CliffyB talks Gears of War movie
Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 10/04/2007 at 12:22PM CDT by Billy Wang, Previews Editor
GameDaily BIZ sat down with Epic Games' CliffyB and chatted up the upcoming Gears of War movie. The range of questions discussed includes CliffyB's thoughts on the Halo movie, his impressions about film studio New Line and his opinions on green screens.
First, with the Halo movie still on hiatus, CliffyB proudly exclaimed that the Gears movie is moving along but that he would ultimately like to see the Halo movie done as well. He admits that even though Halo clearly has the #1 recognizable presence in gaming now, people would like to see the Gears movie because of its story and characters.
"I would love to see a Halo movie. You have the number one most recognizable character right now for gamers, which is Master Chief. I think in some ways Gears excites me as a movie because you have these actual characters and faces and they have their own personalities."
Next, regarding Epic Games' decision to partner up with New Line for the Gears movie, CliffyB said the partnership was clearly going to happen. My guess is that New Line sees lots of potential moneybags for the movie.
"Partnering with New Line on the movie is like partnering with Microsoft on Gears...New Line, having done Lord of the Rings, they know how to back a very risky but also a potentially very lucrative franchise and make sure it's treated with the respect it deserves."
Lastly, CliffyB talked about his opinions about the use of green screens in films and Hollywood's aversion to "R" rated movies. He quickly discloses that fans won't have to worry about a less than a R rating for the Gears movie.
"That's a budget concern that they did 300 for $60 million in front of green screens in Montreal and it was a huge success. My concern is that Hollywood has this love-hate relationship with rated R movies... The fact that Gears is an M-rated franchise and involves people getting chainsawed in half, it's got to be a pretty f***ing hardcore movie."
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"people would like to see the Gears movie because of its story"
Or lack thereof. For a movie that amount of story would be OK, but for a 6 hour game there isn't enough substance to the story. They had something going with Fenix's father somehow knowing the tunnel system that the Locust used, but didn't go along with it. The Locust just attacked when Immulsion was starting to be used in large quantities, but the question is, why would the Locust care if humans used the Immulsion?
They fleshed out the characters very well, but the backstory of the world and the Humans vs Locust war weren't there.
If Peter Jackson and New Line kissed and made up, New Line would of had a great one, two punch with his Halo movie and (insert director's name) Gears movie
I think that the script writers for Gears will add alot more to the story. and hopefully devise an original story with fragments of the game sprinkled in when needed. If they follow the game to a tee, it will not work at all.