Why Video Game Movies Fail & Why Gears of War Will Fail

Video game movies fail because they are generally case studies of Hollywood putting the bottom line over the higher ideals, of placing arrogance, hype, and fanboy groupthink over art.

Here is how 300 worked:

epic story -> epic graphic novel -> epic screenplay -> epic movie

Frank Miller, the Individual Author, was present the whole way.

Here is how Gears of War is proceding:

fanboy hype -> pictures of Cliffyb with Lindsay Lohan -> ambualnce chaser/producer Wyck Godfrey chasing the latest fad -> more fanboy hype about how Gears of War = LOTR because of common New Line producers -> more fanboy hype that GOW = 300 because it will be shot with a green screen and electricity too -> hiring hollywood hack Stuart Beattie who is incapable of art --> GOW movie dudd

Here is their fatal flaw.

King Leonidas lead his army for truth and freedom against mysticism and tyranny.

The Cliffyb/Wyck Godfrey/Beattie triumverate represenst Hollywood's mysticism and tyranny. They are responsible for the death of art, story, and culture.

The point of art is to serve the people and the higher ideals. The Cliffyb/Wyck Godfrey/Beattie triumverate is seeking to serve themselves, tehir investors, their egoes, and the bottom line.

None of them have ever created a deep, profound, meaningful male character.

None of them have ever created a deep, profound, meaningful female character.

None of them have ever created a deep, profound, meaningful story.

There are screenplays and novels out there that could serve them well, but as story and soul have been banned by the machine, they must remain loyal to Xerxes (New Line/Wall Street) who gives them power and glory for sacrificing love, soul, art, and story.

The GOW movie will fail, and this much is for sure--the bigger the budget, the more New Line's investors will lose.