During Epic Games’ Gears of War Panel at Comic-Con 2009 the director, Len Wiseman, and writer, Chris Morgan, of the upcoming film adaptation shared some details with fans about potential casting selections for the movie. According to IGN, amongst the prospects to play Maria (the wife Dominic Santiago) Len Wiseman said he was interested in British actress Kate Beckinsale.

Now the Gears panel is over, here’s a quick and easy to read list of the announcements should if you missed it. Note that these are only the announcements made, much more was discussed in depth in the panel. See the bottom of this post for the link to the full dialogue of the panel. Heres the highlights

Game Related

• Double XP Week coming on Dark Corners release

Movie Related

• No casting decisions have been made
• Emergence Day will definetely be in the movie
• Story and character comes first, but the spectactle is going to be there

Avatar Related

• COG Armor coming to Avatars on August 11th with the dashboard update
• Locust Armor coming also, but release was unspecified

Comic Related

• Gears of War comic series “Baron” announced. Introduces female Gears.

For the full dialogue of the panel and for extended details on the subjects listed above, click HERE.