Official Announcement
NEW LINE CINEMA ACQUIRES FEATURE FILM RIGHTS TO
AWARD-WINNING VIDEO GAME GEARS OF WAR
Stuart Beattie (Pirates Of The Caribbean) Tapped To Pen
Film Adaptation Of The Popular Video Game
LOS ANGELES (March 20, 2007) – New Line Cinema has acquired the feature film rights to Epic Games’ award-winning video game, Gears of War, with writer Stuart Beattie attached to adapt the project and Temple Hill Entertainment set to produce. The announcement was made jointly today by New Line Production President Toby Emmerich and Epic Games’ VP and co-founder Mark Rein.
Since its debut in November 2006, Gears of War has broken sales records on the Microsoft Xbox 360, selling more than 3 million copies worldwide, and has received numerous awards including Gamespot’s “Game of the Year” and the Interactive Achievement Awards’ “Overall Game of the Year.” The game thrusts players into humankind’s epic battle for survival against the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet. The story unfolds as a ragtag group of soldiers use every last ounce of strength to survive the onslaught from the forces of evil, which begins on the historic Emergence Day.
Beattie previously penned Collateral, and is credited with the screen story for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He has also written the screenplay for 30 Days Of Night and 3:10 To Yuma, a film staring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. Cliff Bleszinski, the lead game designer for “Gears of Wars” worked in conjunction with Beattie to define a treatment for the film, which will target existing fans of the video game and captivate a whole new audience. Bleszinski will executive produce the film on behalf of Epic Games.
Gears of War is being produced by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (iRobot, Daddy Day Care) through their Temple Hill Entertainment production company. The project is being overseen for New Line by production executives Cale Boyter and Jeff Katz.
Creative Artists Agency represents Beattie, Bleszinski, and Epic Games. Beattie is also represented by Joan Vento-Hall of the Law Offices of Joan Vento-Hall.
ABOUT EPIC GAMES:
Epic Games, Inc., based in Cary, NC and established in 1991, develops cutting-edge games and game engine technology for PC and console. The company has created multiple million-selling, award-winning titles in their Unreal® series and their latest game, Gears of War®, broke sales records on Xbox 360 selling more than 3 million copies worldwide in the first ten weeks and awarded overall Game of the Year for 2006 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Game Developers Choice Awards, Gamespot, Gamepro and many others. Epic is also responsible for the Unreal Engine, which is the underlying technology for a wide range of games including, Console Game of the Year winner, “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell TM” by Ubi Soft; PC Gamer’s Game of the Year, “Deus Ex” from Ion Storm/Eidos; “America’s Army: Special Forces,” by the United States Army, and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (PC) by Electronic Arts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 is the current holder, and three-time consecutive winner, of Game Developer magazine’s Front Line award for Best Game Engine. Epic Games was also awarded Studio of the Year at the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Awards and Developer of the Year by Official Xbox Magazine. Additional information about Epic can be obtained through Epic’s Web site at http://www.epicgames.com.
About New Line Cinema Corporation:
Celebrating its 40th anniversary year, New Line Cinema is the most successful independent film company in the world. Its mission is to produce innovative, popular and profitable entertainment in the best creative environment. In addition to the production, marketing and distribution of theatrical motion pictures, the fully-integrated studio has divisions devoted to home entertainment, television, music, theater, merchandising and an international unit. In 2005, New Line partnered with HBO to form Picturehouse, a new theatrical distribution company to release independent films. A pioneer in franchise filmmaking, New Line’s Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most successful film franchises in history. New Line is a division of Time Warner, Inc. (TWX).
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it’s great!!!
i’ve been waiting for the movie since i played Gears of War…im 13 years old, im in love of the game, and in Marcus and in Baird; so i want handsome actors for them
I just read this last night and me and my bandmates freaked out. But we saw an IGN speculative article on cast members and needless to say they could have made better choices for the larger than life characters that would be played. I wonder if they will go with a story similar to the game or if they will play on some of the backstory.
