Netflix and Microsoft are teaming up to make a live-action movie and an animation of the Gears of War series.
according to the latest Cinema and TV news, several adaptations based on the Gears of War series are in the works. Netflix has announced that it is developing a live-action movie and an adult animated series from the Gears of War game series to celebrate its 16th anniversary in collaboration with Microsoft and Coalition Studios. Netflix also added that there is the possibility of more stories being told in the sci-fi franchise and the popular Xbox shooter, but no further information is available at this time.
The first Gears of War game was released in 2006 for the Xbox 360 and followed the story of a group of soldiers known as Delta Squad who were fighting an invasion of Locusts. Marcos Phoenix and Dominic Santiago, nicknamed Dom, were the players in control, and Augustus Cole and Damon Bird were other members of this team. Next, we saw the release of Gears of War 2 in 2008, Gears of War 3 in 2011, and Gears of War: Judgment in 2013.
Further, in 2014, Epic Games decided to sell the IP rights of Gears of War to Microsoft, and since then, the coalition has been in control of this collection. After that, this studio released the game Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, which was a remaster of the first part, in 2015, the game Gears of War 4 in 2016, the game Gears 5 in 2019 and the game Gears Tactics in 2020, and now in The new episode of Gears of War is being made.
According to Microsoft, more than 40 million copies of the Gears of War game series have been sold so far, and this game is one of the most popular game series on the Xbox console. The news of making a movie based on this series of games has been heard for years and in 2007, New Line Cinema received the rights to make a movie of this series. After that, Universal hired F. Scott Frazier in 2018 to start making Gears of War, which was never made.
