Gears Screenplay Emerges

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_b...vert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;2

Gearhead reports that the Gears film begins as the planet Sera's last human-on-human war is concluding. After 79 years of constant conflict, mankind finally knows world peace...until the Locust horde emerge from their underground realm and begin slaughtering the celebrating surface populace.

The films begins with heroes Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago already in the army of the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG). However, it shows other characters from the game, including thrashball star Augustus "Cole Train" Cole, prior to their military service. The film also features Fenix's wife Maria, who goes missing during the chaos of Emergence Day along with his children.
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Interesting. Looks like it will be more of a prequel. YOU CAN'T STOP THE COLE TRAIN BABY!
 
Just as long as they don't tone it down, and absolutely glorify the violence like none before, this could be the most fun at the movies I've had since I was a teenager. ;)
 
They'll screw it up somehow.

They'll probably Brokeback Mountain-ify it.
 
This is what should have been in the game in the first place. The story made absolutely no sense. You just jumped around to different areas with no explanation, this screenplay actually explains several things in the game.

Anyways, this sounds like the most expensive movie ever made.. In other words, it ain't happening. Just like Halo they will drop it when they figure out the budget.
 
poo? said:
The story made absolutely no sense. You just jumped around to different areas with no explanation, this screenplay actually explains several things in the game./QUOTE]

I love Gears of War, but come on, it's probably got one of the most straight forward, simplistic and cliche storyline ever. What was there to not understand? Humans go to war, aliens attack, aliens win, small bands of soldiers fights onwards.
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Cliche just means common, not shitty.
 
This film will be no good unless Terry Tate is in it.
 
This could join Snakes on a Plane and 300 in the list of most extreme movies of all time. Or it could join the 'awful movies of games' list instead. Only time will tell.
 
The game is pretty stupid. I'd be surprised if it winds up being any better than that shitty Doom movie. Gears may have been better than Doom 3, but the setting/story/atmosphere for Doom 3 was much better ... and that's really all that matters in the transfer from game to movie.

If they want to make movies out of games, why not pick games that aren't completely retarded? Granted, most games are pretty stupid, but some stand out. A GTA movie set in a another city/time but still using some of the same characters from the games could be interesting (basically another GTA story, just in movie form). Max Payne could be excellent. I can't really think of much else, but there are quite a few that would at least make better movies than Gears of War, Doom, Resident Evil, etc.
 
GoW is much more movie material than Doom because GoW is an entire war and it has a very cinematic feel to the entire game.

Doom was just a solo space marine and the movie guys had to make up a lot of stuff to make it viable for a movie. I actually thought it was a pretty decent movie (until the end).
 
I wouldn't mind seeing a half-life movie.The Doom movie was average but a gears movie i don't know if that will work or not.
 
the show 1347 said:
I wouldn't mind seeing a half-life movie.The Doom movie was average but a gears movie i don't know if that will work or not.
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Because the dialoge between Gordon and the rest of the cast would be so very stimulating!

But yeah, 300 with guns and chainsaws on guns sounds pretty cool. I look foreward to this with interest.
 
Bob_Marley said:
Because the dialoge between Gordon and the rest of the cast would be so very stimulating!

But yeah, 300 with guns and chainsaws on guns sounds pretty cool. I look foreward to this with interest.
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Why must a HL movie have Gordon in it? There are plenty of possibilities with that idea.
 
Kyo said:
Why must a HL movie have Gordon in it? There are plenty of possibilities with that idea.
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An HL movie without Gordon begs the question as to why it would be made in the first place.

Aside from losing the kind of narrative feel that was achieved in the games, what subject material from the plot would be appropriate? Thus far, the only link to the G-Man - an integral character - is through Gordon Freeman. Alyx, who has served as the primary accomplice for the most part, would play too little a role. Many of the locales would be unavailable because nobody other than Gordon and a few select characters have access to them.

Besides, Gordon is the force that the HL universe revolves around. Without him, the film loses a lot of its context. Why is there an uprising in the city? Why was Nova Prospekt significant? What did Gordon do to make him so important? There's no other way to expose this kind of information to the audience except through word of mouth, which is pretty weak. Making a prequel or a distant sequel doesn't solve any of these problems either.
 
Half-Life itself was an interactive movie, leave it alone.
 
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