The Rock ... set to star as Marcus Fenix?

[Solid_Raiden]

Zizzla_Rachet said:

Carl2291 said:

Solid_Raiden said:
As a Gears fan, this sounds absolutely awful. Not just the rock to star as Marcus but the entire idea of a film. Sure the entire lack of any type of real story is fine in a video game where you are absorbed in playing the game, but turning that into a movie is going to fail no matter how well of a script you have, the calibur of director or actors. There just isn't enough room to make something cinematically great with what's there to work with given the template laid out by the source material.

My guess is that this would be the prequel to the games.

So it might not be all that bad.

 

A preqeul would be Fine....

@Solid

Your saying the Gears story won't work?...Does the Eiddick one work?

I think that there is tons of room....

I think the movie will be about as good as the DOOM movie and by that I mean not at all. What could they possibly do with the movie to make it good? Video game movies suck for a reason. What is plausible in a game just isn't so with a movie. Trying to shape a game into a movie, exspecially one worth any merit, is harder then you think. I don't even think the mgs movie will be great cinema, and I'm the hugest fanboy of that series. The only video game movie I really have any hope of turning out to be a great movie is the Bioshock movie because I believe it will be easier to transfer the source material into a great, smart and cinematic script, and that it can be visually spectacular and frightening and that the director of the pirates trilogy won't have a problem getting proper funding to make it come together.

Big muscular men with big guns and cheesy dialouge don't make good movies anymore, that was the late 80's early 90's. It's still damn great as a video game though! :D