Live Free Or Die Hard director
Len Wiseman is helming the Gears movie and co-writing it with Fast & Furious
scribe Chris Morgan. And yes, Wiseman is not a gamer, but a grabber. Admitting
that he 'sucks' at video games, Wiseman (pictured, with friend) happened on
Gears when he was asked to select a video game to appear the background of a
scene while making Live Free or Die Hard. "I said 'this one looks really, really
cool whatever it is,' and it was Gears Of War," explains Wiseman. "I just really
connected with it; the design of it the world, the whole thing. So I actually
brought an Xbox 360 to start researching what it was." Wiseman says he's more of
a sci-fi fan and less of a horror one and will focus more on the science fiction
element. That being said, he added he hopes to make Gears of War like The Lord
of the Rings fantasy films. "The hope is that were wanting to do a three movies
and really cover the bases on everything," says Wiseman. "Basically a harder
edged Lord Of The Rings." The first film's due in 2010. There's nothing
else available on it at the moment.
