New Line Cinema has acquired the film rights to award-winning video game Gears of War, with writer Stuart Beattie attached to adapt the project and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey of Temple Hill Entertainment set to produce.
The game, developed by Epic Games, became an instant success when it debuted in November. It became the most popular game on the Xbox Live service, overtaking Halo 2, and sold more than 3 million units worldwide in its first 10 weeks. It also has received numerous awards, including Gamespot's Game of the Year and the Interactive Achievement Awards' Overall Game of the Year.
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 the Sera's inhabitants.
Cliff Bleszinski, lead game designer for Gears, worked with Beattie to define a treatment, with the aim of crafting a movie that will appeal to the game's fans and moviegoers.
The game, developed by Epic Games, became an instant success when it debuted in November. It became the most popular game on the Xbox Live service, overtaking Halo 2, and sold more than 3 million units worldwide in its first 10 weeks. It also has received numerous awards, including Gamespot's Game of the Year and the Interactive Achievement Awards' Overall Game of the Year.
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 the Sera's inhabitants.
Cliff Bleszinski, lead game designer for Gears, worked with Beattie to define a treatment, with the aim of crafting a movie that will appeal to the game's fans and moviegoers.
- 3/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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