It looks like the long-rumored Gears of War movie is officially moving forward! The film was officially announced during a livestream for the upcoming Gears of War 4, with Rod Fergusson, studio head of The Coalition telling Variety, “As a way to support the franchise the next logical step was to make the movie. We’d done comics and novels in the past but the opportunity to work with Universal to bring the movie to life was perfect.”
Fergusson also commented on what kind of story the film will tell, explaining, “I think you have to let the movies be the movies. They’re two different mediums, and two different audiences in some cases, and I think some video game movies in the past have failed because they tried to make a movie for gamers. If you have this great IP with a deep backstory and lots of lore that you can make interesting stories out of it’s great, but if you just go after the gaming audience then it isn’t going to be a successful movie.”
Universal is behind the game-to-film adaptation, which will be produced by Scott Stuber (Ted) and Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the Apes).
No further details have been released.