HALO film moving ahead.

[Mentok]

Despite recent drama surrounding the planned big-screen adaptation of Halo, Microsoft is still determined to make the movie a reality. After Fox and Universal, the two studios that had been co-financing the flick, dropped out earlier this week, Microsoft has begun shopping it around.

According to today's Variety, Microsoft is focusing their partnering efforts on Warner Bros. and Paramount, partially due to complex relational issues with the other major studios. Sony is out because of the PlayStation. Disney is iffy due to Apple's Steve Jobs involvement. And New Line is still working through legal problems related to LOTR with Halo producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. The level of interest that Warners and Paramount have shown in the project is unclear.

As the trade speculates, it would also make sense for Microsoft to go it alone. Money isn't an issue and they could rent distribution services. That's a high risk scenario, but with a better potential payoff. And they might also go after private financing.

While all this wrangling is going on in the background, the film itself is moving ahead. The original script by Alex Garland (28 Days Later) has been rewritten by Ender's Game scribe D.B. Weiss and will reportedly get another rewrite by Josh Olsen, screenwriter on A History of Violence.

A new person on the script and in talks with another studio.

 

[Mr. Credible]

if anyone puts their hopes in the fact that this movie will be better than any other game-adaptation to date, then i feel bad for them already. i don't care if it does have peter jackson attached, it'll still be mediocre at best. same as the lord of the rings movies.

 

[Mentok]

*incurs wrath of LoTR fanboys*

 

[Fenrir]

Thank God the devil's toilet plunger a.k.a Fox is no longer attached to the film. At we can rest easy the film won't have budget cuts and the runtime butchered down to less than 2 hours to accommodate more showings per theater.

Tom Rothman can go **** himself. :

 

[WhatsHisFace]

It's gonna be awesome.

 

[Fran]

I think Fox going away was the best thing to happen.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

If they can market the HALO franchise into a critical success AND a financial success, than I will be amazed.

Halo doesn't seem the easiest game to transfer onto the big screen. and who exactly would the target audience be....fanboys?

 

[Fenrir]

...and who exactly would the target audience be....fanboys?

Fanboys, sci-fi buffs, the big FX summer blockbuster crowd...

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Fanboys, sci-fi buffs, the big FX summer blockbuster crowd...

True, but oly if marketed right. I mean, science fiction is still a touchy subject and to be honest...the plot for Halo is confusing for me...not sure how well it would translate onto the film screen.

 

[Fenrir]

True, but oly if marketed right. I mean, science fiction is still a touchy subject and to be honest...the plot for Halo is confusing for me...not sure how well it would translate onto the film screen.

...are you sure you finished the first Halo? The plot of that game is deep and intriguing but it's also quite straightforward. Now the second one I agree can get a bit contrived at times but even then it shouldn't be "confusing" to anyone who pays attention.

Oh and when was the last time we got a "good sci-fi"?

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Maybe I'm not the one to be talking aout this.

I haven't PROPERLY played a halo game.

you may kick me now.

 

[Fran]

*Kicks Lee*



It's only for your own good, Lee

 

[The Amazing Lee]

I deserved that.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

I deserved that.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

wtf.

 

[Fran]

OMG WTF BBQ

 

[The Amazing Lee]

 

[WhatsHisFace]

The Halo movie will be awesome and will sell awesome.

Microsoft won't take anything less for an answer.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I seriously don't like the fact that it's going through its third writer, but they're all really talented, so who knows? I still have really high hopes for this.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Well it's good that they are taking their time and aren't going with the first pile of crap that is written.

 

[Axid]

Blas won't like the movie because of plasma guns

 

[Fenrir]

Well it's good that they are taking their time and aren't going with the first pile of crap that is written.

Actually, this was that first pile of crap.

 

[The Amazing Lee]

Blas would only like the plasma guns if instead of plasma they shooted out japanese girls in bikinis.

 

[ToddIsDead]

Actually, this was that first pile of crap.

That's what worried me when they put on the first rewriter. Now that they're on the third writer, I'm afraid that they're really watering it down.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

That's what worried me when they put on the first rewriter. Now that they're on the third writer, I'm afraid that they're really watering it down.

Neill Blomkamp says they're just revisions. He said the first one was to make the dialogue work. I think now that they have a director, they're changing it around to meet his needs or something.

Script re-writes happen all the time, I think it will be a great movie eventually.