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http://www.vgcharts.org/news New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft's hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War" with Stuart Beattie writing and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner. CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21 page treatment by Beattie, who wrote "Collateral" and "Derailed." "Gears" has sold over three million units and is hugely popular on Microsoft's Xbox Live service, which allows players to compete against each other online. Though it was released in November and is available only for the Xbox 360 console, it quickly became the fourth best selling game of 2006 in the U.S. Story, which is only modestly developed in the game, is about a world reeling from an invasion by aliens known as the Locust. A small group of elite soldiers, including the 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. "Gears" is Microsoft's most succesful game since "Halo," which had an ill-fated attempt at movie development. After developing a script itself, Microsoft sold the project to Universal and Fox in 2005. Peter Jackson signed on to executive produce and Neill Blomkamp to direct, but the pic fell apart this past fall after the studios balked at the final budget.



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SWEET!!! Now i'm going to have to add this one to my collection:::



fooflexible said: SWEET!!! Now i'm going to have to add this one to my collection:::
Super Mario Rocked! I'm hoping they don't screw this up.



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fooflexible...that better be sarcasm... Video-game-based movies really tend to suck...with only a few exceptions. I think the games we all want to be movies still need to be made...a good Resident Evil maybe, Metal Gear Solid, Halo even...I wouldn't say Halo is totally dead..



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The best video game movie was the Animated Street Fighter.



 

  

 

I still like the Fatal Fury OVAs the best. Of course then I guess it's technically not a movie... I also had fun watching the Virtua Fighter TV show.