The film studios are finally figuring out a fact of making video game movies; choose modern popular titles to draw in the gamer crowd and choose games that allow you to throw together enough explosions and special effects to draw in the rest of the prospective audience.

Talk has been going around regarding a Gears of War movie for quite some time now, but reports now suggest that it’s not as much of a pipe dream as many thought. Chris Morgan, screenwriter for the film as well as Wanted and Fast and Furious has turned in a draft of the script and somewhere in a dimly lit board room the hazy, ill-defined figures who decide what gets to be a film and what ends up as lining in a bird cage are meeting to discuss budgets.

The epic nature of the story (a world being overrun by hostile aliens) means there’s going to be a big price tag attached to the project, which is generally the stumbling block for pitched projects. Morgan says that he’s convinced there’s no way to make the film without addressing its epic nature and that gamers will be happy with it since they put in all the things they want to see and “blow it out a little more, even”.

Only time will tell though, since thus far there haven’t really been any video game to film conversions that made the fans happy.