Gears of War was a great game, as I remember. It originally came out in 2006, nearly twenty years ago now, man I feel old. It’s one of those games that had a decent story, which would have made a good movie.
Since 2006, there have been 9 sequels and spin-offs. In fact, they are working on a new game at the moment. I swapped my Xbox in for a PlayStation a few years back, and Gears of War is an Xbox exclusive.
The main protagonist for Gears of War is Fenix, a Coalition of Ordered Governments soldier, fighting his way through the Locus Horde. One person who’s always wanted to play Fenix is Dave Bautista. He recently said:
“Start an online thing about freaking Gears of War. Come on, Netflix. Come on already. It’s not like I’m not badgering them. Come on, Netflix. Get it together.”
According to Bautista, he had met with Warner Brothers, but they wanted other projects for him, including Bane. He went on to say:
“I don’t make any pretense about it. I had a chance to get a meeting at WB, they were talking to me about this and that and I said, ‘Hey, let’s talk about Bane. That happened to me one other time in my career. They wanted to talk to me about Fast and the Furious, and I said ‘I’m not interested, let’s talk about Marcus Fenix…”
Bautista turning down a Fast and Furious movie! There’s a joke in there somewhere. Talks of a Gears of War movie have been circling since 2022, but it seems like Bautista really is interested in making it.