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Peter Jackson Won't Direct Halo 39

Posted by Zonk from the gaaaahhh dept.
The ever excellent Rumor Control column on Gamespot deals with a couple of good ones this week. The bubble I wish they hadn't popped concerns the upcoming Halo movie adaptation. While IMDB listed Uwe Boll as the director earlier this week, the internets began circulating with the rumor that LOTR Director Peter Jackson might be taking the helm. From the article: "The green valleys and lush terrain of New Zealand, where Jackson filmed Rings, would make a nice stand-in for Halo's surface landscape. Lastly, there's the matter of the country's favorable exchange rate, which made shooting Rings much less expensive than it would have been if it had been made in the States--and the same could be done for Halo ... In this case, it was seen by someone with a sick sense of humor, because, according to a rep from Universal, the Peter Jackson rumor is 'completely untrue.'"
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  • Considering the quality of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, and the expectations for Doom, I don't think he would want to spoil his career with a videogame->movie adaptation.

  • Peter Jackson (Score:3, Funny)

    by Meagermanx ( 768421 ) on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @11:58AM (#13614800)
    What? Someone directed an excellent, geeky series? They should make all geeky series, no matter the genre or subject matter of the film!
    • Well duh, one of the studio's who made LOTR's Special Effects is involved in Evangelion, so of course Jackson can't be allowed to elave, and now we must punish him for King Kong!

      And when is the Wackoski brothers going to start making Quake the Movie?
    • Give Halo the status of "geeky". Don't taint "geek" with this filth... ;) (Long Live Goldeneye*!)

      * EA does not make Bond games. I don't care what anyone says...
  • While I can't say I'm a huge fan of the Halo franchise -- I've played the first game on a friend's xbox, and enjoyed the PC demo's multiplayer for about half an hour when it came out -- I understand that the novelizations aren't half bad, and I'd hate to see Uwe Boll do the Halo universe the same damage he's done to other titles I'm attached to. I refuse to watch the Alone in the Dark movie because, from what I've heard, what he did to the story isn't worth my time, nevermind my money. Under no circumstanc

  • What's so great about Peter Jackson (Score:4, Interesting)

    by MBraynard ( 653724 ) on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @01:00PM (#13615343) Journal
    This is an honest request for an answer.

    My mom is a big fan of the books so every Christmas day for three years in a row, one of my gifts to her was to bring her to a theatre to watch the film. She seemed to enjoy them.

    I, however, missed the point. It was a straight up adventure film - and a very pretty one - but had no depth to it. I only read the Hobbit so I don't know the details of what the story was suppose to be. But what the movie featured, ultimatly, very ugly people in a war with very pretty people, and the very pretty people won and established a dictatorship.

    Did I miss something?

    • The movies left out a bunch of information from the books. However if you are just looking at the story told in the movies, you would be correct. Most people don't seem to care too much what got left behind. For me, I can't really stand those movies not just because they are edited but because of what was changed, and how they changed things. In many respects the movie tells a very different, more shallow story.
    • Yeah, the movie left out a big part of what made it interesting. Hollywood has this awful tendency to simplify things.

      Take Saruman, for instance. In the books he's an interesting character, and in the movie he's just a bad guy.

      The thing to Saruman is that he's not really on the "evil side". He was playing a very dangerous game with Sauron, and wasn't anything like his minion. Rather, he wanted to obtain the ring for himself. He cunningly convinced everybody that the One Ring was lost, so that he could seek
    • People love Jackson for making fantasy movies that aren't unwatchably bad. Before he did the LoTR trilogy, the total number of non-horrible fantasy movies to come out of Hollywood (Excluding Disneys kiddie movies) could by counted on one hand by discriminating viewers, and two hands by less picky people. There was a great fear that the whole thing would be bungled and turned into a barely coherent mess - after all, nobody else has handled the rings story well since Das Nibelungen was turned into a silent fi

    • But what the movie featured, ultimatly, very ugly people in a war with very pretty people, and the very pretty people won and established a dictatorship.

      Did I miss something?

      In the movie? Not really. My best advice is go read the book; it's almost entirely different, besides the names of things and a vaguely general idea of events. And try to forget the movie's imagery, too.

      To study LotR, you must also study Tolkien and the time period he was living in. Tolkien loved the natural world: trees,

  • Jackson's got too much class for a videogame adaption. Even one that really shouldn't be too hard to make. It's going to be a war movie just like all other war movies. The only difference is that millions of people are already engrossed in the... story. So, without further ado, here's what you won't miss.

    Master Chief (always accompanied by gruff, bad-ass voice: Well, looks like my suit is even better equiped to deal with the Covenent armada.

    (enter subplot) Arbiter (always a high-distingued, but also jus

  • Why not Sam Raimi then?

    Hey, it makes just as much sense.

  • Who in the hell ever decided that Uwe Boll should get any money for making movies? That no-talent hack has been making crap movies for years (just take a look at the ratings offered on IMDB). I don't care if he's been making movies since he was a child with Hi-8, I bet they were crap too.

    If they hand the Halo adaptation off to him, Microsoft will be destroying their Halo brand.

    What will it take for companies to tell Uwe Boll to drown himself? Seriously?
  • I saw this and first thought, "Good" since I'd rather Peter Jackson do something a bit more original like a Hobbit movie since theres something to the original content in the first place. Halo was a fun game and all, but seriously, much like a Doom movie, what are you really left with? Thin plot (better than Doom, but lets face it, science fiction books covered Halo's territory about 20 - 30 years previously and did it a lot better) with a whole lot of gun fire & explosions. Not to say this isnt enterta
  • They should get Sean Stewart and Elan Lee to write the screenplay. They're the only ones to make a compelling story out of Halo yet.

    Seriously...didn't they basically make a Halo movie (sans video) with I Love Bees? Oh wait, we're not supposed to talk about that. Our delicate nerd sensibilities are offended by the smell of advertising, and Halo fanboys hate to hear that something they didn't have to pay fifty dollars for had better writing and voice acting than their adorable little "BEST GMAE EVAR!"

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