@Guizzy: Amen, brother.

Gunhaver

hmmm...a movie based on a game that has no story what so ever. Pass

Nickaus

@UCB-Disco: Dude that vid= fucking epic.

deathtastic

To all those already pissing on this film:

Stay out of my "huge guys blowing shit up" movies and I'll stay out of your "tragic movies about a sickly deaf, mute and blind girl learning the play the violin to express her undying love for a struggling poet" "movies".

Thank you.

Ain't nothing wrong about a movie with huge guys blowing shit up once in a while.

Guizzy

He is right on how superhero movies are kinda good now compared to before, so maaaaybe they might make a video game movie that is good.

Well FF7 was good! lol

GodKiller0

If Batista could act, he would be a pretty good fit for the role of Dom.

TheParsons519

thats great news! still, i'm looking forward to the mgs movie. and the inevetible WoW movie! (lol)

think about it, it would be the first movie to reward watchers while watching!

like, you level up while in-movie!

....

yes/no?

SolidSnake1118

They should cast carrot top in this!

SAGA

@jmill87: AGREES. As he was "Terry Tate", he IS "Cole Train". Every time I hear him say, "WHOO!" in Gears of War, I always think of him tackling somebody in the Office Linebacker videos. hahaha. GOOD times!

UCB-Disco

@UCB-Disco: Yeah I already knew that he did the voice for Cole. I was just saying that I would be happy if he did the part in the movie because he embodies the energy of Cole and just plays the part so well, and I would be disappointed if someone else played the part.

jmill87

@jmill87: Actually, Lester "Mighty Rasta" Speight (AKA Terry Tate) is the voice of Cole Train AND, according to IMDb.com, he is rumored to play Augustus "Cole Train" Cole. Now THAT would be an amazing addition to the Gears film.

Hmm... if only the voice of Marcus actually looked like Marcus. hahaha. Then we would be in business.

UCB-Disco

Dude huge vetoes huge dudes?

Gouki4u's avatar has a severe case of Jekyll and Hyde

@Superstar90: lol I just watched that episode on TBS earlier tonight.

jmill87

You guys are forgetting that the movie is inspired by the events of GOW. It takes place during the early years and follows the sensuall journey of a young girl from milan to minsk as she copes with the war and her budding sexuality.

lol

Superstar90

@underbaker: I'm sure that's who he was referencing since Batista has absolutely no personality.

Kanik

@Corrin:

Because most Hollywood movies these days have a good story :|

@enigma89:
I don't think I could watch Botchtista for 90 minutes. Or any of the other steroid monsters the WWF management loves to shove down viewers' throats.

presidentrich

@UCB-Disco: I would die a happy man if Terry Tate played Cole Train. This movie definitely needs comic relief and he'll be perfect.

jmill87

Well I guess we all know what DUDE HUGE's moneyshot face looks like now.

jmill87

...and introducing Dude Huge as Anthony Carmine

Spartan1308™

Cliffygasm? Where are you getting these pictures from? O_o

...and where can I see more?

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

@UCB-Disco: Terry Tate is so awesome.

Look, if Cliffy doesn't allow Batista to play Marcus Fenix, he'll be a bigger dick then he already is. How many muscle-bound actors do you know that don't have enough acting talent to play in a Gears of War movie.

enigma89

@Corrin: That's the part that I'm not understanding with both the novels and the film. Does anyone really care about that story that much? Last time I checked GoW was massively popular due to the MP gameplay... not it's story.

I really can't picture this not sucking.

ƒox

This movie should star the Iron Sheik. /discussion

Fitz Rhapsody

Batista looks like marcus fenix

underbaker

@StupidityTries: That made my day. Thank you.

minimelo321

@StupidityTries: dude you birdmanned me. *lays down* nice avy

sandal-hat17

Look, I love Gears of War. The story is trash. The multiplayer gameplay is where it's at! There is no way this game will make a good movie.

