Thursday, August 23, 2007
What Could Have Been
Microsoft had a script, a director and even Peter Jackson on board to help produce a live action film based on Halo. The one thing they didn't have was a movie studio willing to do all the heavy lifting and actually release the movie.
It's my believe that these live-action shorts surfacing lately are proof-of-concept pieces from when they were hard-selling the picture. Neill Blomkamp may be unproven in feature-length, but his bad-ass shorts, Alive in Joburg, Tempbot and Yellow are a taste of what the Halo picture could be like.
Who knows? According to IMDB the picture is still in production. Maybe they're in a holding pattern until the studio suits get an eyeful of the zillions Halo 3 will rake in next month.
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Halo back story and Peter Jackson directing seems like Summer Popcorn Movie money in the bank to me. I can't believe no one wants to pull the trigger on this.
PJ won't be directing. It will be the South African feller I mentioned in the posts.
seems to me the delay might be due to halo 3 tie-in. Yes Halo 3 will sell a buttload, but if the halo movie ties directly into halo 3 (rather than going back to halo 1 storyline) and the game can actually contain cutscenes that come from the movie, the potential to have a feeding frenzy amongst the players is there.
of course, the timeline for such an action is basically undoable now, as halo 3 is looming on the horizon.
It is quite possible also that the powers that be are waiting to make sure that halo 3 does as it is expected to do. Sometimes a franchise fumbles a great gameline. Hate to have a movie half in the can at the time of the fumble.
Maybe they shelved it because it turned out that two hours of headshot after headshot just wasn't that interesting.
I think it's more a case of the studios wanting to keep Microsoft in their place.
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