Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.

I just recently played this game for the very first time, but I know a lot of guys who were addicted to it when it came out. Hell, John Carpenter cut a meeting short once because it was time to head home for another level of GEARS OF WAR.

Stuart Beattie wrote a 21-page treatment that he and producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are going to be developing for New Line. That’s all it si so far... a development deal... but at least now the thing’s been set in motion.

I think there are some video game properties in development right now that could be fantastic visual experiences if they take their action-movie cues from recent pictures like CHILDREN OF MEN or, yes, 300. GEARS OF WAR didn’t seem like a reinvention of the wheel when I played it, but it was a really solid and engrossing environment. I’m curious to see what the filmmakers are going to try to make of this or WORLD OF WARCRAFT or HALO, for that matter.

Here’s a link to VARIETY’s original story!