David Leitch is in negotiations to direct a feature adaptation of the hit video game, Gears Of War, for Netflix. Dune scribe Jon Spaihts is penning the script. Leitch and his producing partner Kelly McCormick will produce via their 87North banner along with The Coalition.
The game is set on a planet on the brink of societal collapse when a threat in the form of underground creatures known as the Locust take humanity to the verge of extinction. Delta Squad, a ragtag fireteam led by disgraced sergeant Marcus Fenix, is now charged with leading humanity’s last stand.
Netflix had no comment.
Debuting on Xbox in 2006 and going on to sell 40M+ copies across six installments, Gears of War watches as a society divided and on the brink of collapse faces total extinction by the Locust, a monstrous threat from below. Delta Squad, a ragtag fireteam led by disgraced sergeant Marcus Fenix, is then charged with leading humanity’s last stand.
Leitch is set to start production on How to Rob a Bank, this summer. The heist thriller for Amazon MGM that will star Nicholas Hoult and Anna Sawai.
He is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro. The Hollywood Reporter was the first to break the news.
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