Underworld creator and producer Len Wiseman, recently at a red carpet event for the opening of Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, spoke for the first time about adapting Epic's Gears of War to the silver screen. Chatting with Bloody-Disgusting, Wiseman, who is directing the movie and co-writing with Chris Morgan (Wanted, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious), revealed that he's hoping to make Gears into a trilogy of films.
Despite not being a gamer, there was something about Gears that attracted him to the project. "I suck at video games, it just takes me too long and I can't get the coordination of 'em. When I was on [Live Free Or] Die Hard, I had to choose some video game for the background in a scene with Kevin Smith. I was shown about a dozen games and told to 'Choose one to be in the background' and I said 'this one looks really, really cool whatever it is,' and it was Gears Of War. I just really connected with it; the design of it the world, the whole thing. So I actually brought an Xbox 360 to start researching what it was," said Wiseman.
He continued, describing his plans: "It's going to be much more [on the] science fiction side of it than the creature side of it. I've always been much more of a sci-fi action fan than a horror fan. The hope is that were wanting to do three movies and really cover the bases on everything. Basically a harder edged Lord Of The Rings."
Gears of War 2 has been hugely successful for Microsoft and Epic Games, and while it's been hinted many times that the game franchise would be a trilogy, Design Director Cliff Bleszinski refuted that notion back in November.
Reader Comments (7)
I wasnt trying to say Gears will be the next lord of the rings, but the main reason video game movies suck is because most of the time there storyline will take longer than just 1 1/2 to 3 hours to explain good.
Most video game movies suck. i doubt gears will be any different
Not sure what the comic was like but the Wanted movie kicked ass
GOW=LOTR? Wow, that is hilarious! I'd be thankful if it was just one movie and it didn't completely stink up the theater.
Remeber almost all comic book movies sucked (besides the original superman movies) Until the origonal batman came out , and the Gears movie is supposed to come out the same year as the First Prince of Persia movie, and that movies director is Jerry Bruckhimer (sorry if I miss spelled it) the Director of the Pirates of the Carribean, and National Treasure series.
I never read the Wanted comic, but I felt that Wanted was an enjoyable action movie on its own terms.
As much as I'd love to see a "Gears" movie... Anyone who saw how badly Wanted turned out in comparison to the comic may share in my cautious optimism, seeing as Chris Morgan is co-writing this.