How's That Gears Of War Movie Coming Along?

By Luke Plunkett

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Unlike certain other big-name gaming franchises, it looks like a Gears of War movie may actually get made. So how's it shaping up? Screenwriter Chris Morgan has an update.

Speaking with MTV, the Wanted and Fast & Furious writer says that a first draft of the screenplay is in, and that consequently the studio (New Line) are in the process of hammering out a budget for the flick.

"I think the gamer side is going to be thrilled with it," Morgan says. "All the stuff you want to see, we put that in there and then we blow it out a little more, even. Now it's just a matter of honing in on all of the character arcs and determining production types of things".

Well, of course he's going to say that. He's not going to come out and say "eh, we're kind of half-assing this one, guys, sorry". But still, he does at least promise that the movie will be "huge", with the production team hoping to convince New Line that "the fact that the world is being taken over by the Locust, it has to be huge".

Screenwriter Chris Morgan Offers ‘Gears Of War' Update: ‘It's Looking Incredibly Good' [MTV]

This is really embarrassing.

ummm... what?

I read that they`re making a movie of gow.

and... it's embarrassing how?

Why would that be embarrassing??

But i hope they make this movie...it could be pretty sweet.

*sigh* now if only the halo movie could be made already

VG--> Movie

1. There is not enough story in a game to fill out a full feature-length movie
2. Because of 1. you need to hire a creative screenwriter who can not only convert what's in the game to a screenplay but actually make stuff up that will work.
3. No screenwriter with the talent to convert a game into a good movie has the remotest interest in writing a VG --> movie screenplay
4. Because of 3. the people hired to write VG--> movie screenplays don't have the talent required to make a decent screenplay.
5. Only brilliant directors can turn substandard screenplays into half-way decent movies.
6. Brilliant directors, like brilliant screenwriters, can't be arsed working on VG--> movie projects
7. Because of 6. only semi-decent directors work on VG-->movie adaptations and they are incapable of making something out of substandard screenplays
8. Only brilliant actors can make something out of a crappy screenplay being directed by only a semi-decent director.
...

I think you know where I'm going with this.

And you are surprised that Halo has gone nowhere? I don't care how good a game Halo is (and I'll have to take other people's word for it's greatness), and how great the story appears to be in the single player game, it would make a shit movie. I think Peter Jackson has come to that realisation, but they had to come up with other excuses for why it isn't being done, because they don't want to tell the fans that it would be a shit movie.

Please no more VG-->Movie adaptations until people of calibre actually take an interest in making them. Name me a single VG--> movie adaptation that has risen above the level of mediocre. It can't be done!

Stop falling for it, please. You know you'll only be disappointed with the outcome like every other time it's happened in the past. Many is the VG--> movie adaptation that I have hoped would reflect the greatness of the game, and disappointment was the result, every time.

You the playing public now have the power. Face it, all you really want is for someone to take all the cutscenes and edit them together so you can watch them all as one seamless whole. You have the technology to do this yourself, so do it, enjoy it and move on.

I watched all the cutscenes from all the Legacy of Kain games from the original through to Defiance (skipping Blood Omen II) on youtube. It was BRILLIANT! I thought I wanted LoK to be made into a movie, but I don't see anyone coming close to making anything that compares to watching the cutscenes from all those games end to end. I just wish I had them all on one DVD so I would watch them without interruption. The only improvement would be to make the animation feature film CGI quality. Other than that don't change a thing.

Oh I don't think so, they done the same thing with the CGI movie PS3 Metal Gear solid 4 and that went well enough, Ok so they added a couple of bit's where you moved the joypad once or twice but overall the same sort of thing.

New Line went out of business about 2 years ago...Maybe it's with Warner Brothers now?
It'll be another big dumb summer blockbuster...

I seriously doubt this movie will be any good. Computer game movies never are!