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Couples Watch: Christina Applegate's Cozy Shopping Spree
22 December 2009 3:00 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
• Christina Applegate had a loving shopping partner - boyfriend Martyn Lenoble - as she explored The Grove, the outdoor mall in West Hollywood. The actress, who was casually dressed in a headband and boots, held hands with her musician beau as they stopped into the Gap, the American Girl Place store and Nordstrom. Also shopping at the Grove that day: Kate Beckinsale, who brought along director hubby Len Wiseman and daughter Lily as she stopped into Forever 21 and the American Girl Place, among other shops. »
In Pictures: 'Kate Beckinsale and Len Wiseman Do Some Late Shopping'
21 December 2009 1:39 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Last minute shoppers Kate Beckinsale and husband Len Wiseman shop at Kitson on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles. Photo copyright by Fame Pictures. Last minute shoppers Kate Beckinsale and husband Len Wiseman shop at Kitson on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles. Photo copyright by Fame Pictures. Last minute shoppers Kate Beckinsale and husband Len Wiseman shop at Kitson on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles. Photo copyright by Fame Pictures. »
- James Wray
Icm Axes MP Literary Agent Nick Reed
18 December 2009 1:50 PM, PST | Deadline Hollywood | See recent Deadline Hollywood news »
He used to co-head Icm's motion picture lit department until 2008 when Nicole Clemens was put in sole charge. The agency is working to "transition" his clients Len Wiseman, Stephen Moyer, Steven Seagal and Ben Barnes, which means Icm is hoping to keep all of them even though he'll be gone. Word is Nick Reed will try to become a producer. »
- Nikki Finke
Cassar to Protect 'Motorcade'
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
I've been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down. - I've been keeping tags on Motorcade since I heard the project being pitched as an In the Line of Fire meets Black Hawk Down. Billy Ray's script would be featured on the Black List, and with DreamWorks waiting for their Paramount divorce to finalize, I imagine the project collected some dust. Variety reports that Jon Cassar (from television's 24) will replace Len Wiseman in the director's chair and Ryan Reynolds is now the leading frontman for the role of the disgraced Secret Service agent who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time when the U.S. president is kidnapped in New York. Cassar has directed fifty-plus episodes Jack Bauer's misadventures - the high octane experience will certainly help with he format for this spec. »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
Gears of War Movie an Origin Story?
10 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
In June 2008, New Line Cinema officially announced Len Wiseman (Underworld, Die Hard 4) as their director pick for a Gears of War movie scheduled for 2010. The news came on the heels of the wildly popular video game by Epic Games, which produced a second in November 2008 that sold two million copies on its release weekend.
The trick for the movie, like most video game adaptations, is to find a story worth telling amidst the slick gameplay, rich alien world, and grenade explosions. Events in the first game unfold on the fictional planet of Sera, where humans battle an underground race called the Locust, and the second picks up six months later. Wiseman suggested in January this could even become a trilogy of sorts, a sci-fi Lord of the Rings style epic.
Championing the game-to-movie project from the beginning has been producer Wyck Godfrey, who also worked behind the scenes on the record-breaking Twilight Saga: New Moon. »
- Jeff Leins
Cast This: Marcus Fenix
10 December 2009 4:20 AM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
So we got a little bit of info on the upcoming Gears Of War movie this week. It wasn’t much, as it said the film is a prequel and is “more like Cloverfield or something like that,” but it’s enough to inspire me to write this week’s Cast This column, as I think the film may start being cast soon. I do firmly believe that Gears Of War could be a great movie, if done correctly, but I’m unsure of director Len Wiseman’s (Live »
- Paul Tassi
Are We Getting Gears of War: Origins?
9 December 2009 7:03 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Video game fans will be happy to hear that the big screen adaptation of Xbox 360 game Gears of War is moving along nicely. Recently the gang over at Making Of sat down with producer Wyck Godfrey for 51 seconds of updates about what we can expect from the over-the-shoulder shooter turned guaranteed box office smash. The awesomely named producer drops the name Len Wiseman, who will probably be stepping into the director's chair. Wiseman is the mastermind behind the Underworld franchise, and director of the latest outing of everyone's favorite foul-mouthed NYPD cop John McClane, Live Free or Die Hard. Regardless of how you feel about any of those movies, Wiseman seems to have a pretty good eye for action, which let's face it, is the Only requirement needed to put together a decent Gears of War film. Godfrey also said that diving right into the blood, guts, and ugly-ass aliens »
Gears Of War: The Movie?
9 December 2009 4:48 AM, PST | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Game to film adaptations are notorious for being shit. From complete wastes of money (Tomb Raider). To the downright depressing (Street Fighter). To what the hell were they thinking? (Super Mario Bros).