Corrin

I don't think they will pull it off.

kyroN

Hopefully CliffyB will make sure the movie doesn't suck balls.

foxwarrior88

@kRaSh32: This just in: Jason Statham will be playing Marcus Fenix.

Ha. Kidding.

But really, look for a guy who can act the big warrior in an empathetic way, and beef him up. You've seen the difference in Gerard Butler between 300 and P.S. I Love You? Muscle can be made - acting talent, not so much.

AntiheroKing

@Detre:

Unless I missed something Hitman was a fucking mess, of course you may have been watching it with the sound off... and your eyes closed which would make a world of difference. I give you your point though, there are many "alright" game movies but they are subjects close to our hearts, "alright" is, erm, alright, for some unknown summer blockbuster movie but for a cherished game franchise, I think it's still disappointing.

Dark Knight is good because Chris Nolan (and his brother) are hugely talented and they had a great cast too. Watch his other films, original ones like Momento, and then compare that to Underworld and Fast and Furious. You'll get a general gist of the mile wide chasm in directorial and writing quality you'll be getting in GoW.

Jelster

What no Dwayne the Rock Johnson to play Dom?

Majpain007

@UCB-Disco: that was amazing

mablung

They don't need guys with tons of charisma, maybe mild charisma. Steve Buscemi and Christopher Walken have great charisma but they wouldn't be best for the role (though they would be a dream team for a buddy picture). They need someone who people believe could caused a lot of havoc and actually have a chance of saving humanity. Wanting to watch someone for two hours isn't what people are going to this movie for, they're going for the action.

DocBacca

At first I read "assuage" as "assure". Probably more spot on anyway.

mablung

son no john cena or baptista...bummer :(

rwhp3

If the charecters are portrayed as they act in game, they would be nothing but meat-headed pro wrestlers. Pro wrestlers are nothing more than meat-headed professional actors anyway. To make a Gears' character have charisma in the movie would be to detract from the games' true feel. Just have good special effects and sound and it will net about the same as that new whats-its-name death race movie with that guy that ruins action movies nowadays.

kRaSh32

LOL at cliffyb thinking pro wrestlers don't have charisma

How many hollywood actors electrify 20K people crowds on a nightly basis?

bpapa

@DemonBlood: Well, there wasn't much of a Plot in Super Mario Brothers Games when the movie came out. I'm just saying you didn't really get a true view into Mario's Psyche or the true motivation behind stepping on those little turtles. Does he fell pain for them? Does he hate them? Are they just in the way? I can't identify with that. =(

I don't get how movies based on games like Max Payne, Hitman, DOA and the like get made, while they have games like Bioshock and Metal Gear to make movies out of; and why it's so hard for a Halo movie to get made.

I'm sure Gears has a intricate back story and all that with Marcus and whatever his dad was doing, but it's not explored in the first game, it's going to be odd if they try to include it a lot in 2, and trying to stick a story on it halfway will turn off a lot of fans who just like killing shit.

Laughtrey

I don't know how this movie can rise to the any great level with Len Wiseman directing. His directing has just been "adequate" to me. They need someone better.

And not just to rag on Len, but Chris Morgan isn't really setting the movie world on fire with his writing credits. Save for this summer's Wanted, which was a good action flick.

Maybe, they should've hired Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov to director Gears.

Oh well. We'll see.

kagai

This might actually not suck.

justinbox360

Wrestlers suck. They shouldn't be in any movie unless they are doing the stuntwork. and even then, it would probably be to the movie's detriment.

marmidukestank

Personally i think there have been many good video game movies. Any omg oscar winning god father like video game movies? Hell no. Good movie to waste a 2 hours or so watching? Hell yes. Silent Hill, RE 1-3, Hitman, and MK are all movies that are very watchable. Id go so far as to say in the grand scheme of shitty movies they are far far from that. He hit the nail on the head when he mentioned comic book movies. A movie like say The Dark Knight, to me, was simply amazing. Not only was it a good comic book movie it was a really good movie period. I think video games will have that next level movie eventually (by next level i mean "oscar worthy"), but the stuff thats been churned out thus far really isnt that bad.

