Well, they've lined up top talent!!
33% rotten tomato rating Len Wiseman is directing!!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/len_wiseman/
Wyck Godfrey is producing!!
Average Rating: 2.8/10
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/wyck_godfrey/
T-meter critics: 0%
Top critics: 0%
“It’s like with our games, you can have it right or have it right now,” said Epic Games head Mark Rein. “We want to get it right. There’s no timetable for us. We just want to make as good a movie as we can, and we think (Wiseman’s) the guy who will do it.”
How many screenplays/novels/films has Mark Rein directed/written?
Wired reports:
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/06/die-hard-4-dire.html
"Len Wiseman almost totally destroyed the Die Hard franchise by directing a watered down, castrated version of a series that defined the idea of adolescent "every man" fantasies via the exploits of one John McClane.
I can't quite figure out if this is a brilliant combination or a harbinger of the worst game-to-film adaptation yet, but I feel pretty confident saying it'll have both explosions and women with copious breasts."
The Gate reports:
http://www.thegate.ca/blog/the-gate/01515/good-news-or-bad-len-wiseman-to-direct-gears-of-war/
"First of all, New Line is set to make the film, which is technically an offshoot of Warner Bros. Yes, that’s the same New Line that brought us that gem of film known as Blade: Trinity and Freddy vs. Jason. They’re a big studio, big enough to do this film, but as a production company they’re not known for producing quality action films, and their horror these days tends toward over-produced rather than clever."
"I give a lot of credit to Cliff Bleszinski from Epic, who commented in the article and points out that all we really need is for someone to take the material seriously and do it right. He points out in the piece that Disney made a franchise out of theme park ride, and I’ll admit to liking 2 1/2 of the 3 films they made there."
--http://www.thegate.ca/blog/the-gate/01515/good-news-or-bad-len-wiseman-to-direct-gears-of-war/
Yes--take the theme park ride of GOW seriously, and the movie will be great, as all higher art derives from theme park rides.
http://xboxer.tv/2008/06/gears_of_war_movie_gets_worryi.html reports "Gears of War movie gets worryingly low-grade director and writer combo.
Yes, the Len Wiseman! The Len Wiseman of Underworld fame. The Len Wiseman of Underworld II fame. And the Len Wiseman of Die Hard 4.0 fame. Excited yet? Probably not.
The original Gears script - written by Pirates of the Caribbean man Stuart Beattie - is being reworked by a bloke called Chris Morgan, who was responsible (to blame) for The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Does that make things better or worse? Probably worse.
Expect very dumb, medium-budget action with an extremely high "HOLY SHIT!" quota to appear by summer 2009 at the earliest." --http://xboxer.tv/2008/06/gears_of_war_movie_gets_worryi.html
We look forward to the resounding moviesuck.
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