{"id":5717,"date":"2010-04-07T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gears-of-war-movie-faces-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5717-gears-of-war-movie-faces-budget-cuts","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War movie faces budget cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>According to the LA Times the movie based on Epic Games&rsquo; Xbox 360 smash hit Gear of War has hit the skids.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests that both the scope of the film and its budget have been scaled back considerably and that the project &#8220;has really slowed down&#8221;. In addition to this Director Lee Wiseman of Underworld fame is reportedly moving on to another project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The studio has now cut the budget, going from a film that would have cost more than $100 million to one that will cost a good chunk less than that. It&#8217;s also reined in the story, turning it into a more simple, straight-ahead invasion story instead of a sprawling epic&rdquo; said the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Inside sources are also reporting that the film will require a new writer and perhaps a new director before it hits the big screen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film based on Epic Games smash hit not looking good<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}