Detre

So what ol Cliffy is trying to say is that the characters in GoW had more depth that a pro wrestler eh?

Witzbold

This just in, Cliffy casts himself as Marcus Fenix in Gears of War movie.

Reports that Brainy Smurf will play the Cole Train have not been confirmed.

Yonderboy

The farther Vin Diesel and the Rock are from this movie, the better it's going to be.

QualityJeverage

@DemonBlood: Are you telling me Super Mario Bros was a good movie?

[ZTF]

Now that you mention it... Batista looks kinda like Marcus....

O_o

JimElNino

@Laughtrey:
You telling me Super Mario Bros wasn't a good game with a good plot?

DemonBlood

Is cliffy waiting for motherbird to come feed him?

Anyway. If Arnie can star in several great action films I don't see how you can complain that the actors are at fault when a film like Doom flops. This is more down to shitty direction and writing.

If I was Epic I'd be more concerned with getting a capable writer and director. Wiseman manage to make a story about a story about vampires, werewolves and a hot chick in leather into a mundane chore to watch. Morgan seems to be nothing more than a screenwriter with a lot to prove.

Let's not forget Oscar winner Ben Kingsley starred in Blood Rayne. No amount of acting talent can polish a turd!

Jelster

@Reibooi: I actually think that Max Payne is gonna turn out pretty good. This looks sweet, too, though, although I wasn't a big fan of the game. I'll have to give it another going over.

AcidCrownie

Crank was as close as we will get to a good video game movie.

taftsearlobe33

Here's a start: Use a good game with a good plot and maybe it will translate into a good movie.

Laughtrey

@DemonBlood: If Batista did play the role, I'd go opening night just to scream "BATISTA BOMB! BATISTA BOMB!!! BAH GAWD!!!"

jonlerok

@Gunloc: Haha. Well I was more thinking of the T-Rex as means to express the size as a whole ;)

Candlejack

Ah, I see Cliffy has read about fanboys wanting that dude Batista to play Marcus. I still say the dude from Prison Break needs that part.

DemonBlood

What's the plot of Gears anyways? FPS(well, third person in this case) aren't exactly the perfect genre for movie adaptation.

BTW, I think Uwe Boll can be partially blamed for crap VG movies.

Baka_Survivor

But...the Rock is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment!

And am I really the only person who thought Mortal Kombat was a well made popcorn-movie...and that Street Fighter was an amazing parody of every genre known to man?

Kanik

@PJ Frost: Oh! Well those Dudes be Huge ;D "ahahaha" :p

Gunloc

Shitty game to movie adaptations are one of the constants of the universe along with time, space, and gravity. Greater men have challenged fate and failed. You will not succeed Bleszinski!

robotomasher

@Gunloc: No, I think he meant they had Tyrannosaurs for arms.

PJ Frost

@Candlejack: T-Rex's have tiny armys. I think you ment Gorrila ;)

Gunloc

@Arttemis: Same here. Throw in Will Arnett as RAAM.

jerimas

As long as "Terry Tate" still plays Cole Train, I'll be happy.

"TRIPLE T IS ALL UP IN THIS BIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!"

+ Watch video

Hahaha. I love that man.

UCB-Disco

@StupidityTries: I'd watch it.

Arttemis

You made a game about beasty T-Rex-armed spacemarines, now deal with it, Cliffy. Can't stand the hypocrisy. Buff guys fighting for the survival of humanity rarely come with a lot of charisma, there is no love interest, and it's only about war, death and destruction. Making the lead have a one dimensional personality that rivals that of Ash from Pokemon doesn't help, either.

Candlejack

I cannot see this movie being anything other than complete trash...

bighit006

Those who possess an above average talent in the dramatic arts are more than capable of becoming the voluminous meatheads sought by the game-to-film congruency police.

