The drums of the battle sound (or, even, even, the war gears are spinning) for live adaptation of the video game with Gears of War. The game series began in 2006, and has a new installment, "Gears of War: E-Day", which has just been announced to be in development last year. While the games did not show signs of stopping, the prospect of The film adaptation of the series is obsessed for almost as long as the series existedWith the new Line Line Cinema it has its rights back in 2007. The adaptation then went through the rotating list of directors, screenwriters and study over the years before ending up in Netflix in 2022.

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Now, finally, it seems that the game of potential directors' music chairs has stopped, directing duties on David Leic, whom The Hollywood reporter says he is in talks to use the movie "Gears of War". If this deal is made, Leich and his production partner (and also wife!) Kelly McCormick will produce the film through their 87th company in connection with the coalition, the video game company that she owns and manages the game series. Jonon Spaits, a screenwriter who worked at Prometheus, "Dr. Stringed", and Dunis Vilnev's "Duna" duology will penetrate the script.

Although no further details are available, only this small announcement seems to be quite poorly promising for Gears of War. For one thing, it makes it much more likely that the film version will finally be done, which is a victory for the property given its decades of gestation. For another, Leic's attachment is encouraging for the fans of the game and the fans of the action cinema in general, because his (and 87Nth's) shooting style is not only sanctified and victory, but also not so sumptuous that the film should be in danger again.

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The Gears of War plot is the one that seems to borrow extravagance with large budgets. In the Games, a soldier with the name of Marcus Phoenix, leading a team of elite killers known as Delta in the middle, must fight for the future of humanity It is a kind of setting that would look like a cat on the likes of Michael Bay, Jamesesheims Cameron or Ridley Scott, directors whose attraction for great and out of the screen is now the things of the legend. Although Netflix is ​​seemingly bullish when it turns Gears of War into multiple franchise for the service, they plan to watch the movie live with an animated series, and then further projects after that Leic's choice talks about a harm to the film.

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Leic and his 87 -year -old smoke Stahelski were instrumental in the US Revolution in Cinema Action Cinema, launched with Johnon Wick in 2014, and they have ever been individually to make and produce a series of action films that do not have to be blockbusters. With "Deadpool 2" and "Hobbs & Shaw", Leic has proven that he can take an existing series and continue his success as he does. With Last year's "autumn man", He even proved that he could resurrect an old IP and apply it with charm, freshness and beliefs. As McCormick told me in an interview of 2022She and Leich are primarily interested in maintaining cannon and live -style action films, films that are at least a little modest in scope and budget, while sacrificing none of their action or influence.

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All this means that, although Netflix has become notorious about its spending habits, Gears of War, directed by Leic, is likely to be able to bring the volume and visceral feeling needed to adapt to work, let alone. It's an exciting perspective, so for the fans of games and actions/scientific/horror films, we hope that Leich's marriage and "Gears" actually stick.