{"id":106819,"date":"2016-10-06T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T05:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106819"},"modified":"2016-10-06T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T05:59:45","slug":"universal-is-making-a-gears-of-war-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/106819-universal-is-making-a-gears-of-war-movie","title":{"rendered":"Universal is making a Gears of War movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal is making a movie based on the\u00a0Gears of War video game franchise, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/gears-of-war-movie-402\/\" target=\"_blank\">GameRant<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The project was announced during the Gears of War 4 livestream, which focussed on the upcoming Xbox One exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is currently known about the movie, but it has been revealed that Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark will be producing the film.<\/p>\n<p>Stuber and Clark have previously worked on\u00a0<strong>Ted<\/strong> and <strong>Planet of the Apes<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a renewed interest in video game-based movies, with films such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/92089-watch-the-first-trailer-for-the-assassins-creed-movie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/a><\/strong> also in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully these new films will put an end to the historical trend of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87756-the-best-and-worst-video-game-movies-ever-made.html\" target=\"_blank\">terrible movies<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>based on video games.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to HD vs UHD vs 4K \u2013 None of these matter, here\u2019s the screen you should get instead\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/106485-hd-vs-uhd-vs-4k-none-of-these-matter-heres-the-screen-you-should-get-instead.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">HD vs UHD vs 4K \u2013 None of these matter, here\u2019s the screen you should get instead<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The 6 best smartphones you can buy in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/105703-the-6-best-smartphones-you-can-buy-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 6 best smartphones you can buy in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Paul \u201cReDeYe\u201d Chaloner talks competitive gaming and South African eSports\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/106791-paul-redeye-chaloner-talks-competitive-gaming-and-south-african-esports.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Paul \u201cReDeYe\u201d Chaloner talks competitive gaming and South African eSports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal has officially announced a movie based on Gears of War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":106825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[31,10318,1966,13832,91,279,22559,19443],"class_list":["post-106819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-film","tag-games","tag-gears","tag-microsoft","tag-movie","tag-universal","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}