Daily Circle Jerk Links:

• Boxers are really having a bad time of it lately.  At least it wasn’t the girlfriend this time. |SmokingSection|
• The director and producers talk the Gears of War movie.  |G4|
• Inner monologue of a nerd getting kicked out of Comic Con. |HolyTaco|
• The Lost panel at Comic Con.  I gotta tell ya, not going started seeming like a better and better decision as the week went on. |ScreenJunkies|
• The Top 10 green screen photos from Comic Con. (See example at right. Way to go, zombie guy). |Atom|
• The Real Game Genie. |CollegeHumor|
• This kid has a 98-inch flat screen in his room.  Big deal, I have a 3-inch penis in mine.  |Engadget|
• Top 10 NBA draft busts. This bust I carved of Lebron got robbed. |HoopDocs|
• Great sports nicknames in movies. |UnCoached|
• The best Iron Maiden songs you haven’t heard.  See also: most obscure lists. |Gunaxin|

And finally, folks, my friend Joe King has a comedy show tonight at the Hollywood Improv, which will also be a release party for Funny People and include performances by the cast, Daniel Tosh, and others. So if you’re in the area, check it out or your children will get cancer.

Hollywood Reporter announced today that Live Free or Die Hard director and Kate Beckinsale husband Len Wiseman will direct Gears of War, based on the video game. And if that weren’t bad enough, the screenwriter behind Wanted and 4 Fast 4 Furious will be writing the screenplay.

Cliff Bleszinski, the "Gears" design director at Epic, said the tricks to adapting a game are simple: "Hollywood needs to take the source material seriously, win over the avid gamers and make it work for an audience that is young and old, male and female."

Yeah, take the material seriously! Damn straight!  Wait, what’s our material again?

Set on the planet Sera, the game thrusts players into a battle for survival between humans and a race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet known as the Locust Horde. Players assume identities of soldiers on Delta Squad as they fight to save Sera’s inhabitants. 

Aw, son of a…

"Disney made a great movie out of a theme park ride, and somebody is sooner or later going to make a great one out of a video game," Bleszinski said.

Just to recap: they’re making a movie out of a video game.  With the guy who wrote 4 Fast 4 Furious.  Which they plan to take seriously.  So that, if all goes well, it can be as good as Pirates of the Caribbean.  …Right now I’m just going to bang this gong that says "Turd Alert".  Don’t read too much into it, I’m sure this movie will be great.