" 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."


Who do you want to play Marcus? How about the others?

Marcus...

Clive Owen, its like the artist borrowed his face for Marcus!

Nitro your picture isnt working!

I dunno dude...

Why oh why do they always pick the worst games to make into films. This is doom all over again.

Yeah. This is pretty much like making a film based on a car, or a beverage. Except cars and beverages tend to have more nuanced and nostalgic associations in peoples' minds. The " character" of Marcus might as well have a bicep in place of his face.

I' m guessing David Fincher (Alien 3, Se7en, Fight Club AND the ' Mad World' Gears of War commercial) will direct.

pffffft... hahahahahaha

Doom the movie wasn' t too bad. But it was only loosely based on the game.

They are going to need some HUUUUGE dudes to play this movie.

You know, the Doom movie wouldn' t have been so bad if it didn' t only resembled Doom towards the last 15 minutes!

The FPS view should have been used for most of the movie. It' s cheesy and nauseating but it' s DOOM.

And the Rock should' ve been the lead guy (although being the bad guy wasn' t so bad).

HUUUUGE dudes to play this movie.

Great, we count out any professional actors...

Please guys... if anyone fits the role it' s Mickey Rourke-

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Played Marv in Sin City. This guy fits perfectly.

Actually Cliffy B said he always thought of Clive Owen for the movie part, let me look for the statement

On a separate note, if the game were to become a movie, who would you see playing the characters?

Blezinsky: I think it' s important to be careful with the whole game-to-movie thing because I think a lot of game designers have this Hollywood envy where they don' t believe they' ve made it unless their game has been turned into a movie. I love movies but I believe I' m working in the most exciting sector of the entertainment industry. So if there' s a movie of GoW - cool. I' ll look forward to possibly making more GoW games, and let someone else worry about that. Truth be told, if there were to be somebody for Marcus I think someone like Clive Owen would be cool.

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Mickey Rourke still fits better. He' s got the size, the face, the roughness and the voice. Tell me that adding the little soul patch and a bandana to that pic wouldn' t look exactly like Marcus...

Try looking at WWE wrestler Batista, he has the look, the body and the voice, and being in the WWE he can act a bit too.

Mickey Rourke is too old now.

Oh god..........[:' (]

I bet a Gears movie could be better than the actually game, and even longer

I agree with Rampage, Mickey Rourke is the guy for the job.

They could just go CGI for Gears Of War.


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...interesting.. ....how deep and meaningful do you think the story will be?