Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Gears of War

11/10/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that Gears of War producer Wyck Godfrey said the film is close to production.  Len Wiseman will direct.  "It's moving along," Godfrey said. "Len Wiseman is involved. Chris Morgan did a rewrite. We're waiting for a draft."   Wyck's priority is to get the script right: He knows making a good movie out of a popular video game is dangerous territory.  "Video games are hard because they don't have a story, usually," Godfrey said. "They have a concept and a world, and you really have to create the story, so that's been the thing we've been working on. We'll get there."  Gears of War is a third-person shooter in which players look over the character's shoulder; it is set on the planet Sera, where soldiers battle subterranean aliens called the Locust Horde.

7/25/08 - Legendary Pictures will help finance a film adaptation of the Gears of War video-game franchise.

06/18/08 - Len Wiseman has signed on to direct New Line's Gears of War, based on the hit video game from Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games.  Wiseman will develop the story with Chris Morgan, who is writing a new draft of the film based on a previous script by Stuart Beattie.  Gears revolves around a world reeling from an invasion by aliens known as the Locust, and a small team of elite soldiers who fight to retake the planet and save its human inhabitants.

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