Epic Games design director Cliff “Cliffyb” Bleszinski, speaking to the Hollywood Reporter about “Live Free or Die Hard” director Len Wiseman’s involvement involvement with the Gears of War movie.

Bleszinski’s use of a theme park ride as an analogy for videogames is quite apt. While it’s certainly possible for a videogame to have more enacted narrative than a theme park ride, both pale in comparison to movies. This is even true of action movies, where the ratio of not-action to action is much higher than in an equivalent videogame. Marcus, Dom, Cole Train and all of the other characters from Gears will have to become a whole lot more compelling in their big screen incarnations in order to hold our attention. And since the game, like a theme park, only provides hints at what their more richly realized counterparts will be, any screenwriter will have to invent much of it on their own, as did the writers on “Pirates of the Caribbean.” An actor of Johnny Depp’s caliber in the lead doesn’t hurt, either…