New Line Acquires Rights to Gears of War

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Source: Variety

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

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New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft and Epic Games' video game Gears of War, with Stuart Beattie (Collateral) writing the adaptation, according to Variety.

Gears of War has sold more than 3 million units and is the most popular game on Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which allows players to compete against each other online. Though released in November and available only for the Xbox 360 console, it quickly became the fourth-bestselling game of 2006 in the U.S.

The story, which is only modestly developed in the game, concerns a world reeling from an invasion by aliens known as the Locust. A small group of elite soldiers, including main character Marcus Fennix, who is rescued from prison at the beginning of the game, fight to retake the planet Sera for its surviving humans.

Epic developed an extensive backstory in hopes of utilizing it for a film as well as potential novels.

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incmob

April 1st, 2008 12:58pm

Dizle, you forgot about that monstrosity of a film with the rock a few years ago called... doom, as well.

The game, one time through was a great story, great action and left you wanting more, i am hoping that the film can only be on the same level. But again there have been more misses than hits, and i agree that they shafted alot of fans with the halo film planned, which i am still hoping gets off the ground while the franchise is still fresh.

Phatlightning

April 1st, 2008 11:24am

where is the PREVIEW PAGE!?!?!? and this game is not as good as was made out to be.

THEDIZLE

August 7th, 2007 5:25pm

I RAPE THAT GAME ON LIVE...
I seriously hope they go through with it, not like they did by blowin off HALO or Dragonball... Hell they made bloodrayne and other shit... I wanna see Arnold as the captain... GET TO DA RAVEN, MOVE NOW... lol

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