Gears of War…The Movie
The super popular “Gears of War” game appears to be heading to the big screen courtesy of New Line. Variety reports New Line won the rights to the popular Microsoft and Epic Games creation.
Writing the screenplay will be Stuart Beattie who also penned Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral. Producers will be Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey.
The article states that the deal is with Epic alone who retained rights despite allowing Microsoft development. With its commercial success a sequel is essentially guaranteed making a movie/game co-release a distinct possibility.
So far the numbers easily show how popular “Gears” has been selling 3 million copies to date and ranking as the 4th most popular game of ‘06 despite a single console release and a late release date.
Let’s hope this doesn’t go the way of Halo and fall apart before hitting the big screen.
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