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Halo Movie Postponed, Street Fighter Movie On

Posted by Zonk on Tue Oct 31, 2006 08:56 AM
from the we-live-in-the-crappy-bizarro-world dept.
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FofR writes "Given the previous statements concerning the Halo Movie's stalled progress, it should come as no surprise that the movie is now officially on hold." From the article: "At this time Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their partner, Microsoft, have mutually agreed to postpone making a feature film based on the Halo video game universe until we can fulfill the promise we made to millions of Halo fans throughout the world that we would settle for no less than bringing a first class film to the big screen. We are fully supportive of Director Neill Blomkamp's vision of the film. Neill is a tremendously gifted filmmaker and his preliminary work on Halo is truly awe-inspiring. While it will undoubtedly take a little longer for Halo to reach the big screen, we are confident that the final feature film will be well worth the wait." You'll be happy to know even if a Jackson-inspired Halo isn't coming our way, at least we can look forward to another Street Fighter movie.
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  • release date (Score:3, Funny)

    by gEvil (beta) (945888) on Tuesday October 31 2006, @09:04AM (#16656795)
    I heard the Halo movie will be released alongside Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie.
    • Hey, be careful! Duke Nukem Forever actually shows up on the BestBuy page... so if it actually will see the light of the day sometimes soon, then the best part of that joke is over soon :-)
  • Another street fighter movie? While we are at it lets make another Super Mario Brothers and Wing Commander.
  • Nooooooooooooooo! Now see, I've reminded myself of the end to Episode III... Thanks... Thanks a lot.
  • Raul Julia as M. Bison, Van Damme and Kylie Minogue, well ... Maybe I'm suspicious because I was both a teenager and addicted in the video game. The best quote in the movie in my opinion:

    Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
    Dee Jay: Because he paid me a freakin fortune, Man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass!
    Zangief: ...you got paid?

  • Let's face it (Score:4, Insightful)

    by elrous0 (869638) * on Tuesday October 31 2006, @09:13AM (#16656897)
    Speaking as a film fan, let me say that this is for the best. Video game movies generally suck. It's just not a medium that translates well to film. In spite of all the "Master Chief RULZ!!" sentiment among fans, the fact remains that the Master Chief is a faceless entity in the video games (and, likely, would make a terrible film character).

    And, yes, I realize he is "fleshed out" in the novels. But the novels are pulp crap. In the novels, he goes from a 0-dimensional character to a 1-dimensional character. That's not even nearly enough to make an interesting film.

    It would be difficult, if not impossible, to make a film that stayed true to the videogame (to make the fans happy), was commercially successful enough to justify its high budget (to make the studio happy), and had well-developed characters and an interesting plot (to make the critics happy). That's why so many studios have passed on it.

    -Eric

    • "Video game movies generally suck." I couldn't agree more. I caught the last 30 minutes of DOOM on one of the movie channels a week or two ago. Going in and out of first person perspective was disorienting and pointless. I really hope they just stop making video game movies.
      • Actually - I was thinking that Sarge would make a good main character. (Samuel L Jackson?)
        A look at the Halo world through a different viewpoint might yield a refreshing perspective.
        Plus - Sarge is clearly privy to more "classified" info than the MC is.
        • yeah, he was privy to enough info to get him off of the Pillar of Autumn in one piece!!! Screw hotblasting the fusion reactors then dramatically hopping on the last transport out of there, he took the easy way!

          Seriously though, the halo universe is quite detailed and there are plenty of bigscreen movieable backstories, and I think most of the naysayers have just written it off as another sci-fi shooter. I think the vast majority of video game movies have sucked simply because the focus was never on plot de
      • Amen to that! Peter Jackson is vastly overrated. LoTR was practically an open goal in film-making terms. Any journeyman director could have made it, the crucial factor was the fact that CGI technology had finally reached the point where it was possible to do justice to a live-action adaptation of the books. The SFX was the star of those movies.
        Any stuff he did add just detracted from the original stories (e.g. skate-boarding elves, dwarf-tossing, massive hobbit homerotic overload).

        As for his King Kong - man

        • While I agree that the hobbit-related gaiety was way over the top for an American audience the simple fact is that the hobbits in the books acted pretty gay. To gay them down a little bit would be almost as unfaithful to the book as taking Frodo to Minas Tirith.

          TBS Superstation (I'll have the soup) had the greatest commercial bumper ever for LoTR. They had several good ones actually but the best involved mockery of hobbit homosexuality. I'd pay someone $3 to send me a decent-quality copy of that, it was

          • I actually liked his b-rated stuff much better than his later movies. Some directors seem to thrive under adversity, but fade away the second they're given big budgets (Chris Nolan and M. Night Shyamalan, I'm looking in your direction).

            I actually find myself hoping that great young directors never make it "big," lest they fall into making mainstream fare before they're old enough, powerful enough, or wise enough to fight the studio suits. Right now, I'm glad guys like Brad Anderson [imdb.com] and David Gordon Green [imdb.com]

  • Great! (Score:5, Funny)

    by LarsWestergren (9033) on Tuesday October 31 2006, @09:13AM (#16656905) Homepage Journal
    You'll be happy to know even if a Jackson-inspired Halo isn't coming our way, at least we can look forward to another Street Fighter movie.

