Looks as though Gears of War will take the giant sucking hole left by the absence of a Halo movie and stuff it full of gun powder and alien guts. Huzzah!

From Variety:

New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft's hugely popular vidgame "Gears of War" with Stuart Beattie writing and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner.

CAA conducted the auction, which featured a 21 page treatment by Beattie, who wrote "Collateral" and "Derailed."

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