Writer drops details about Gears of War movie

by Kevin Kelly { Oct 6th 2007 at 10:04AM }

GamePro has an exclusive interview up with Stuart Beattie, writer of the forthcoming Gears of War movie. He's been tapped for the job since he did a bang-up job writing the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It's too bad they didn't use him for the sequels, because they were ... craptastic.

He drops some interesting details about the upcoming film, including the fact that 300 ain't too bad of a reference movie, "That film was shot completely on green screen, which is amazing when you actually see the film. It's probably how we're going to do Gears of War."

Beattie will be pouring himself into the job apparently, "I hope it's extremely collaborative. From my point of view it's definitely going to be, because I'm going to be riding their asses about it." Personally we don't care whose ass he rides, as long as a good movie comes out of it.

He's no stranger to video games either, as he's writing the Spy Hunter movie adaptation, and also recently wrote a sequel to The Getaway game for Sony. He's even bummed that Disney didn't bring him in to work on the Pirates video game: "I wish they had called because I could've helped them on that. That was a crappy game. I could've made a really cool game with Pirates. They just don't know the potential of that game. They could've made as much money on that game as they did in the movie. A film that successful they could've easily done $300 million in videogame sales if they had made a good game."

Here's hoping he's still got some magic left in the pen and / or keyboard. He wrote Collateral, which isn't a bad movie at all. Plus he has 30 Days of Night coming out soon, and between those two, we're sold.

Tags: Gears of War, GearsOfWar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stuart Beattie, The Getaway

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Alex @ Oct 6th 2007 10:20AM

Sounds cool as my Cole Train gets played by Mr.T ;)

Fernando Rocker (NDF - Water Ring) @ Oct 6th 2007 1:02PM

Mr. T rules.

GregG @ Oct 6th 2007 8:01PM

Nah, Cole Train should be played by the guy that voiced him because he also played Terry Tate, The Office Linebacker, in those Reebok commercials.

Alex @ Oct 6th 2007 10:23AM

as long as*

phattie @ Oct 6th 2007 10:26AM

Gears beats Halo to the big screen!

hermes @ Oct 6th 2007 10:42AM

http://movies.ign.com/articles/825/825035p1.html

IGN reports that New Line is considering the can for the movie. Balooning budget is their reason.

B1gC72 @ Oct 6th 2007 10:50AM

now im against everything Xbox but lookin at this guys resume, he will make a great movie outta Gears. i believe i would definitely go see this.

krazy @ Oct 6th 2007 11:04AM

YAY! GEARS movie ftw!soo... every guys gonna have to be large.. so the rock as marcus maybe, :D so which italian guy gonna be dom?!?!

Bobbo @ Oct 6th 2007 2:46PM

the rock as marcus, okay whatever.

but dom isn't Italian. He's mexican. So i say Danny Trejo.

TWiNKiE @ Oct 6th 2007 11:10PM

Dom always struck me as a Dominican...... but whatever.

Anni @ Oct 6th 2007 11:04AM

A movie shot entirely on green screen is hardly exclusive to 300, or even that interesting, to me anyway. Hell, even Sky Captain did that.

Cabcru @ Oct 6th 2007 12:34PM

Not a big fan of green-screen shot movies. They always seem a touch blurry and oddly claustrophobic. Just too 'processed'. They'll probably get a lot better - but it's like when the 80s got a hard on for video effects.

LaughingTarget @ Oct 6th 2007 11:29AM

Green screen shooting is dangerous. Without a damned good director, the movie ends up horrible. See the three Star Wars prequels for an example of bad directing in front of a green screen. Those movies didn't have bad actors, it is just hard to get into the character when there isn't anything to reference.

blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Oct 6th 2007 11:50AM

and for 300 they had good actors and scripts

that's the key

NvM @ Oct 6th 2007 11:52AM

Hayden Christensen was a pretty bad actor.

NvM @ Oct 6th 2007 11:55AM

It'll need some good directing,acting, and writing to get this to work.

But if it works, it'll be awesome.

I think there will plenty of movies that will be trying to be 300 in the future, in more ways then one.

Macroy @ Oct 6th 2007 1:58PM

I think most movies need good directing, acting, and writing.

Guybrush Threepwood (Sega Defense Force - Infallibility Ring) @ Oct 6th 2007 12:03PM

Marcus Fenix - Gilbert Gottfried
Dom - The guy who played Leonidas in 300
Baird - Zach Braff
Cole Train - Eddie Murphy

Best movie ever.

blooh (CDF - Ass Ring) @ Oct 6th 2007 12:13PM

ugh, not zack braff. he sucks. also he doesn't look the part at all

Benny @ Oct 6th 2007 2:04PM

Leonidas' name is Gerard Butler, and is a freakin' amazing actor that doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Go and watch a movie called Dear Frankie.

Ally @ Oct 6th 2007 7:33PM

Eddie murphy and zack braff?

Both very funny and great actors, but c'mon? they're small guys.

they would look ridiculous.

Akiosarin @ Oct 6th 2007 12:34PM

lol, Zach Braff xD Gears Of War mixed with Scrubs....I like it

Akiosarin @ Oct 6th 2007 12:35PM

on another note....they HAVE to use Megadeth - Gears Of War for the main theme, theres no question about it xD

DeadPlasmaCell @ Oct 6th 2007 12:51PM

I've said it before, but there is no excuse why they can't use Cole's voice actor Lester "Mighty Rasta" Speight aka Terrible Terry Tate: Office Line backer

I mean the first 40 seconds are proof enough..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

GregG @ Oct 9th 2007 12:39AM

AGREED.

LAZoftheTamarinds @ Oct 6th 2007 1:55PM

I would love to see a Gears Of War movie. As long as they don't drastically change the storyline like some other videogame movies do. Heres to hopin it turns out GREAT!

Benny @ Oct 6th 2007 2:05PM

What storyline?

Bahaha, I kid. I love Gears.

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Oct 6th 2007 2:27PM

He wrote the first Pirates AND Collateral (one of my favorite movies)??

Ticket sold.

shivr @ Oct 6th 2007 2:42PM

Gears had a storyline? I played through it for the first time recently and by the end I really had only a vague idea what happened ;p If this dude can make it coherent though, then by all means he should give it a shot

Zach Isso @ Oct 6th 2007 2:52PM

He's talented, but can he make something of quality out of the most cliched and uninspired stories to be seen in a major game in years. I'd like a Getaway film, though.

Al Smalco @ Oct 6th 2007 3:18PM

So Halo isn't getting a movie, but Gears of War, a game with much less mainstream appeal/recognition and a crappy generic story, is? Makes a lot of sense...

Benny @ Oct 6th 2007 4:20PM

Following the $80-odd million in 24-hours thing, I have a feeling there may be some renewed interest in a Halo film.

lance @ Oct 6th 2007 3:34PM

whats that guys name from news radio and fear factor? You know Joe ---? He would be perfect as Dom.

Leonidas @ Oct 6th 2007 9:31PM

Joe Rogan would make this BAD ASS!

elmersglue @ Oct 6th 2007 4:07PM

that guy needs a new haircut..

Resist @ Oct 8th 2007 9:26AM

OMG are you kidding me, the story sucked, made no sense, didnt tie together at all. Halo deserves to be movie, its epic. Also Resistance fall of man should get its own movie, the story line on that one was alot better than GEARS OF WAR. ( but what i really want is a GOD OF WAR movie).