It goes without saying that videogame-to-movie adaptations rarely ever deliver what gamers want. But considering Epic’sGears of Waralready plays out like an interactive, wild f**king action movie, I’m cautiously optimistic about seeing the game on screen.
Horror Web siteBloody Disgustingcaught up with the film’s director, Len Wiseman, at the red carpet premiere ofUnderworld: Rise of the Lycans. The director was more than happy to talk about the in-developmentGears of Warfilm.
“It’s going to be much more [on the] science fiction side of it than the creature side,” he explains. “I’ve always been much more of a sci-fi action fan than a horror fan.”
This is good news, seeing as howGears of Warisn’t, you know, a horror game. Wiseman says he’s writing the film’s script withWantedscribe Chris Morgan, with the plans calling for a trilogy.
“Basically a harder edgedLord of the Rings,” he adds.
Considering Peter Jackson’s films picked up Oscars left and right, and most people have to get high to sit through an entire vidoegame film, I’d say Wiseman has a tough job ahead of him.
