Jul 24, 2008 by Courtney O.

Legendary Pictures Shifting Gears of War

Legendary Pictures has come on board to co-finance and co-produce Gears of War, a project based on Microsoft and Epic Games' hit videogame.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Len Wiseman is directing with Chris Morgan writing the script. The first draft was penned by Stuart Beattie.

Gears of War centers on a world beset by aliens known as the Locust and a team of soldiers fighting to retake the planet. The violent action title is Microsoft's second best selling videogame franchise, behind Halo. A sequel is coming out in November.

New Line had initially aimed for a summer 2009 release for the picture, but Warner has not yet dated Gears of War.

Gears of War comes to theaters in 2012.


Sources: The Hollywood Reporter

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Comments (34)

  1. Radimus-83

    f*ck off Travis.... we're talking about DOOM here! lol

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  2. T.Clark

    I still want more bioshock news...:(

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  3. ed_wood

    I justed watched Doom again and its not bad. I'm not a big Karl Urban fan though, except for Pathfinder.

    4 years agoby @ed-woodFlag

  4. Radimus-83

    i really liked Urban in it, which is kinda surprising cause i'm not fussed on most of his movies. and the Rock, well... he's the man!!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  5. Chad Vital

    But yeah I did like Doom, if Karl Urban and The Rock weren't in it, the movie would have sucked major ass lol. I just didn't like how they changed the story of the creatures/demons.

    4 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag

  6. Radimus-83

    i know, your right! they did f*ck about with it too much. but they did that so they could open it up to a movie audience rather than just us sci-fi/gamer freaks! lol

    i still loved the movie though, i just wish they had a sequel to make up for their mistakes from the first!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  7. Chad Vital

    Yeah but Doom's plot got raped when they made a movie. Poor thing. They changed the coolest part about Doom. That's like changing the Halo's Covenant or Gears of Wars' Locusts into machines or like they did with Doom...super soldiers...wtf!? lol

    4 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag

  8. Radimus-83

    ahh jeez!!!

    Chad, The Kwisatz.... picking between the two would be like picking between my kids! (don't have any kids, you know what i mean)

    but since we're talking cool video games.. DOOM3 gets a f*ck yeah from me!!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  9. The Kwisatz Haderach

    I agree Chad Vital, Gears rocks over Halo any day

    4 years agoby @the-kwisatz-haderachFlag

  10. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    Blah blah blah....this is boring news.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  11. Chad Vital

    They can pretty much have any bad ass play Marcus with a deep voice. The other characters however, need to be dead on. That includes Dom, Baird, Cole, and even the Locusts.

    4 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag

  12. Chad Vital

    No offense guys but Gears of War destroys Halo. Hands down. It's realistic, violent, better characters, better enemies, better plot, better weapons, better evironments, better dialogue, etc. Halo is the kiddy dumbed down version of Gears of War lol. Gears will pwn Halo any day.

    4 years agoby @chad-vitalFlag

  13. Radimus-83

    the reason Halo is still tied up, is because the *ssholes behind it can't come to any sort of agreement!

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  14. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Sweet!
    Still want Halo more. No offense. But Bungie is missing out. Probably after this is a success the a-holes will get their stuff together and make Halo.

    4 years agoby @narratorFlag

  15. Solar XI

    They were planning to make Master Chief a supporting character. But Halo should go into production like now. Halo is the first original XBOX game... even though Microsoft created both Halo and G.O.W. we just have to wait.

    4 years agoby @solarxiFlag

  16. Radimus-83

    brilliant!!...... recently got back into playing the game and forgot just how f*cking great it is! (stuck on the last level though :(

    now i wonder who'll they put in the roles of the characters. Chris Evans anyone?

    4 years agoby @radimus-83Flag

  17. cmanptown02

    Ok...so they can finance "Gears of War" but not HALO?!?! Don't get me wrong Gears is going to kick ass on film. But the Godfather of the XBOX is stuck in a rut?

    4 years agoby @cmanptown02Flag

  18. Shadow Of The Day

    Awesome.

    4 years agoby @asifFlag

  19. Saquin Turok 'X'

    Same here Frenzy. Yes, once again, the already mega-rich arseholes squabble over what's pocket money for them, and the fan looses out. Still. I'm just pleased that this is coming out.

    4 years agoby @teesterxFlag

  20. Frenzy2001

    Gears of War is a very good game and could make a decent movie, but I'm still pissed that this movie is being moved on, and Halo is on a shelf somewhere because some corporate *ssholes can't agree on who gets the biggest cut of the several million dollars they would make.

    4 years agoby @frenzy2001Flag

  21. Solar XI

    I enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard, it was able to give hardcore action and a good plot, so hopefully the director will make this sh*t awesome! And Warner Bros. struck gold with The Dark Knight so hopefully they make the right choices with this film...

    4 years agoby @solarxiFlag

  22. XJWS79

    About time they gave us an update on this. The game was freaking sweet.

    4 years agoby @xjws79Flag

  23. Papa_Panda

    Dominic Purcell as Marcus
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700712/

    Mighty Rasta as Cole Train (He did do the voice for Cole)
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711529/

    Can't really think of who would play Baird or Dominic.

    4 years agoby @papa-pandaFlag

  24. cnote

    Dear god...PLease dont f*ck this one up!!! The game rocked and the sequel looks sick as f*ck

    4 years agoby @cnoteFlag

  25. artkid04

    good choice for director, i loved the underworld movies and the unrated Die Hard 4

    4 years agoby @artkid04Flag

  26. DCMX(16)

    this movie is gonna f*cking rock!!

    4 years agoby @dcmx16Flag

  27. ed_wood

    Really looking forward to this, the game was awesome.

    4 years agoby @ed-woodFlag

  28. The Kwisatz Haderach

    god I hope this kicks ass. I liked the game, graphics were sick, game was relativly short which pissed me off, but I enjoyed it. This should be a damn fun movie to watch.

    4 years agoby @the-kwisatz-haderachFlag

  29. Phatlightning

    Probably should get a no-namer for Marcus.. but this would be a kick-ass movie, as for the game, not so much. I hope the sequel is better than the original.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  30. dahopas

    christian bale would do a good marcus, gerard butler could do it too.

    4 years agoby @dahopasFlag

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