also, Lester Speight MUST play Cole Train on the silver screen.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
They would have to do it right, but it could be our generations biggest sci-fi movie. The actual stories in both Gears of War suck, hard, but the action scenes are top notch; they just need someone with talent to write it.
In fact, it will look about as amazing as this guy's eyes... I can't stop staring. /sarcasm
that's such a fucking stupid thing to say. i have pretty much no hope that this film will be anything but a steaming turd.
and seriously, the guy that wrote "wanted"? please kill me now.
So basically it'd be like Aragorn saying "Come get some!!" instead of "For Frodo.." in Return of the King?
All these lame half assed movies make me long for how perfectly bad the old mario brothers movie was. Least there it was campy and just fun to watch
His lady friend is cute.
And history has shown that you can't make a good videogame movie, its simply not possible, every single one has sucked, Gears will be no different.
That's what both films have in common. So maybe they could Bro-fist, then Hug on top of Mount Locust?
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!