Variety is reporting that New Line Cinema has won the feature rights to the awesome Gears of War. The rights reportedly went up for auction recently, however no information is available on production timing or who may be signed up to star in the movie.


New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft and Epic Games' hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War" with Stuart Beattie writing and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner.
CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21-page treatment by Beattie, who wrote "Collateral" and upcoming "3:10 to Yuma" and "30 Days of Night."

Studio's deal is with Epic, the game's developer, which held onto all ancillary rights to the property when Microsoft signed on to publish the game. Though it hasn't been announced yet, a sequel vidgame is assured. If development of both projects goes smoothly, New Line and Epic would surely love to see the film and a game sequel come out around the same time.


Variety.com

thats crazy they might make a movie out of it......it was a good game but will it be a good movie

i bet it would be better then the halo movie thats coming out lol.

I hope it will be good, even though i never played the game.

I am looking forward to this, the game is excellent and you can Imagine that it could make a great move too

let us know when they cast

couldn't believe this won for best RPG.

did we all see this coming anyway?