Hello, i looked at the character choices for the movie on IGN, and they suck. I, who have played the game and is a beast i may add, lol, must say who i think should be the real characters. For Marcus, i think Vin Diesal would be WAY better the Bruce Willis. He would ruin the movie. For Dom, Clive OWen, i just think they have better simularities then that other dude. For Kim, i dont no. For Cole, Micheal Clarke Duncan, he is way bigger and more beastly and BA then that other dude. He sorta looks like Cole also. For Baird, i think Cole Hauser would be way better than that fruit cup from LAs Vegas. I cant take him serouisly as a military soldier. But Cole Hauser has had experiance with military movies in Tears of the Sun for example and would make a way better BA and Captain, well x captain like baird. SO PLEASE READ THIS AND THINK, BELIEVE ME I WANT THIS MOVIE TO BE AWSOME. AND I THINK THAT MY CHARACTER CHOICE IS KEY!!!!
Will, dude Cole Hauser cool. Diesel sucks though and how u gonna have a white englishman like Clive Owen play a latin guy like Dom. What matters is having good actors that can portray the character well. I think Ryan Reynolds or Machonahey would b good Bairds but like u said Cole hauser is way better than Mr. Vegas
The actors in movie
Marcus-harrison ford
Cole-ice cube
Baird-paul walker
Kim-vin diesil
Dom-clive owan?
This movie will be the move of the year too!!
DUDE ARE U FUCKIN SERIOUS I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE TO COME OUT…when is it coming out
Im excited about the film but it will be an 18 because the game is an 18 so ill have to wait an extra year for it to come out on DVD. But i hope it becomes a 15 so that more people who play it can see it like me im 15.
Yeh, i rele hope it’s a 15 too, doubt it though lol. I would have liked the sound of the film even if it wasnt based on an AWESOME game lol big up to all GOW gamer ;D
Hey, do u think this movie will give us a better history of why marcus is in Jail….This movie sounds sweet!
i think the asian guy who played bruce lee in “dragon” as well as mowgli in “the jungle book” would make a good adaptation for kim. he’d have 2 shave his head. ving rhames would make a good cole or micheal clarke duncan as said above
Cole- Terry Tate. I mean he did the voice for Cole in the game, why not keep him for the movie?
Regardless, this movie better be badass like the game!
O this is so tight!I cant wait 4 the movie I think that the actors should be this:
Marcus-Vin Deisel (only because of his size) Lame acting
Cole- Someone new ( a big guy)
Baird- Paul Walker is a good choice
Kim- a big guy
Dom- fig from transformers (i thought he was pretty good)
Carmine- an idiot (just like he is in the game)
Dude, The Game Rulez, and The Movie (and Sequel) will be just as good.
My Version Of The Cast:
Marcus: The Rock
Dom: Vin Diesel
Baird: Arnold Shwarzenegger
Kim: Jet Li
Epic… Keep Us Posted !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pfft, Marcus is Caucasian…Baird is Caucasian……Dom is Latino…..Cole is African American.
Marcus Fenix, Dominic Purcell.
Dom Santiago, Vin Diesel.
Baird, Ryan Reynolds.
Augustus Cole, Micheal Clark Duncan.
Best Cast idea yet……
man i hope they dont mess up on the weapons design and put every weapon in the movie the hammer burst,shotgun,hammer of dawn,torkbow,pistol,44 revolver,and most inportant the lancer please do not mess up the design of the lancer
Okay, here’s our interpretation of (possibly) future cast members:
Marcus: Javier Bardem (with a little fix to the hair and a bandana, you have your Marcus)
Dom: I dunno.
Cole: A conflict between Michael Clarke Duncan and Lester Speight
Baird: Jason Bateman (you have to admit, blonde hair * Jason equals live action Baird)
Carmine: Jim Carrey (with a helmet on, who’ll know?)
Kim: Chow Yun Fat (with bald cap)
Colonel Hoffman: Clint Fuckin’ Eastwood
Franklin: Chris Rock
THIS MOVIE IS GONNA ROCK AND KICK HALO’S ASS
Your all a bunch of idiots, the people they have are great for the job… Accept for that wanka Terry Crews A.k.A the guy supposed to play Cole, his head is too fat and he’s a pain in the ass!
