And the winner of the next sure-to-be-horrible videogame film adaptation is… Microsoft’s mega-selling Gears of War. (Reviewed by yours truly a few months back right here.) Dude who’s writing the adaptation also wrote Collateral and contributed to the Pirates of the Caribbean scripts. Gears is an intensely cinematic game to begin with—it’s actually kind of jaw-dropping how the camera angles and storytelling ape some of the best parts of great action/sci-fi films—so it’ll be interesting to see how this turns out. (Chances are still 99.99 percent it will be horrible.) But christ, I wish they’d stop forcing games into movies. It only ends up making everybody look bad.

Tip o’ the hat to Kotaku.