The Gears of War motion picture might not be the visceral and brown rollercoaster ride that the latest installment of the videogame series was. In an interview with Making Of, producer Wyck Godfrey says the team wants to tell the story of instant survival after Emergence Day. In his head, the goal is to avoid making the flick “feel (just) like a world torn asunder” and have “people just in battle.”
“We went to the guys that created the game and just sort of made our pitch about how we’re going to put it together. Right now we’re working with Len Wiseman on it at Legendary and New Line,” Godfrey said.
“The hard part is to make it into something that doesn’t feel like a world torn asunder and people just in battle. You gotta figure out -- I think we really want to focus on the idea of a world that’s running well and then its Emergence Day.
“Kind of make it impactful and immediate and the survival of what those 48 hours as people survive Emergence Day is, more like Cloverfield or something like that.”
Neat. I’ve never seen Cloverfield. I heard it’s like Godzilla (minus Godzilla). I’m still not sure what that means, but I do know that I like dinosaurs. And Locusts. So, go ahead and count me in for the midnight launch of the Gears flick if Godfrey’s vision is realized.
[via Kotaku, image]
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8:00 AM on 12.08.2009
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Still didn't stop the monster look like obvious CGI.
I'd rather them go with that than a direct adaptation of the game's story. If they actually did that they'd create one of the most shallow and pathetically awful video game movies ever.
O_o
But that said based on Cloverfield I think they're heading in the right direction. At least the film doesn't seem like it's being rushed and it's adding to the canon and not trying to recreate it.
The only one I liked was the chick that imploded
It was complete shit and now it looks like the GoW movie is going to be complete shit as well.
At the cinema I watched Cloverfield in, half the audience got up and left half way through, the other half started cheering and clapping at the end. It wasn't cheering and clapping with joy though, it was accompanied by sighs of relief and shouts of 'Thank Fuck it's finally over'.
A film in this style (which is essentially two hours of realtime footage with few if any break) could really benefit from a heavy dose of imagination and creativity.
IDK about this GoW movie. It just doesn't sound...interesting.
I could be wrong, but I thought in Blair Witch the camera was passed from person to person and frequently set aside. I'm talking a film with one continuous character, which is almost what Cloverfield did.
Hire me to write it Len.
Every movie should be as Crank.