The best game ever
Cole- Micheal Clark Duncan or terry tate
Kim- Jet Li
Marcus- Batista(the wrestler)
Dom-the rock
Baird- dont know
carmine- doesnt matter
eric banna has to be in this movie!!!
he is the best actor!
cant wait tho ive always wanted this to come out as a movie
n e 1 no when its due?
Cole: micheal clarke duncan or Bob Sapp
Marcus: Domonic purcell
Dom: the rock/dwayne johnson or batista(WWE)
Baird: Ryan Renalds or carl urban
kim: Jet Li (retired), soo Chow yun fat
The best picks are from the xboxic site:
http://www.xboxic.com/news/2612
Marcus: Dominic Purcell
Dom: Franky G
Cole: Terry Crews
Baird: Neal McDonough
These dudes looks just like them. There’s your cast!
I would like the following cast
Marcus- Batista from the WWE
Dom- Dom Purcell
Cole- Michael Clarke Duncan or Terry Crews
Baird- Matt Damon
Kim- Jet Li
Terry tate should play cole because he is the voice of the character also.. check him out online he is fcking huge black and the voice of cole train
the CGO characters has to be like in the game T H A T ‘S I M P O R T A N T !, they have to be A B I G M U S C L E M A N ! ! ! ! !!
Marcus – The massively Huge german guy from Beerfest… Im sure he can have a good american accent….. hopefully
Dom – The mexican who gave Statham the beijeing cocktail from CRANK
Kim – The actor who played bruce lee
Baird – The guy who played hellboy… just through some make up on him to make him look younger
Cole – Terry Tate
Carmine – doesnt matter… he wont last long anyway
well I beat gears 1 and I finised 2 the 2nd day it came out. a movie for this series would be awsome and I hope a gears of war 3 comes out..with C. Carmine cant have a gears without a Carmine XD
Alright, this is what i think should be the actors for this movie. You don’t want to many good or bad actors, or it will be just shitttt. but i doubt that.
Marcus – Dominic Purcell or Batista
Dom – Timothy Olyphant or Franky G
Baird – Timothy Olyphant (with Blonde hair)
Cole – Micheal Clark Duncan or Terry Tate
Kim – Chow Yun Fat
Idea for actors :
Marcus – Mickey Rourge
Dom – The Rock
Cole – Michael Clarke Duncarn
Baird – Ryan Reynolds
Marcus – I think Dom Purcell IS a good choice but he needs to be aged with makeup and not so damned “pretty”. Make him look like a real man!
Dom – Franky G, same thing, age him a little and make him look like a real man.
Cole – I like the choices of Terry Tate or Michael Clark Duncan are great. What about Tyrese Gibson add forty pounds (or so)? (watch him in Transformers, he’s great)
Baird – although Neal McDonough looks like him, I think Til Schweiger looks AND acts like him. Jason Bateman, that is pretty good actually.
Kim – Jason Scott Lee
Hoffman – who said Clint Eastwood? Rock on! I agree!
Some of you are being unrealistic. You can’t have a bunch of big named movie stars in one movie like this or it will totally ruin it. I don’t want to see too many famous people in it because it takes away from the characters of the movie.
some of you people have good idea for the cast ..but seriously think about it. in the game they are all HUGE. you would have to go with like a complete wrestling cast except Carmine and Cole
Hows this look
Marcus – Batista
Dom – The Rock
Baird – John Cena
Cole – Michael Clark Duncan
As for the rest i can’t see them in the movie a whole lot so you could pick and choose.
just imagine the size of the budget for this film will be ….oh yeah and if they put RAAM in the movie The Great Kali could play him…in a suit and he dosent talk ….RIGHT ON!
i honestly see this movie beating THE DARK KNIGHT in sales
Marcus – Chuck Norris
Dom – George Lopez
Baird – Owen Wilson
Cole – Wesley Snipes
cole train deffo for cole cos its his game!!!! and if gears 3 come out i think we sould keep carmine in cos surly all the carmines arnt all dumb-fucks! and dont any you hate when you dont see a charictars face…like in the film we should see who carmine is. and the reson we (me n brother) hate halo is because there has be 3 games and we still havent see his god-damn face!!! but gears will be good but dont forget….something will be wrong in the film, you cant get everything perfect!!!
