Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski feels strongly about director Zack Snyder helming the adaptation of the Xbox shooter. In the late 2000s, as video games really entered a new era thanks to significant evolutions in storytelling and graphical fidelity, Hollywood became increasingly interested in adapting all of the big franchises. Uncharted, Halo, Gears of War, and many others all had films in development, but many of them died out for various reasons.
Earlier this year, Zack Snyder noted that Gears of War was brought up within his circle as a potential project for him to adapt and Netflix is currently developing a film based on the game. Since then, fans have been speculating if Snyder would take on the project after wrapping up his new set of films, Rebel Moon. ComicBook.com interviewed Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski about his new comic book, Scrapper, and spoke about a wide range of subjects.
"To be frank, I think Zack Snyder is an amazing director when he is working with existing IP. I think when he did, I think it was the Dawn of the Dead remake, some of his superhero movies, when he did 300. As an adaptation, 300 defined a whole genre of , the slow-mo and the fast pans. Army of the Dead, I turned off halfway through, I thought it was terrible. That's right, I said it. But his fans are rabid as hell and the thing is, I think he'd be a great fit for it.
Bleszinski also reiterated his desire to see Dave Bautista play Marcus Fenix, noting the actor has proven himself both in his wrestling career and his tremendous acting career. "I used to say back in the day, that I didn't want a big wrestler to play Marcus Fenix. And then I had the epiphany of years back, wrestlers are not only athletes, they're actors. We had that epiphany in the eighties. We're like, 'Wait a minute, this might be staged.' But they're still messing up their bodies and having to work out tremendously, and possibly be on HGH and steroids and whatnot. Dave Batista man, the dude dressed up in Gears armor online.