Now with Bioshock deemed way too expensive and nobody having the collateral to support Halo the world turns to Gears Of War to break the trend.
It would be way to easy to make Gears Of War as a straight-up action film. The game essentially consists of killing one group of aliens after another. The plot is paper-thin but that’s what makes the game so enjoyable. It seems producer Wyck Godfrey wants a bit more depth than that and is currently talking about the potential of the film as an origins story.
He is very keen to focus on a time hinted at in the game known as “Emergence Day”. This term refers to the beginning of »
- Alex Wagner
Gears Of War Game Plot Too Depressing For A Movie
9 December 2009 4:01 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
There’s a “Gears Of War” movie adaptation on the way, directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld) and produced by the awesomely named Wyck Godfrey. Good old Wyck believes that the main storyline of Gears, where nasty burrowing termite creatures packing heat dig themselves up out of their subterranean lairs to pew pew and maybe feast on nice human colonists on a planet far, far away, is a little too depressing for current events. “Gears of War” really takes place after aliens pop out of the ground and centers around a small squad of hardened soldiers as they try to stay alive in the urban wasteland that remains. Wyck would like to see and film the popping part. Less depressing. Wyck on Gears. The hard part is how to make it into something that doesn’t feel like a world torn asunder and people just in battle. I think we really »
- endymi0n
Gears of War Movie to Be an Origin Story? Possibly Taking Place on Emergence Day
8 December 2009 10:25 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
"Emergence Day" should be a term familiar to Gears of Wars fans already, and it looks like movie fans may become very familiar with it. The term refers to that day that the series' subterranean villains, the Locusts, started to wage war against humanity. Making Of recently spoke with producer Wyck Godfrey, who spilled some details on their current plans for the Len Wiseman-directed Gears film. Apparently, they're currently trying to decide if the movie should take place in the time period of the games---in a war-torn post-Emergence Day world---or, if they should start off earlier and depict a peaceful time that's shattered by the events of Emergence Day. Godfrey's full quote, after the break. The hard part is how to make it into something that doesn’t feel like a world torn asunder and people just in battle. I think we really want to focus on the idea »
- Devindra Hardawar
Story of Gears of War Movie Not Following Games?
8 December 2009 9:22 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve not heard too much about the anticipated live-action adaptation of the Gears of War video game franchise, but way back in February Screen Rant reported that Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) would be directing the Gears of War feature film and co-writing the screenplay alongside Chris Morgan (Wanted, Fast & Furious).
Unfortunately, Wiseman also said he knows little about video games himself – A red flag considering all video game movies tend to fall short in quality because movie studios cannot/do not replicate and/or recognize the important parts of a video game, its story and the experience it generates.
Much more recently, in October we found out that Billy Ray, who wrote State of Play and Breach, is writing the Gears of War script for New Line and that was the last we heard… until now.
Speaking to MakingOf, producer Wyck Godfrey revealed some hints »
- Rob Keyes
Small 'Gears of War' Movie Update
8 December 2009 9:04 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
We have to be on the cusp of a great era of video game movies. I simply can't believe that with all the mistakes that have been made over the years, and with all the upcoming projects in the genre, things finally have to turn around. They just have to. Halo is still out there, Warcraft has Sam Raimi's attention, Call of Duty has had its name copyrighted for future movie use (it's a start), and then there's Gears of War.
This started going down the same road of a lot of its predecessors; Brett Ratner was attached to direct at one point, and who wants that? But it's kind of turned around, in my mind, at least, with the hiring of director Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard). But we're still a while away from seeing this in theaters, part of a wave of big movie adaptations of video games. »
- Colin Boyd
The Story For Gears of War Movie
8 December 2009 8:59 PM, PST | GameRant | See recent GameRant news »
We’ve not heard too much about the anticipated live-action adaptation of the Gears of War franchise, but way back in February Screen Rant reported that Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) would be directing the Gears of War feature film and co-writing the screenplay alongside Chris Morgan (Wanted, Fast & Furious).
Unfortunately, Wiseman also said he knows nothing about video games – A big red flag considering all video game movies tend to suck because movie studios can’t/don’t replicate the important parts of a video game.
In October, Screen Rant then found out that Billy Ray, who wrote State of Play and Breach is writing the Gears of War script for New Line and that was the last we heard… until now.
Speaking to MakingOf, producer Wyck Godfrey revealed some hints as to what story elements will be the focus of the adaptation.
