Marcus Phoenix coming to the big screen
In an interview with ComingSoon.net, producer Wyck Godfrey gave the following piece of information in regards to the forthcoming Gears of War movie: "We've got our script on and a director we're about to attach. We'll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010".
It'll come as music to the ears of Gears of War fans but game-based movie adaptations are often nothing more than a huge let down. With a game as popular as Gears of War however, which broke various records and sold nearly five million copies on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, should we have any reason to believe it could actually be good?
Well, probably not. Gears of War the game had very little story itself, revolving around an event known as 'Emergence Day', which saw a race of creatures known as the Locust Horde emerge from within the Earth's surface. As is usually the case in computer games, a group of muscular US soldiers go to war against the evil creatures and that literally, is that.
As a game, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and thrilling action ride. As a movie? We're not so sure. But, who knows, maybe this year's Gears of War 2 will provide the depth that this story really needs.
Games aside, there are some small signs of promise for the movie. Writing the script for the Gears is Stuart Beattie, best known for writing movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral. What we don't have yet is a director, but as Godfrey states, expect a name to be attached in the very near future.
Than of course there's a small matter of casting, who should play Marcus Phoenix? That's the question that most fans will be asking and I'm going to go out on a limb and say, why not John Travolta?
A small beard and more body armour then he could possibly carry and he'll be a Marcus Phoenix lookalike through and through.
