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Gears of War

Gears of War

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Blending the best of tactical action games with the best of survival horror titles, "Gears of War" is the first game developed by Epic Games exclusively for Microsoft Game Studios and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. "Gears of ...

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New Line grabbing rights for Gears of War movie

Posted on Wednesday, 21 March 2007 by Ryuken, source: Variety
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New Line Cinema has obtained the movie rights to the three million selling Xbox360 title Gears of War.

Developer Epic Games has made the deal with them, since they still own the property rights, even though the heavy Microsoft marketing would have made people think otherwise.

The people involved with the script and early production will be Stuart Beattie (writer of Collateral), Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey. Gears of War lead designer CliffyB will act as executive producer so he can see for himself that nothing will go wrong with his baby.

The movie should be out by Summer 2009 (who knows, the sequel to the videogame might be available then too?), a director will jump aboard once the script is complete.

Here are some quotes Variety gathered from Mark Rein and Wyck Godfrey:

"We wanted to make an entertainment property that's not just for games but for other media," said Epic VP and co-founder Mark Rein.

"I'm not a gamer, but what blew me away about 'Gears' was how it captures the mythology of a war mission and how high the stakes are," Godfrey told Daily Variety.

"Our first and foremost philosophy is to do no harm, so we debated heavily the idea of doing a movie at all," Mark Rein said. "But we feel we stacked the deck in our favor by working with the best players."

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Wouldn't it be a bit painful for Microsoft and Bungie to see this coming out before the Halo flick (if that ever gets done)? Seems like Epic is less demanding to movie studios, hopefully that won't be reflected in the movie's quality.
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Directed by Uwe Boll and starring American Idol's Clay Aiken.
Directed by Uwe Boll and starring American Idol's Clay Aiken.
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Posted on 14:34, March 21st 2007
 

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