Gears of War is still the best selling Xbox 360 game, as Halo 3 has been on the market for just over a week, and it’s still a popular game on Xbox Live, second only to Halo 3, of course. A movie is, or was, in the works, but details are, or were, sparse. According to movie site IESB.net, the movie is getting over budget for studio New Line Cinema to stick with the production. But according to the screenwriter who is supposed to pen the Gears of War script, Stuart Beattie (who wrote the excellent thriller Collateral), there is still hope;

“[300] was shot completely on green screen, which is amazing when you actually see the film. It’s probably how we’re going to do Gears of War. There’s no way to build that world any other way, really.”

As he puts it, 300 was entirely shot on green screen (for better or worse), but it still didn’t come in cheap – the budget was around $50 million, which is more than New Line Cinema is willing to pay for the Gears of War movie.