Send them a copy of Wii Fit together with an adequate supply of protein supplements and you have yourself an actor-wrestler hybrid - The Uruk-Hai of Hollywood.

AlbenoEpiX

I Don't know why but I think the Gears movie really might be the one to end the game movie streak. Maybe its because the people working on it seem to really like the project and know what they are doing.

Reibooi

id say charisma is one thing wrestlers have tons off besides muscles.

Detre

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Danny DiVito, and Martin Short... in that order.

StupidityTries

Because we all know there is no such thing as a pro wrestler with charisma, right?

This, from the guy who had an entrance to a press event more ridiculous than anything The Undertaker has ever done.

KaneRobot

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Lester Speight. Marcus, Dom, Baird, and Cole, in that order.

PJ Frost

I think one thing that would help the Gears of War movie adaptation be good is if it was based on a game that had a plot.

Jeff Paine

@Nickaus: That should be in the bible.

Obviously no one here saw the street fighter movie from the 90's.

shredmanifesto

Opps, I didn't mean StormTroopers... something that sounded like that.

Thedavid

-Unfortunately- It can't fail... because it's "too" cliché.
Like a StormTroopers movie, or anything else out there like that. Therefore, it wont even look like a video game movie...

Thedavid

@Guizzy:

Nothing wrong with an action movie, I've said Arnie has pulled some great movies with just grunts and man boobs to back him up. What concerns me is the director who made Vampires, werewolves and tight fitting leather into a very average film.

Average + Action = Boredom.

Jelster

Wrestler or not, WWE Raw's Batista has the look of Fenix.

Arklop

What's with the dis on comic book movies? Comic book movies did not suck for years and then finally become good when Spiderman 2 came out. CliffyB is probably about my age (I'm 29), so he ought to remember the first Superman movie with Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, and the first Tim Burton Batman movie with Jack Nicholson playing what is still the best-ever performance of the Joker.

The long and short of it is, video game movies mostly have crummy actors in them, or directors who are clearly under-utilizing the acting talent they DO have. Find a game with a good villain (alas, General RAMM is not going to cut it), sell it as a fun role to play, and get a good actor to take the part, and you've got a chance to wind up making a great movie.

rexdart007

Come on Cliffy B, you telling me you can't put Batista as Marcus Fenix?

y2julio

If only it were movie-free...

Fallible

@jonlerok: Dammit, now I want to have J.R. and Jerry Lawler to have roles in the Gears movie too.

Frank

I hope the film is good, I will admit I don't no much aout the directors, sorry but i don't watch the credits to find out who did what :P lol.

One thing is though Gears does have a lot of story/plot to it, just because the FIRST game of a rumoured trilogy doesn't show a whole stroy in one go doesn't mean there isn't one.

The film could be about Asphalt Feilds (sp?) which is why Marcus was in the slammer to begin with, which would lead us to where we are now in gears one. It could be about almost anything in the Gears universe. I hope this film is good.

Something else to, this whole charisma + wrestler business. If a wrestler has charisma so does a 360 and Ps3. So lets have consoles playing the characters,
WII is carmine enough said!

danieldrago

This is one instance in which I'd advocate the casting of pro wrestlers! Gears of War --driven solely by action and violence-- has as bare a plot as I've ever seen. A film adaptation doesn't require quality thespians. As others have duly noted, the best pro wrestlers have charisma in abundance, and little else is required to deliver the kind of one-liners we heard in the game. What the movie needs is a good director who can understand how to work with those non-actors' inexperience and edit accordingly.

rapsodist

Oh and I\d like to add that whomever they do cast as the protagonists, they certainly would have enough time to buff 'em up.

excaliburps

@rexdart007:

You listed a few outliers in a generally bad era of movies.

Look at the original Hulk movies.

The unreleased F4 movie.

Most of the Superman movies.

Every Batman BESIDES the first. (Until the new series).

Ever see Nick Fury the movie? As much as The Hoff looks like 616 Fury, man, was it bad!

