Gears of War Movie Back to Script Work

Gears of War 3 might be on track to come out on the expected dates in April 2011 but it seems that the Gears of War movie, that fans have been waiting for since the first video game became an instant success on the Xbox gaming platform, is having some issues at the moment. Reports from Comic Con say that Cliff Bleszinski is now aiming to get more work done on the script of the movie and make sure that the changes bring down the estimated cost of about 100 million dollars.

It seems that the current change was a direct result of previous director Len Wiseman leaving the project. The script he was working off was closer to 2012 than to a straight action flick and Bleszinski, the creative mind behind the Gears of War trilogy, says that he is more interesting in making a movie that feels like District 9, the out of nowhere science fiction hit that arrived during the summer of 2009. The initial cost of the movie meant that many studios, maybe fearful of getting another video game to movie flop, were reluctant to actually green light the development.

Gears of War 3 was first show during the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where an official trailer was first shown and the developers at Epic Games quickly confirmed reports that the game would be out in April 2011. The developers have also announced that the third game in the series would offer gamers a four player cooperative mode, encouraging them to work together in order to get through the story element of the game.

New characters, two of them female, will be introduced and the game will aim to answer most of the questions fans have about the Gears of War world. There will also be new weapons and new mutated enemies and the multiplayer will allow gamers to play as the Locust against a human team.