Gears of War Trilogy

Not talking about the games here (which there are two), but of forthcoming movies.

Bloody Disgusting had the chance to catch up with Len Wiseman on the Re Carpet premiere of "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" and they discussed his next project, "Gears of War."

“I’m writing 'Gears Of War' with Chris Morgan, who wrote 'Wanted,'” Wiseman said to BD before explaining that he wasn’t much of a gamer until he saw GOW in his movie Live Free Or Die Hard.

“I suck at video games, it just takes me too long and I can’t get the coordination of ‘em. When I was on '[Live Free Or] Die Hard,' I had to choose some video game for the background in a scene with Kevin Smith. I was shown about a dozen games and told to ‘Choose one to be in the background’ and I said ‘this one looks really, really cool whatever it is,’ and it was Gears Of War. I just really connected with it; the design of it the world, the whole thing. So I actually brought an Xbox 360 to start researching what it was.”

For the first time ever, Wiseman talked about his plans for adapting the franchise.

“It’s going to be much more [on the] science fiction side of it than the creature side of it. I’ve always been much more of a sci-fi action fan than a horror fan,” he reveals also explaining that he wants the scope of the film to be told over the course of three films! “The hope is that were wanting to do a three movies and really cover the bases on everything. Basically a harder edged 'Lord Of The Rings.'”

While Wiseman doesn’t say the films will be in 3-D, he does admit that he’s interesting in the new technology. “Yeah, I think about [3D technology] quite a bit,” he continues, “the more and more I get involved with these movies and the bigger they are the more you rely on CG effects to help you out. And you can do it properly; I’ve been a big fan of practical work and still am, it’s finding a way to incorporate them together.”

While I think "Gears of War" will make a great movie (if done like the game), a trilogy might not work out. There are only two games, so where are they going to get the material? Are they going to make stuff up? Turns out that doesn't work well when it comes to game adaptations.
Also, I believe 3-D would be a bad idea. Right now the technology is only a gimmick. Wait until December and see how well "Avatar" does, then we will talk.

We will have to wait and see with more news to come! Catch ya' later!