HALO Movie Discussion Thread

[Crichton]

Yes, WETA will do both CG and practical effects,

cool

That project seems to have indefinitely stalled, I read last night.

not cool

Peter Jackson is the Executive Producer, which puts him in a place to make broad decisions about the film (as I understand it). This includes hiring a director. Possibly himself.

very cool

[Jeffer]

http://wham.canoe.ca/news/2005/10/05/1249648-cp.html

Good he might acually make the movie good

The man behind Frodo, Gandalf and King Kong has thrown his weight behind the movie Halo.

Director Peter Jackson — along with screenwriter Fran Walsh, who was also part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong — will be executive producers of Halo — the film based on the hit video game, Microsoft announced Tuesday.

The movie is a partnership with Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox and Microsoft.

The movie Halo will also draw on the skills of WETA Digital, a visual effects company based in New Zealand that worked on the LOTR movies, Van Helsing and King Kong.

Halo has spawned two smash hits for Xbox plus a line of action figures and books. Set in 2552, Halo 2 tells the story of one soldier — Master Chief — and his bid to halt the invasion of the alien Covenant.

“From fabricating Covenant weapons to building life-sized Forerunner structures to accomplishing shot after shot of complex live-action/CG integration — simply put, there’s no group of people we’d rather have realize the Halo universe on screen,” Joseph Staten of Halo developer Bungie Studios wrote on Bungie.net., referring to WETA.

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

Cool, man. Although this really should be in the General Sci-Fi and Fantasy Thread.

[Jeffer]

crap could the mods move this i'm very tired right now

[Anubis69]

Sorry, but someone was also quicker to the trigger here!!

Still, it's great news though!

[Jeffer]

Crap indeed and i prob would have seen it had i posted in the right spot in the first place

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

The script for the upcoming Halo movie has been leaked. And it's already been reviewed:

http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptre...lo/review.html
Beware of SPOILERS

Google search results:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ne...nG=Search+News

[Hatcheter]

It's interesting to note that that reviewer (a non-gamer) gave the script five stars on a one-to-four scale.

[White Knight]

My faith is restored. I look forward to seeing this.

[Mefusta]

1) This is essentially the video game Halo with moronic dream-sequences inserted.

2) This is in all likelyhood fraudulent.

3) This does not change my view that the Halo movie will, as all other Video Game Movie adaptations have done previously, stink out loud.

[skritsys]

The only VG movie that i enjoyed was Resident Evil and RE:Apocalypse.
Unless they actually do someting with Halo on those lines then it will not be worth it.

[AGateFan]

Well on the surface it should make a good movie... just good old fashion war against aliens. Kinda like Stargate, being the aliens are religious crazies that want to kill us. The crpy part, will be the same crpy part in the game ... the flood. The less they are in the movie the better it will be.

[Hatcheter]

1) This is essentially the video game Halo with moronic dream-sequences inserted.

Of course it's Halo, it called Halo, and is about Halo.

2) This is in all likelyhood fraudulent.

Go check the article again, it's been updated with the reviewer's verification of the script's authenticity.

3) This does not change my view that the Halo movie will, as all other Video Game Movie adaptations have done previously, stink out loud.

There are a lot of ways they could screw this movie up.

They aren't doing any of them.

Microsoft hired a successful screenwriter, Alex Garland, to write the script, and paid him one million dollars for it. The script was not offered to studios until the guys who made the game at Bungie had approved it. They put a heavy pricetag on it, to make sure that it would get the serious effort it deserves, and also got a say in the production of the film.

And they paid Peter Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, a million dollars (each?) to be the executive producers. You can be certain that they won't be choosing a hack like Uwe Boll or Paul WS Anderson to direct. (The guys at Bungie had once stated a preference for Ridley Scott, or maybe James Cameron.)

[Mefusta]

Of course it's Halo, it called Halo, and is about Halo.

Go check the article again, it's been updated with the reviewer's verification of the script's authenticity.

There are a lot of ways they could screw this movie up.

They aren't doing any of them.

Microsoft hired a successful screenwriter, Alex Garland, to write the script, and paid him one million dollars for it. The script was not offered to studios until the guys who made the game at Bungie had approved it. They put a heavy pricetag on it, to make sure that it would get the serious effort it deserves, and also got a say in the production of the film.

And they paid Peter Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, a million dollars (each?) to be the executive producers. You can be certain that they won't be choosing a hack like Uwe Boll or Paul WS Anderson to direct. (The guys at Bungie had once stated a preference for Ridley Scott, or maybe James Cameron.)

Well, I stand corrected...

[Anubis69]

Personally, i think it sounds immense. I look forward to that flashback with the spartans. Sounds, uber macho. LotR style epic fights, but with plasma grenades and loads of blood!

One thing, i don't like the idea of seeing MC's face. It shouldn't be shown! EVEEEEEER!!!!!