Universal Revives the Gears of War Movie Project

Hollywood is determined to make a good video game movie. It’s bound to happen at some point. Some movies that aren’t based on video games use the conventions of video games in their storytelling or visual aesthetic. Edge of Tomorrow featured a character who would restart a time loop upon dying, something that happened a lot due to his encounters with deadly aliens over and over again, which is similar to how many video games will start you over at a checkpoint upon entering a fail state. Wreck-it-Ralph was Toy Story, but with video game characters.

But actual video game movies have a notoriously bad track record. Even financially successful video game movies, such as the Resident Evil series, haven’t enjoyed critical acclaim that people would like. But with Hollywood executives always looking for viable properties to turn into films, decades of failure don’t seem determined to slow them down. Even after going into development hell, the Gears of War movie has been revived by Universal. If you don’t know the games, it’s really buff guys fighting aliens.

So far, the only people attached to the project are Dylan Clark and Scott Stuber, who produced Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Central Intelligence, respectively.