    So the sex was postponed, but at least we got the syphilis? Awesome! Thank you, Hollywood!
  • Not being a Halo fan I am moderatly intrested in the Street Fighter movie, if it's all about being able to drink beer whilst in my favourite lounger like the first movie was, it's okay in my book.
  • Any word yet on how many Bison Dollars it'll cost to make?
  • Any status on the Sonic Movie [wikia.com]?
  • Also under consideration is the movie's title. Options being debated include "Longhalo" and "Halo Vista."

  • Hobbit? Not for a while. (Score:3, Informative)

    by bigdavex (155746) on Tuesday October 31 2006, @09:39AM (#16657245)
    "What happened to doing the Hobbit?" I wondered. And Wikipedia answered [wikipedia.org]:


    Much speculation has occurred as to whether Jackson might direct a film of The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. His comments to date seem to indicate that he is interested, if the studios can work out the rights. Late in 2004 it appeared unlikely, as MGM (the studio which holds the rights to The Hobbit) was sold to Sony in the race with Warner Bros. In December of 2004, Jackson said that production on The Hobbit could be as much as four years away,[8] which would place a likely release date in 2010. In September 2006, MGM indicated that they intended to approach Peter Jackson to direct the film in the next few years.[9]

  • Most people would have thought that a Halo movie would suck donkey dick, and cancelled any such waste of money. Glad to see Peter has come around to that conclusion.

    Now make the Hobbit dammit.

  • The only Game movies I have seen that werent compltele disasters were Mortal Kombat (the first one), Silent Hill and Resident Evil. Of those none were particularly good, just not as bad as they could have been. The best video game movies are the ones that were based on video games that didnt exist or ended up spawning video games based on them, Tron, Cloak & Daggar and The Last Starfighter come to mind.

    Why are the majority so bad? Why must every director put their "creative stamp" on things. Of cour
    • Street Fighter didn't kill Raul.

      Joan Cusack came back from the dead and was some how able to whisk away Christopher Lloyd FOREVER!

    • Rumor has it that the Street Fighter game is going to be based around Chun-Li which tells me the focus is less on fighting and more on T&A. That being the case wouldnt they have been better off going for Dead of Alive its more well known with the younger gamers and if far more of a T&A fest than Street Fighter

      I really hate to do this to you, so blissful and innocent, but....Dead or Alive The Movie [imdb.com].

    • There already is a DoA movie in the works. And yes, it has beach volleyball. And yes, it looks god-fucking-awful. I don't care about the videogames at all, and it's bad enough that they're popular. But the movie really just makes me want to cry for future of humanity.
  • A friend and I used to deliberately go to see the worst movies playing, so of course we saw the first Street Fighter movie. He took his son, who was four or five at the time. At the end, he turned to his dad and asked: "Why did they call it Street Fighter if they're in the jungle all the time?"

    That pretty much sums up the movie in a sentence.

    So, I suppose the moral of the story is that they couldn't do any worse in a new version.
    • "Why did they call it Street Fighter if they're in the jungle all the time?"

      Kind of reminds me of my first impression of Uwe Boll's "Alone in the Dark". One of the first scenes shows the lead character hunting some kind of demon over a crowded square in broad daylight...
  • The fourth book in the Halo series came out today - and from what I hear it's excellent:

    http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0765315688/ref=s9_asi n_image_1/002-2488787-3446424 [amazon.com]

  • SHIN...SHOR...RYU0...KEN!!!
    • Has there ever been a game movie that has done well in the theaters? I sure cannot think of one. It seems like a lesson should have been learned by now...

      Tomb Raider did $274,644,183 in cinemas worldwide (source: the-numbers.com) on a $94m budget, so not a bad return on investment.
    • Mortal Kombat [imdb.com] proved that a movie based on a video game could be successful.

      • Which they ruined with a really bad sequel... the first one was great mindless fun...

        I was expecting about an hour and a half of wire-fu fighting going in, and I got it. No big plots, just lots of fighting...

        And as I remember, one of the few times every male (geek) in the audience cheered when someone got nutted (when Johnny Cage did his splits/groin punch to Goro)...

        Nephilium

        "You boys are as cute as a couple of lost golf balls . . . how in the world do you do it?" -- The High Window (Chapter 23)

        • You were exactly NOT the kind of audience they were making the movie for. I saw SMB in theaters when I was in my early 20s, and I have to say I rather enjoyed it. It was experimenting with CG special effects (this was the same year Jurassic Park came out), was imaginative and silly, and the plot--what plot there was to speak of--was just not the reason I went to see the film. SMB was the first of its kind and the filmmakers (and writers) were exploring this new genre with a kind of Alice In Wonderland sort
          • But it wasn't accurate to the game! Where were the 1ups! The flying koopas! The castles (lacking princesses)! Why was there a Bomb-omb when those didn't appear until SMB3? How can you stand by these incontinuities? Where was Lou Albano?
    • Fantasy movies often suck not because of being a live action medium, but because they are usually born of B-movie scripts with bad dialog, and cheesy special effects. Written properly with a proper budget to back the special effects and not choreographed by someone's retarted cousin, they would do fine.
       

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