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Are The GEARS OF WAR Finally In Motion??
Merrick here...
A while back, IESB reported that Len Wiseman was angling to direct a movie based on the XBOX 360 video game GEARS OF WAR.
This was around the same time that Wiseman was closing in on the ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remake (read my review of Ken Nolan's script HERE).
EFNY went radio silent and was never heard from again. But talk of GEARS persisted, usually with Wiseman indicated as its unofficial director. Stuart Beattie scripted a draft which was quickly leaked & vivisected on the Internet (you can still find reviews online). Still, the project seemed to be crawling.
Now comes word that Wiseman has officially signed on to direct the film. And, it seems, a new writer is being brought in - Chris Morgan (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT, the upcoming FAST AND FURIOUS, and the soon-to-be-released WANTED).
Set on the planet Sera, the game thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde. Players assume identities of soldiers on Delta Squad as they fight to save Sera's inhabitants.
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter, which also includes some comments on adapting games to film from GEARS design director Cliff Bleszinski.
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Will the entire film be filmed with a blue tint? Maybe Weisman should direct the Smurfs movie instead?
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Enough with the video game adaptations. I'm begging you...
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The damn thing only came out like a year ago. Somehow I doubt this is going to be any good.
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on the ROUNDTABLE talkback, having read it on the EMPIRE website. Man, AICN is slow.
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Can't we just let the games tell their own stories and let movies be original? Why fuck up something that in its own right is already good. I personally didn't like the Gears of War gameplay, but it told a decent story. I'd rather see more things like Southland Tales, Wanted, and BabylonAD. Enough with the games to movies.
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was basically a video game movie with the indestructible John McClane hitting reset after every injury, so why should an actual GOOD director be attached to this? Video game adaptations are their own genre, trying to satisfy the gamers and movie goers and they never work. EVEN Silent Hill, so don't bring that up.
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until they finished the game and realized it was the dumbest final fight ever, and would make for a really lousy movie.
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that quote is about a video game, not a movie.
Unless this movie has "players" -
starring bruce willis
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Whose dick is Wiseman sucking to still be getting jobs? Who is his uncle?
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Merrick's article headlines poke you in the eye. I can tell it's going to be his article before I click the link, can everyone else? Not sure if that is a good thing or bad...
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Terrible
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was nothing like a Die Hard movie. Len Wiseman is the very definition of the word hack.
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Sure would be nice to see Space Marines done right again. Doubt this will do it but it's always nice to see another shot at it.
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Nuff said.
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Since its obvious we'll never get a Space Marines movie (other than Aliens), this will do just fine, I think.
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Really is!
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These sentences do not bode well -Writer of Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift!?director of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK remakea movie based on the XBOX 360 video game!
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Uwe Boll attached to this. But then again that would break the first rule of Boll Club.
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Tell me when you got more news about the Pixar adaptation of Mario.
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How can it possibly be a good movie? The game is fun but that's only because your playing it and not watching it for two hours.
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46009
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Once they take out the critters lifted directly from "Pitch Black" there will be even less story to tell. Usually it's a struggle to cut a game's story down to the point where you can tell it well in a 90 minute movie, but here they're going to have to pad it. That, and if they stay true to the color palette of the game then the movie is going to make "Minority Report" look like "The Wizard of Oz."
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Seriously, he's competent enough to be bearable but never interesting enough to be good.
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Brett Ratner, but not in the Salieri kind of way. Wiesman is much worse than the rat though.
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...such a shame :(
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remember that plant review of Tokyo Drift where the reviewer said that all the kids were so excited from seeing the movie that they were all out in the parking lot afterwards celebrating and drifting their cars around? I'm sure it was better than the movie itself.
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And holy shit that's what I call a conclusion to an epic story!!! Anyway, considering the plot of Gears of War it's not surprising that they got this director and writer, I mean... honestly... Gears is a testostorone fratboy fest, and frankly that's probably the way it ought to be and the movie should reflect it to cater to its audience... Gears can only be a fun summer movie with a lot of badass scenes and enjoyable badass characters cracking jokes and swearing and chainsawing things. Those early 'Mad World' commercials were funny as hell because they in no way reflected the actual tone of the game itself, hahaha! There's nothing sentimental about it at all! Anyway AICN, if you've got some time to kill, it would be awesome if you could chase down that story about Paul Thomas Anderson being interested in doing Metal Gear Solid.
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He's not a visionary but all of his movies are done pretty efficiently and have a good look to them. Die Hard 4 wasn't a masterpiece but it was immensely entertaining so I can forgive him for not being a visionary. Look at the other end of the scale, Oliver Stone is considered a visionary and he hasn't made a good film since......hmmmm.