Watch and see »
- Rob Keyes
Gears of War talk
8 December 2009 3:02 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
A movie based on Epic Games' smash videogame franchise Gears Of War has been gearing up (ahem) for a while, with Len Wiseman (Live Free Or Die Hard, Underworld) directing the galactic ground war. The project is slowly grinding forward, although it sounds like they're still trying to figure out how to approach the material. As producer Wyck Godfrey tells Making Of, it sounds like they basically want to make a prequel to the games: "The hard part is to make it into something that doesn't »
- Dave Davis
Producer Says That 'Gears Of War' Will Focus On The War's Origin Story
8 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
If any video game has the potential to translate fantastically to the big screen, it's "Gears of War." The fan-favorite science fiction shoot-'em-up has all of the ingredients you could possibly want — a vicious and visceral world filled with equally eye-grabbing creatures, weaponry, technology and all sorts of other visual wonders that would hold an audience's attention for a two-hour runtime.
Of course, everything comes down to how the movie itself gets made. We already know that Len Wiseman has taken the director gig. We also know that Chris Morgan and Billy Ray have both pitched in on the script. What isn't entirely known, however, is the film's specific story.
Thanks to producer Wyck Godfrey, the plot for "Gears of War" is coming into sharper focus. Godfrey told Making Of that the movie will break away from the video game by showcasing the origin story of the conflict between man and Locust. »
- Josh Wigler
'Gears of War' Producer Doesn't Want to Tell the "Epic Story"
8 December 2009 6:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The smash-hit Xbox 360 game Gears of War, which was optioned by New Line Cinema for a film adaptation back in 2007, is ostensibly known for two things: 1) you can cut other players - most of whom are going to be pimply faced, high-pitch voiced tweenagers who are all-too-eager to hump your digital corpse - in half with a chainsaw, creating in the process a glorious fountain of blood and revenge, and 2) you play the key savior of an entire planet in the midst of its death throes at the 'hands' of an alien race called the Locust. Both of those things can quite easily be referred to, at least by gamer standards, as epic, and yet that's not what one of the film's producers, wants to bring to the big screen.
In an interview with MakingOf (found via IGN), Wyck Godfrey revealed that he's been developing the project with Live Free or Die Hard »
- Peter Hall
Producer Wyck Godfrey reveals "Gears of War" tone to MakingOf
7 December 2009 4:51 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
link: http://makingof.com/happening_now/media/gears-of-war/wyck-godfrey-reveals-gears-of-war-details/222/843
Producer Wyck Godfrey took a break from talking "Twilight" to reveal the direction the highly anticipated "Gears of War" movie is headed. In this exclusive conversation with MakingOf, Godfrey describes his vision for the video game adaptation as being like "Cloverfield". He further explains "we really want to focus on a world that's running well and then it's Emergence Day." During this interview he also mentions director Len Wiseman and describes how he pitched the hit video game's creators.
To watch the full interview - click here »
'Underworld' Gets New Writing Blood
22 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
A veteran TV writer has been hired to re-energize the 'Underworld' franchise.
John Hlavin, who has written for TV shows including The Shield and Daybreak, and is currently developing a Western screenplay called The Gunslinger at Warner Bros., has been hired to write the fourth Underworld film, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog.
The series revolves around an ongoing war between vampires and werewolves, although the last installment was a prequel. Hlavin would not disclose the plot of the next film, but said it definitely will not go the prequel route. "It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences, meaning that we don't want to redo the first three movies, so steps are being taken to honor what fans have loved but at the same time introduce fresh elements," he said.
Honoring what longtime Underworld "fans have loved" might mean bringing back Kate Beckinsale, »
John Hlavin to write 'Underworld 4'
22 November 2009 3:34 PM, PST | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
John Hlavin, whose credits include "The Shield" and "Trust Me," is on board to write "Underworld 4," the latest installment in the popular series that began with Len Wiseman's "Underworld" in 2003.
Hlavin told Heat Vision that plot details will remain secret for a while. However, he said "Underworld 4" won't be a prequel. "It will satisfy old fans and excite new audiences...," he said.
Kate Becksinale said last year she probably won't return for another film. Her appearance in a fourth film has been rumored for a while though, but no official deals are in place at this stage. »
- Franck Tabouring
"Shield" Scribe Pens Fourth ""Underworld"
22 November 2009 2:22 PM, PST | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
"The Shield" writer John Hlavin will pen the script for a fourth "Underworld" at Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment reports Heat Vision. While Hlavin won't give away details on the storyline, he does confirm it's not a prequel and it should "introduce fresh elements" as the filmmakers don't want to redo the first three films. No director or stars like Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen or Rhona Mitra have signed to return. Len Wiseman, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg and Richard Wright are producing. »
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