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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Freakin’ LOTR. I thought that pop culture had finally overcome the overrated madness of the overrated movies based upon overrated books. But it’s inescapable. Take a stew-eating, pure diesel, sci-fi future, manly man game like Gears of War—it seems completely free of of stupid ring fantasies. That doesn’t sound like LOTR at all, right Cliffy B? We wanted the Locust to be intelligent savages; they’re like the Uruk-hai in LOTR, only with guns…The Uruk-hai would organise themselves, line up and then storm in – even though they look like horrible monsters. That’s what the Locust essentially are…
Freakin’ LOTR with guns? Did you really have to ruin it for me, Cliffy? Did you?? Gears: CliffyB reveals Lord of the Rings inspiration [cvg]
Len Wiseman, director of Live Free or Die Hard and both Underworld films is said to be in negotiations to direct New Line Cinema’s Gears of War film. He’s a fairly hot director at the moment, especially after building the looking-to-flop Underworld into a franchise making over $US200 million worldwide. Since I haven’t seen any of his three directed films, I’ll refrain from judgment (at least until after the jump).
I will say, however, that anyone bitching on the topic should remember that while Gears is a great game, it had a superficial, complete piece of crap storyline built upon Hollywood cliches. The only reason the IP is worth a dime outside of the gaming world is its brilliant art direction. In my eyes, no director can screw up a narrative experience that was worthless in the first place.
Which Directors Will Get to Helm Gears of War… [via aintitcoolnews]
