The SDCC is proving to be a great source of information on various areas of video game news including breathing new hope into lost causes like the movie adaptation of Gears of War. A panel at the Comic-con which was presented by Len Wiseman (the director who was first linked to the movie), has spurned new interest in what was thought of as a doomed project.

Wiseman along with writer Chris Morgan were willing to give some insight into possibilities for the project. Various questions relating to casting and plot were answered:

Wiseman on the (rumored) casting of wrestlers to play CoGs:

[INDENT] “I’m look­ing for an actor for the role and then [I’ll] put him into shape”, adding “I’m always think­ing who could play the best Mar­cus. You want to get hooked into the char­ac­ter [first] and then all the amaz­ing spectacle.”

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