Gears of War Movie

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The release date is still unconfirmed, but may be released on the summer of 2010. Len Wiseman (Director of Die hard 4) will be the director of Gears of War the movie. Chris Morgon will be involved with the screenplay in this film, and writing the script for the film. Some of the rumors of the movie is that the movie studio New Line Cinema will be co-financing and co-producing the Gears of War movie.

On March 20, 2007, it was announced that New Line Cinema had purchased the rights to make a Gears of War film, with Stuart Beattie writing the script along with Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, who will be producing it. The film is scheduled to be released in 2009. Producer Wyck Godfrey said of the film adaptation, "I'm not a gamer, but what blew me away about Gears was how it captures the mythology of a war mission and how high the stakes are." On August 3, 2007, AICN.com reported that Len Wiseman was to direct the movie adaptation of Gears of War. though on March 30, 2007, Godfrey stated that they have "a director we're about to attach" in order to film the movie during 2009 and release in 2010.

Wiseman was officially signed on in June 2008 with Chris Morgan performing script rewrites. Morgan hinted on televised coverage of Comic Con 2008 that the film would be a prequel to the first game, "it could explain how Marcus (Fenix) got his scar." According to Morgan, Wiseman "wants to make it as realistic as possible, and to blur those lines where your mind says, "Oh, it's a big CGI film".