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I didn't see the Theatrical Release of Die Hard 4, I saw the Unrated DVD version and loved it. Thought it was smartly done for an action flick. Justin Long wasn't as bad as I thought he was going to be.
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who fucking cares about another videogame movie, they're all fucking retarded.
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WHo cares? I crap bigger than that monster.
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Jun 17, 2008 2:23:32 PM CDT
I thought it was set on planet earth & the locust attack
by orionsangels
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Jun 17, 2008 2:24:18 PM CDT
hatespeech, spoken like a guy who hasn't played video games
by orionsangels
since pac-man
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The makers have put together some great monsters. From the looks of the creatures I've seen in Gears of War (I haven't played video games in years) there's more creativity flowing in these things than I've seen in movies lately. If I had to guess why it would be that these things are created on how effectively they can kill you and it just goes from there. They should really apply the same logical principal to movie monsters. With Stan Winston gone we need a new genius.
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this movie so better not suck.. and rate it R!!!!!
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Not like Underworld. Please get line backers. Not the Rock. Not any wrestlers. Please get the costumes right. & NOT every battle scene needs to be during night time! Why do you think people liked Spiderman so much?! & PLEASE!!! No LOVE STORY! Unless its an off character who needs to get back to his wife and kids. Marcus does not need any snatch!
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i thought dh3 sucked, but this might as well have been another character/universe, entirely. fucking retarded. seriously fucking retarded.
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as are all of those Fast and Furious movies. And from the trailers that I've seen, Wanted looks just the same.
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It doesn't matter if he can act cux the character is about as one dimensional as a wrestler.
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...maybe they'll make a video game adaptation and then base a movie off of that... Without an XBox controller in your hand, I can't see this film having much merit.
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i pray for the superhero/videogame/prequel/remake/sequel Holocaust thats been going on since the 80's to end. please noble Crom and your winged horde in the glory gates above perched on your bleak mountain, descend from the yellowy yonder and onto that foul city and waft the blood out from the mummified inhabitants and creativity cannibals so that whenever us lowly plebes may go there with an idea unheard, that it may gently lap against our weary and warm ankles and wash away the caked shit from the walls and ground.
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This is the best game out there, it just begs to be made into a film. And seriously, those who say that the plot is razor thin. Most movies that get made have less of a plot than this, I think video games get a bad reputation just because their video games and not your precious "Graphic Novels" that everyone here adores so much.
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War is bad, m'kay?
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Come on, give Grandpa Al the juice for a year, tell him it's heroin and he'd be the perfect Marcus.
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while i agree most games would make a piss-poor movie, the Halo story streatches well beyond the games. If you read the novels too (barring The Flood, which is the poorest of the lot imo as it basically recounts the events of the first game) then you'd see that there is a *lot* of charecterisation, etc, going on in this 'universe,' and you could definitely make a pretty good sci-fi action flick out of it.
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You're missing out on some great stories. GTAIV is an amazing movie.
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Jun 17, 2008 8:44:35 PM CDT
In shocking news, GOW will be filmed entirely in blue tones...
by qweruiop
..director Wiseman said. He said it will be a completely original take from his previous movies, and that it will be something his fans have never seen before. Strange enough, before taking on GOW Wiseman had previously turned down making a Smurfs movie, a Blue man group movie, and a documentary about the blue whale and blue bell ice cream, saying those movies would not be blue enough.
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That's what the monsters in the game look like.
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fuck this I want a goddamn halo movie!
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He can cobble some fairly good action scenes together, plus he's married to 'you know who'. :)
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I'm there.
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Wow, will it be as good as Doom?
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In the meantime, I'm gonna finally open my copy of MGS4 this weekend, (well that and Ninja gaiden 2)which should tie me down during this summer especially since there's not many game releases from june till late august.
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Why not make a movie about that instead? It would be way more interesting and then we can have three people in cinema history to be called Snake.
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Sounds dumb, think they will add scenes of LAG in the movie to simulate online game play! :)
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Clue. And that was a board game. Source material is not important if you have a great script and a killer cast. The people behind Clue could have made a film based on Count Chocula and it would still be better than anything coming out these days.
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That was one of the all-time great plant reviews ever posted on this site. That drifting in the parking lot bit was an obvious lie, much like the infamous "chest-bumping fat kids". She also stated in that review that: "this movie is da booooommmb!!!"
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The game was decent but the action was rather good. GTAIV was a better game though....
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It makes complete sense...he's the king of directing piss poor overrated game adaptations and bringing them to the big screen. So why not have him tackle a cool looking game with little plot and no chance of working on the big screen? (A bunch of guys fighting aliens in a post-apocolyptic city! Never seen that before!). The game adaptation fad needs to die..it shit the bed with Alone In The Dark and Doom...and even Silent Hill and the Resident Evil movies couldn't save it.
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