And don't get me started on TV series!

I believe this could be a great movie. Gears has alot more story then people think, it just wasn't shown IN game. If this movie can help bridge between the ignorant fans who love the game for the action, and the Sci-Fi geeks who actually read deeper into the story, I'm all for it.

Besides, if all else fails I'm sure we'll get some Memes out of it. Look at Stay Alive, which was made in part to Dude Huge; Some of my all-time fav's in terms of memes right there.

You die in the game, YOU DIE FOR REAL.

Terance!

@PJ Frost: Hmm casting Ryan Reynolds as the inevitable comic relief is not bad. He's certainly buff enough for the part.

@Kanik: I think the first MK movie was good as well. Sure it was cheesy and some of it didn't make sense but I wouldn't categorize it as a train wreck either.

@DemonBlood: I think it's not really with wrestlers not having enough charisma. It's more to do with wrestlers belonging in a niche crowd. They don't want the film to be viewed as something |by wrestlers for wrestling fans". Not saying there's anything wrong with that but the target demographic is a bit more constrained that way.

@Detre: Agreed with the Dark Knight being awesome. =)

@rexdart007: I'd have to disagree on Jack being the definitive Joker. Even if Heath Ledger didn't die, it was still better. From a comic stand-point and he captured the sheer madness the Joker embodies. Sure Most of it surely came from Christopher Nolan but you can't argue Heath rocked it as the Joker.

@Thedavid: I was just going to say that as long is GoW the movie is in the same vein as say Starship Troopers,etc. Then there's a good chance it's going to be watchable.

excaliburps

Hey DUDE HUGE, if you can make a game wherein the necks of your protagonists don't equal or exceed the size of their heads, give storytelling a whirl. Til' then, don't bother, GoW 1 was the worst kind of story, that is a bad one masquerading as a good one. Or rather a bad one that thinks its a good one. It may very well have contained the most ham-fisted, overly-didactic afterschool special writing in the history of man, just being spouted by walking stereotypes with chainsaw rifles, which, by the way, detracts heavily from your "destroyed beauty" theme.

Seriously, if you want to make a Gears of War movie, get Michael Bay to direct, make some brainless action flick starring Vin Diesel and get on with your day job. You'll make a nice buck and look at it this way, you can't lower a bar that's resting on the ground.

The game was good despite its literary failings, but I must say Epic is damn lucky the NAACP didn't come crashing down on them after Cole's dialogue. "LOOK AT ALL DAT JUICE!!!"

andregalan

I hate that guy's face.

Don't know why..

xCruciaLx

NEEDS MORE GOLDBERG!!!

ColtBrennan

GoW game plot "Me am have bullet make shooty okay bye zzzz hur hur hur you am no hurty me! Me got big muscle! What alien do! Durrr... smash!"

If you can make a good movie out of this, you're a god damned satan pact maker.

otimus

Hell, lets try and get Cliffy himself into the film as Baird, he certainly has the hair for it.

And one more vote from me on having Lester Speight play Cole.

DragonNinja

Cast Batista from the WWE as Marcus, I don't watch wrestling...actually, I despise it, but this man is the perfect match. Pweaseee.

happytimeharry

Why not just make it a 3D animated movie? Save us all the trouble of trying to find real life people who can fit those rolls. Also put those voice actors to work and keep them happy.

aplusjimages

LOL at people saying acting and GOW together. How much acting ability does it take to scream into the camera, "LET'S WASTE THESE LOCUST FUCKERS!"

Yeah, uh, no.

kagai

@Reibooi: you're delusional. This movie has everything working against it. Just because you liked the game doesnt mean the movie is going to be even watchable.

Doesnt matter how much the people want it to succeed, it means nothing, these are the same people running hollywood that have no original ideas and make these movies that constantly flop at the box office. They go in to each of these films putting all they have into it, with all their passion and produce crap. Hollywood couldnt make a great movie even if they knew how.

