Producer Dylan Clark teases that Gears of War movie updates are coming soon and expresses his passion in bringing the action franchise to screen. Originally created by Epic Games and developed by The Coalition, the third-person shooter games center on humanity's epic conflict with a subterranean race of alien reptilians known as the Locus Horde on the planet of Sera, with a primary focus on Marcus Fenix and his team's various missions to destroy the enemy. Following the original Gears of War trilogy, the story revolves around Marcus' son JD and his friends 25 years later as they are confronted with a new version of the Locust Horde and the totalitarian Coalition of Ordered Governments.
First launching in 2006, the Gears of War franchise has been a critical and commercial hit for The Coalition and Microsoft, who acquired the rights from Epic Games in 2014 after the conclusion of the original trilogy. The titles have made a name for themselves with their emphasis on cover-based combat and unique weaponry, namely the Lancer Assault Rifle with a mounted chainsaw bayonet. Thanks to this success, the Gears of War franchise has expanded to various other mediums, including a board game, comics and books, though one medium has yet to explore the sci-fi action world.
While speaking with The Digital Fix for the hotly anticipated The Batman, producer Dylan Clark opened up about the long-gestating Gears of War movie adaptation. Though unable to share any details about what's to come from the film, Clark did tease that public updates could be coming soon.
Development on the Gears of War movie has become one of the more infamous examples of a development hell project in Hollywood, having first began in 2007 when New Line Cinema acquired the rights to the franchise and attaching Collateral's Stuart Beattie to write and Underworld's Len Wiseman to direct.
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