Gears of War movie gets a budget cut
July 27, 2010 at 1:28 pm
New Line Cinema has deemed Gears of War not worthy of a blockbuster sized budget. The film’s development has been bogged down with ever increasing costs that reportedly once topped the $100 million mark. It also didn’t help that director Len Wiseman dumped the project to move on to other things. According to Gears game designer Cliff Bleszinski the Gears movie is still on, but New Line wasn’t cool with the idea of a R-rated film with no love story getting summer tentpole status.
I thought the whole point of Dom’s wife Whatsherface was to pretend like Gears of War had some kind of emotional backstory. Apparently not, as Bleszinski claims the studio is going for a more District 9 mentality with the movie in response to the concern. Â D9 (which was only created because Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp couldn’t get the Halo movie greenlit; funny how that works) was a late summer sci-fi hit, rated R, and had a less than $100 million budget of $30 million dollars.
Let’s hope the Gears movie recreates that magic.
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So it seems that the New Line lawyers and execs have looked at a game replete with chainsaw kills and gunning down roided-out mutants in a blockbuster bloodbath and decided they want the usual kiddied-down PG13 filth to get greenlit, full of “gosh-darns” and “aw geez!” moments instead of what Hudson pioneered in 1986’s Aliens. (Yes, I know that wasn’t a game movie–but it showed what sci-fi monster killing action can be in its most glorious form.) Ah, yes don’t forget the love story. Gotta have the guy get the girl. WTF.
It’s sad how the movie industry works these days. Sad and infuriating. This project should be a steal, considering the fanbase the games have. But no… leave it to the twinks in suits , lawyers and execs who’ve never even been behind a camera or watched a movie for fun to get their savvy “intuition” going and great projects get axed while I’m sure the next sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop is hot in development. Makes me sick.
Why must the powers-that-be meddle so incompetently. If some gifted writer suddenly comes up with a searing script about the struggles of a ten-year-old white autistic boy, a script that just screams Academy Award… the suits will nudge their soft, pampered asses into the mix and try to get Denzel for the part, then complain and bicker with the actual creative forces behind the movie on why of why can’t we get Denzel. Did you read the script, Mr. Executive? What does that have to do with anything, Mr. Director?.
Len Wiseman is a fantastic director. Probably won’t ever win an Oscar, but I don’t think he’s going for that anyway. And that attitude lets him craft exciting slam-bang action movies with great visuals and entertaining characters. He’s also a gamer. And he loves Gears. If anyone could do it, he could. But–wait, what’s that? Oh, right. Marcus needs to cry into his battle-mike about how he loves Anya and will make it back to her. F— sake.
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