Gears of War on the Big Screen
No, don’t get your hopes up there is no announcement for a Gears of War movie… yet. But this will do for now. This summer Microsoft is putting out the big bucks and pulling a similar marketing move like they did with Halo 2. They will be showing Gears of War teaser trailers during the big summer movies rated R. That means there is a good chance that the trailer wont be censored in any way, and will be presented in glorius 5.1 surround sound!
Here is a list of current films slated to be getting some Gears of War trailer action:
- Miami Vice
- Pulse
- A Scanner Darkly
- Clerks 2
- Little Miss Sunshine
With A Scanner Darkly opening in limited release this weekend, there is a chance the trailer will be attached the film already. So if anyone catches that movie this weekend, be sure to let us know how the trailer looked. I may not be able to catch it until July 28th when it goes into wider release the same weekend as Clerks 2.
Hopefully Microsoft will also do a nationwide theatre preview tour of the game like they did with Halo 2. That was a great event for those of us who made it out. When is fragging on the big screen not a blast?
Thanks to Epic Games‘s President Mike Capps over at Epic Games Forums for letting us know and for binford04 in our forums for the headsup.
[...] In what could be the most brilliant and unobvious, for those not following the game, promotional tie-in in the course of history brings Gears of War to a theatre near you. It seems when I made a suggestion for them to do this back in July someone listened. [...]