Scott3D

It will be better than most other game to movie adaptations? So what? It will be mediocre?

jitty9

@SAGA:

He can be Carmine. Expendable.

BlackMage66652

I'm sure if they got some average sized but good actors in, they could stick them on the 300 workout, and get them super buff in no time. Uh if they do just don't make them wear loinclothes while trying to chainsaw something.

Pudgey

God of War, Gears of War and Metal Gear Solid have all good potential for a movie.

God of War is the most suitable I think.

Al87

@presidentrich:
Because workrate absolutely matters in a movie.

CommentatorHatman

@StupidityTries: i see u live up to ur name.

:P

kaskeon

I seriously doubt the guy who somehow managed to put his smoking hot wife into skintight leather and make it boring at times is going to blow my socks off with a GoW movie, whether he casts wrestlers or not.

...unless he somehow showhorns said hot wife into more leather for it. Then you can cast Marlon Wayans, Larry the Cable Guy, and Jon Heder in it and you'll still damn me to buying a ticket.

Mal-Content

Marcus=Gerard Butler...nuff said
Baird=Ron Perlman
Dom=Batista(if he could act...dont think so)
Cole=the guy who does his voice...LOL

and despite what anyone has to say, when it comes to big-budget ACTION Michael Bay has it down. That is what the movie needs to be...last time someone tried to put a super serious story in this type of genre(1st Hulk) people blasted it(Dark Knight is the exception..although that story was thin in some places).

adrean8j

@Mal-Content:

...whaat?

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

I still want Kim to be played by a bald Jackie Chan.

systech

@UCB-Disco:
Awesomesauce, that's the only word to describe it

Makidian

@Jeff Paine:

exactly, it is only based on curse and blood and to make it to the silver screen is darn hard.

xiked

@y2julio: I totally agree!!! Everytime I see him he reminds me of Gears!

goddessakasha

What would make a gears movie good would be action, not so much acting. I'm thinking, something along the lines of the warzone scene at the end of Children of Men. If they can make a Gears movie that intense, and faithful to the game, then it would be at least a fun movie. Gears shouldn't try to be emotionally poignant. It won't happen.

@Laughtrey: Have you actually played Max Payne? It and its sequel have damn good storylines. Some of the best I've seen in any game. Also, Metal Gear wouldn't work as a movie. It would have to be around 6 hours long, and nobody wants to sit in a movie theater for that long. Plus, it probably wouldn't have David Hayter's voice or the series' trademark quirkiness.

Placentasaurus

If there is any movie that needs pro-wrestlers its the gears one. I was always turned off by Gear's beefy, man-lovin', hard-ass style but at least learn to embrace what made you famous. Hell if everyone remembers gears because Marcus Fenix looks like he should be lifting weights in the olympics then get some damn beefcakes in there. CliffyB's plot sucks anyways, so i don't see how the movie can be that amazing.

MrSatan

Wiseman knows how to make great action. UW1-2 action looks great with no epileptic style camera.

adrenalinq

Baptista? Botchtista? It's BATISTA!!!!!!!!!
This movie will kick ass!!!!!!! Cliffy actually cares about what happens with the Gears movie.

mr_grimster

Yes, a movie about meatwads with tiny heads shooting aliens with chainsaw guns is going to change the way the world looks at video game movies.

Thank you for the insight, Cliff.

Koztah

Sounds like jealousy speaking for Clifford the little blonde game designer.

Honest-to-God CliffyB quote from a few years ago (circa Unreal Championship 2): "My friend is making an action movie based on me..."

I'm sure there will be no wrestlers starring in that one, either. Stunt doubles need to be closer to the frail, pre-pubescent set. Maybe there's another younger Macaulay Culkin sibling waiting in the wings, old enough to read a script yet waifish enough to fit the bill.

ViolentLee

Cliffy say:IM NOT THE CLIFFSTER!!!!

d3vilg0d

@UCB-Disco:

Break was over 15 minutes ago, BITCH!

tooji