The Gears of War movie adaptation has been pretty quiet of recent. In April this year rumors that production on a Gears of War movie had slowed down kicked up again–this time from New Line studio sources (as reported by LATimes). Reports suggested the storyline and budget were being dramatically scaled back and that Len Wiseman would be focussing on other projects, namely Nocture. The original budget was expected to be around $100m, it is now thought to be considerably less.
The script by Chris Morgan (“Wanted”) had a lot of buzz around it, and was tweaked late last year by Billy Ray, which included a lot of character work. Reports were good, a sprawling and epic action movie. The change to the budget however makes the film much less epic, and much more a simple invasion story. With this in mind, New Line are searching for writers to make these changes. Until this is ready, production is stalled.
Wiseman has now been attached to the Total Recall remake, and will almost certainly not be directing the Gears movie. Add to this that Kate Beckinsale is his wife, and we’ve lost our only cast member.
What now for the Gears of War movie? A 2012 release? A low budget action film?
Comments 3 Responses to “Gears of War being scaled back, delayed. Len Wiseman unlikely to direct.”
Thousands and thousands of gears fans including me, agree that a low buget crappy movie can never be a
gears of war the movie, you would be really pissing off alot of gears fans including me, so what most of the fans agree on is to give the movie to Warner bros, or some other company that will make Gears Of War The Movie, at the full standards it should have and deserves, and especially have Karen Travis as a writer, thank you, dylan
at least gears of war is getting a shot at being on the big screen halo movie is falling apart and wont be produce luckly directors and cliff like the idea of a sci fi action movie i as long as the graphics and action, and drama i will be happy show me the pendulum wars then e-day then marcus going to jail and his father being captured then gears2 when the locust horde rises and falling then to gears three and the destruction of sera and the lambent rising then marcus finding his father and all the character deaths and war and violence in the gears series play the games then right the movie i think it will be awesomw with a little money and good script
I agree with Dylan. Thousands and thousands of gears fans are indeed going to be pissed off at a low budget movie. The story plot is an excelent plot to put on the big screen. I also agree that the progect be given to some other company that will actually take the time and make gears into a great movie.