Gears of War movie gets more financing

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Gears of War movie gets more financing

Posted Jul 25th 2008 3:45PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News

Variety reports that Legendary Pictures has signed on to co-finance and co-produce the upcoming Gears of War film adaptation. This comes in the wake of Legendary financing another film based on a little game called World of Warcraft. Legendary also recently had its hand in The Dark Knight, which is currently tearing up the box office. Epic guru Mark Rein said of the deal, "Legendary's appetite for the synthesis of gaming, film and pop culture meshes perfectly with our own." Well, that's good. We all like it when appetites for synthesis mesh.

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-movie, legendary, legendary-pictures, mgs, microsoft-game-studios

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-25-2008 @ 4:04PM

Ben said...

Synthesis is actually quite good with some fava beans and a nice chianti

7-25-2008 @ 4:05PM

TORO said...

I'd watch it, I wonder who would play Fenix??

7-25-2008 @ 4:19PM

Stupendous52 said...

Short list:
Drew Carrey
Tom Green
Ben Stiller
Forrest Whitaker

7-25-2008 @ 4:43PM

VPhoenix said...

Nah, I can only picture it being Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He'd be good for the role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_Johnson

7-25-2008 @ 4:34PM

VPhoenix said...

Can't stop The Train, baby!

7-26-2008 @ 9:29AM

Ben said...

The would have to just go ahead and cast Mighty Rasta as the Train himself.

7-26-2008 @ 4:52PM

VPhoenix said...

Let's hope!

7-25-2008 @ 8:27PM

anthonyjh said...

What the hell is the story going to be about? How the hell everyone got so damned big?

Fun game sure, but the plot was bare bones. So many other games deserving of a silver screen representation rather than this.

7-25-2008 @ 8:59PM

erivera3 said...

Example: Halo

7-26-2008 @ 3:06AM

Staplenut said...

So many games have deeper plots that could be made for film. Half-Life comes to mind. Hell I would rather of had Duke Nukem over Doom... At least we would have gotten some space tits in the mix.

7-26-2008 @ 10:07AM

Tann said...

yay

i still want a halo movie:(

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