The gears are turning for David Leitch.
The Fall Guy director is in negotiations to helm Gears of War, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of one of the biggest video game franchises on the Xbox platform.
Jon Spaihts, who is working with Denis Villeneuve on adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune books for Legendary, is writing the script for the feature for which Netflix has partnered with The Coalition Studio, the Canadian game developer behind the franchise.
Leitch and his wife and producing partner Kelly McCormick will produce the feature via their 87North banner along with The Coalition.
Netflix had no comment on the dealmaking.
The game is set on a planet on the brink of societal collapse when a monstrous 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 picked up the rights to the popular video game franchise in November 2022 with grand ambitions. It hopes to first adapt the game as a feature, then follow that up with an adult animated series. More work would follow in success.
Coming out of the stunt world, Leitch is slowly crafting a wide-ranging resume even as he stays in the action lane. Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was a kiss to the stunt and moviemaking community. The Brad Pitt-led Bullet Train was a contained, twisty assassin thriller, while Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw was a franchise play. Also on his list are comic book movie Deadpool 2 and period spy thriller Atomic Blonde.
Leitch is now in prep on How to Rob a Bank, a heist thriller for Amazon MGM that will star Nicholas Hoult and Anna Sawai.
He is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.
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