New Line has announced it has won the feature film rights to the game Gears Of War. Although Epic Games, owners of the “Gears of War” brand, are yet to announce an official announcement of the sequel to the popular video game, we can see the release of the game and the movie happening around the same time. Epic has created an extensive backstory for the game in hopes that a movie production company would pick it up, and may eventually even lead to novels.

Screenwriter for the Gears of War movie is supposedly Stuart Beattie, who also wrote “Collateral”. Gears lead designer Cliff Bleszinski will be producing the film and keeping an eye on the production for Epic. New Line is hoping to release a Gears of War movie by the summer of 2009.

With the announcement of a Gears movie now confirmed, let us know who would you like to see cast to star in the film? — Andrew Dobrow

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