Halo Movie Is Still Dead

1up is reporting that despite numerous reports of its death, the Halo movie isn't quite completely cancelled ... yet. As far as Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, and the WETA folks are concerned, things are still just in a holding pattern. "Kamins also shot down both the rumors of a swelling budget and dissatisfaction with Blomkamp. 'The only budget the filmmakers every spoke about was $145 million less the 12.5% rebate that you get from shooting in New Zealand, which would put it at about $128 million,' said [Jackson representative Ken Kamins]. And of the director, Kamins said, 'Everybody is supremely confident in Neall. Part of what excited Peter and Fran was Neill's vision. We're very confident this film will move forward with the creative partners intact, who will take the film to production.'" Update: 10/30 18:58 GMT by Z : It looks like that post was made from outdated sources.

Scheduled release...

Current release date set to coincide with Duke Nukem Forever.

Walk

I think I'll go for a walk. I feel happY!

Halo was quoted as saying -

"I'm not dead yet... ... I feel Happy!"

Re:Halo was quoted as saying -

"I'm not dead yet... ... I feel Happy!"

"and while you're dying, I'll still be Alive"

Uwe Boll will save it!

He makes such GREAT movies based on video games...

Hope it is Cancelled!

Halo kicks ass, don't get me wrong. I just absolutely HATE seeing a movie of something great, absolutely tank. It's almost embarrasing. Mario Brothers Movie Resident Evil (ok, some people actually like it) etc. etc. As good as Halo is, I think it would be a terrible movie. It would be some odd rehashed Predator type movie, in my imagination at least. Some things just aren't meant for the big screen. Create another sequal and you'll make a ton more money than a movie would!

Re:Hope it is Cancelled!

This one will be different, as there is a *superb* backstory to draw on already, thanks to the efforts of Eric Nylund (and a few others) with the Halo book series. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone who enjoys military sci-fi, and anyone who is remotely intrigued about the Covenant and the Forerunners. There's a new one out this week actually - the 5th in the series so far.

Landfall

I don't know, I was pretty impressed with the 2nd and third segments of Landfall [youtube.com]. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't quite capture the feel of the game. Which may, in fact, be good for many people. The film was alot grittier than anything you experience in game. But then again, in the game you are a Spartan not an ODST.

BTW, since when could an ODST drive like that? If I was in the back of that warthog in game, we would have hit every one of those walls. Or simply stopped in front of each one for 15 seconds figuring out how to get around it.

a cost saving suggestion

Since video game movies tend to be pretty awful anyway make the Halo move a Uwe Boll [imdb.com] production and get it over with. He'll save a lot of money on the actors, special effects, costumes, sets, and the script by bringing his special brand of incompetence and indifference to the project.

$145 million for Halo? Boll could trash it for $35 million.

Whereas Peter Jackson would want CG space ship scenes with the giant ring rendered in glorious detail Boll would settle for spray painting a hula hoop and super gluing Legos to it.

Damn, who knew game movies were vampires

Just as you think you killed them off for good, someone drops a little blood and Guess Who Is BACK!

Most video games, and I think Halo certainly qualifies, use story telling because being told to kill X of Y because, is a little bit boring after a while. Oh sure sure, Halo got a rich universe, intresting characters, yada yada. Sorry. NO.

It really doesn't. It is enough to motivate you to play the game BUT it is the game that is the main attraction. NOT the story. To give you a counter example, The Longest Journey you play for the story NOT the puzzles.

In a movie you can do two things, tell a story or WOW the audience. There may be a certain amusement seeing the characters come to life, problam is that in modern video games they are already "alive".

Then there is telling a story. If you retell the same story as in the game, why bother. It is not like games today can't do that themselves.

What is left is to tell an intresting story and so far games to movies haven't done that. Even the passable Dungeon & Dragon 2 didn't exactly tell a tale that amazed.

Frankly, it is almost doomed (get it doom?) from the start. Doom3 made a better movie then doom the movie. Halo as far as it can be movie, already IS a movie, just with lots of interactive bits.

What could you do to Halo that would A not mess up the original material B present a fresh new intresting story.

You can't. Mario Brothers only hinted at the game and basically invented lots of stuff never in the game. Doom tried to make it an aliens wannabe. I can understand the attraction, but lets not forget that Lord of The Rings is NOT a good example. That movie was nice because it allowed us to see what we previously had to imagine. It wasn't a retelling of the stories, more and illustrated edition of the story that skipped and simplified a great deal but that didn't matter because it had huge battles.

Why doesn't Microsoft Fund this themselves?

Seriously? I would bet my yearly salary that even if this movie is terrible, it would make back the 128 million it costs to make. Just the name alone and a well thought out opening weekend will make this movie a blockbuster, guaranteed. MS just needs to throw down the money and show the studios that walked away how badly the screwed up...

Heres the problem with fans and game based movies!

People always expect the movies to be exactly like the game. Which is what bugs me,if the movie followed the exact plot outline to every detail of the game, then there is no point.

OMFGWTFBBQ!!

WHAT?!

Oh no. Oh dear god, no! Kill it! Kill it now!!!

Honestly, I couldn't possibly think of a worse movie. With the possible exception of Doom. Doom should have been a huge bright red blinking neon sign warning them away from this path.

Leave it alone...

Halo is best told as an interactive story via a screen and controller, not a movie theater. Too many games get completely destroyed when going to the big screen (See: Doom, Alone in the Dark). Rarely do video games made about movies work, so why do we always think the opposite is a good idea? Don't print the Mona Lisa on a postcard and expect to preserve the same artistic quality. And besides, you know in the hands of Peter Jackson this movie will end up being 4 hours long, and we won't even see the Master Chief until the 2:45 mark anyway. Stop production, cut your losses, and walk away from this one. Please. Unless Willem Defoe's in it. In that case, I take it all back. Go for it.

Why does it have to be live action?

I've watched the cut scenes in the halo games and they move the story along fine. I mean, we've all seen how well the Final Fantasy movies have done in the US but, Advent Children is probably the best Video Game movie I've seen in my entire life! The Models for M.C. exist and any Halo move that doesn't include him would just be wrong! Like a Doom movie not in space with hell spawned demons...

Great potential if it's not Jackson

A Halo movie has the potential to be absolutely fantastic. Master Chief and The Arbiter doing a buddy-buddy cop style action sci-fi movie where they kill a billion bad guys -- it can work. No-one's expecting Enemy at the Gates or Schindler's List here.

Problem is Peter Jackson. He is an atrocious director who works with supremely bad editors. A lot of y'all are saying Uwe Boll should just drive the franchise into the ground and be done with it. Peter Jackson is just as capable of doing that. Really I wouldn't trust anyone but maybe Bryan Singer or Wolfgang Petersen with a project like Halo.

just finished Halo 3 and ...

absolutely no idea what is was about. There was some guy in armour and a hologram. There were several sorts of aliens but I could never work out which side some of them were on. Most of the synopsis out there read like manga stories, ie, a random selection of words arranged in roughly the same order as a story.

What was it with MasterChef and the hologram? Did someone kidnap her or something? What was the Flood again?

Halo Movie Name Leaked

"The Blood Gulch Chronicles"

Yes, actually. The cat does "got my tongue."

> 1up is reporting that despite numerous reports of its death, the Halo movie isn't quite completely cancelled

Ummm, yay?

N/A

I pretty much hate Halo but I like BSG. I think if the BSG people handled the Halo movie I could watch it. Considering the BSG people are all out of a job at the end of the fourth BSG season, why not give them the movie?

Good.

Not much else to say, really...