I think the movie will be better as graphics like the game, however if you find decent actors that look and sound simular to Delta then thats ok but its got to be decent!
lol good luck also when is the movie out in cinemas?
Batista must play Marcus, they look alike, perhaps Marcus Phoenix is based on Batista, who knows, heres a link
http://img26.imageshack.us/my.php?image=batistadavebatista44.jpg
My question is, will it be computer animated, like the games, or acted out? Of more, I’d think you’d need the characters actual voices, or it’ll sound pretty weird to me…
Alright! Finally a Gears movie! I can’t wait! I think they really need to explain the Pendulum Wars in the movie because they really don’t say much about them in the games, yet the wars are a key part of the story! Cool, so my picks for characters are:
Marcus: (hate to say it, but) Vin Diesel, or a new actor
Dom: Really dont know who I’d pick for him…
Cole: Gotta go with Michael Clarke Duncan!
Baird: Either Ryan Reynolds or the guy from Push and Fantastic 4(Johnny Storm)
Hoffman: Clint Eastwood for sure!
Really hope that they just do Gears 1 in the first movie, but(like I said) EXPLAIN THE PENDULUM WARS DAMMIT!
I think this movie gunna be everything its expected to be
and yea Marcus looks alot like Batista he should totally play Macus!!!
Will this fail just like the Halo Movie? Or will it succeed into getting it actually made? Will find out……… Very, very……… Very……… Well I dont know really.
Showing some love to this topic “new to this wordpress”. I defiantly agree with it also. If you really think about it than it all makes alot of sense
Bro ; i livee for this qame +& I’m patiently waiitinq for the day it comes out i believe that the movie should show lots of tention between marcus +& baird cus it would be funnny +& pleasee i beg of you quys pleasee put a funnny asss character for cole he’s like the best dude in qears just put one of those big quys from lonqest yard also make carmine like one guys who qet all the qirls cus carmine just roxxx they should johnny from (fantastic 4 ) for baird +& qive batista for marcus +& make sureeeeeeeee that skorqe loooks beast if he’s qonnnna be in the movie
big ups to all you GOW players
GEARS OF WAR = shitting on halo +& peeeinq on call of duty
Gears of war movie will be the best movie to ever hit the big screen. The game is the best game i have ever played and in my opinion the movie will make more money then any movie ever made. There should be some female cogs in the move just to give it a little more kick. Hope to see the move soon good luck with the movie.
Marcus-Batista
Dom-The Rock
Cole-Micheal Clark Duncan
Baird-Ryan Reynolds
Carmine-whoever
Hoffman-Clint Eastwood
Im in love with the game and been waiting for the movie really want to get a close look on who killed my Carmine Anthony. “Yeah but i’ve got a problem *Grunt* What’s wrong with this thing. It keeps jamming. SEE” I WILL BE THE BEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD
This movie should be CG like final fantasy, i just dont think its ready to have real actors, plus like previously posted it would sound wierd for other people vioces coming out of the voices, or they could make it live action and make up there own characters instead of using the game’s, Example=Resident Evil, sure they showed up in the later sequals but in the first one RE fans are saying, Who the heck is this chick?
Oh and just for fun marcus Fenix, played by Johnny Depp lol.
marcus fenix—-jason statham (given he can tone down the british accent
cole—terry “mighty rasta” tate(have you looked up images of the dude who voices cole)
dom— the rock
carmine— ben stiller
Hoffman—tim mcgraw
baird josh hartnet
OMG LOVE THIS GAME I CANT WAIT IM OBSESSED I EVEN HAVE THE BOOKS AND MIGHT GET A REBLICA SUIT AND LANCER ITS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!