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'Gears of War' Will Go Green Screen
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GamePro recently spoke with 30 Days of Night scribe Stuart Beattie and scored some news about his upcoming Gears of War adaptation. Based on the bestselling Epic game, the story centers on an elite military unit called Delta Squad fighting off an alien invasion by something called the Locust Hoard. But, Gears of War was never about story, it was all about firepower. So, how do you capture all that carnage on the screen? Why with green screen, of course. Beattie told GamePro, "There's no way to build that world any other way, really...That's a huge world. It's a planet and it's a bubble and it's a building. It's an epic sci-fi war and an enormous film. To get it made at all, the only way to make it for a price is to be on a sound stage. But the game also has that look, which is really interesting, so I think it will dovetail really nicely".The rights to Gears were purchased by New Line back in March, and there were rumblings of a treatment floating around a few weeks later. There is still no word on a director yet, but New Line has promised that they will start looking for one as soon as Beattie finishes his script. Beattie is probably most famous for his work on The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but he is also responsible for Collateral and Australia, so you can't deny the man likes to make diverse choices. He has even worked on video games in the past; writing the script for an installment of the crime game, The Getaway. Beattie has yet to turn in a finished script for War, but he seems to be in a collaborative mood and has been working closely with Epic Games on the project. Gears of War is set for release in 2009.
A Possible First Look At 'Gears of War' Treatment
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So it just might be possible that the big-screen version of the Microsoft video game Gears of War is a step closer to production. Latino Review is posting what they claim to be the first pages of the film treatment for New Line, and we know they have some good New Line contacts. It's a pretty detailed treatment with plenty of information about characters and plot points, so, if you like to be surprised, beware of the plenty of spoilers that lie ahead -- tread carefully. It was only a little over a month ago that we had word that New Line had picked up the best-selling video game but, given Microsoft's history with big-budget video game adaptations, I think most fans were probably pretty skeptical. If this treatment is the real thing, it would seem that this time around, New Line isn't going to waste any time.According to Latino Review, the treatment is the work of Stuart Beattie, who is also set to write the script. This won't be the first video game project for Beattie, who also wrote the script for Spy Hunter with Dwayne Johnson set for release in 2009. Beattie also has a screenplay credit for the upcoming Russell Crowe and Christian Bale western 3:10 To Yuma, The Punisher 2, and Baz Luhrmann's Australia -- so it doesn't look like he has had a lot of free time in his schedule lately. Since the Gears of War project is still in the realm of speculation at this point , and I think we've learned by now that when it comes to less than rock-solid sources, it is always best to wait and see.
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