The Official Halo thread!

[Soapy]

I hope all the people that shot down this movie punch themselves in the balls.

They don't have any.

 

[DACrowe]

Look, I will admit Beyoncé's song is incredibly catchy and enjoyable in a sappy way. But I don't understand why or how they'd make an entire movie based around it. The video was enough.

I'll be running now.

 

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

Look, I will admit Beyoncé's song is incredibly catchy and enjoyable in a sappy way. But I don't understand why or how they'd make an entire movie based around it. The video was enough.

I'll be running now.

you better. *loads shotgun*

 

[Ipodman]

That song could work well in the Halo teaser trailer... gives a very creepy feel to it

 

[Project862006]

just listened to that song it actually is'nt bad at all

 

[dark_b]

How That Stunning Halo 3: ODST Live Action Short Was Made

 

[Bunker]

We need a ****ing Halo movie right now.

 

[Hamill-Joker]

I'm still not sure where they should start in the story when they make a movie, whether at the Fall of Reach or at the original Halo.

Either way, the movie should start out with Cortana narrating the backstory with brief flashes of the backstory of the series.

My biggest concern is that whoever does the Halo movie will not understand how to make the movie the right way.

I dread movie studios seeing nothing but dollar signs and a Big Budget Summer Action Flick.

It needs to be done by someone who has a passion to get it right.

When I think of that, I think of Christopher Nolan when he did The Dark Knight and Batman Begins.

 

[Master Chief]

Have faith in Bungie, they're not gonna let anyone just cash in on the name. :heart:

That extra clip was wicked. Really. A sci-fi war film plz, the commercials are proof enough it'd be amazing!

 

[:eek:]

Microsoft Still Interested in Making Halo Movie

Source: Variety
September 4, 2010


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In an article talking about the popular "Halo" franchise, Variety published quotes from Franchise Development Director Frank O'Connor about whether we'll ever see a Halo movie. The trade says that Microsoft is still developing scripts by Alex Garland, Stuart Beattie, D.B. Weiss and Josh Olson as potential blueprints.

"We're still interested in making an excellent 'Halo' movie," O'Connor said. "We've created an awful lot of documentation and materials to support a feature film. We have a good idea of what kind of story we want to tell, but won't move on it until there's a great reason to do it. We're in no particular hurry."

The film would likely be a standalone story and not "a verbatim retelling of the game," O'Connor added.

Microsoft is also "intently watching" the TV landscape as a potential outlet for a "Halo" series.

The next game in the franchise, "Halo Reach," hits stores on September 14.

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[Jackasscoley15]

Translation: "We're going to dangle the prospect of a Halo movie over people's heads to gain publicity for Halo: Reach."

 

[Solidus]

Translation: "We're going to dangle the prospect of a Halo movie over people's heads to gain publicity for Halo: Reach."

That is what I thought when I read this article.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Have faith in Bungie, they're not gonna let anyone just cash in on the name. :heart:

That extra clip was wicked. Really. A sci-fi war film plz, the commercials are proof enough it'd be amazing!

Bungie no longer owns the rights to Halo. Microsoft bought it off of them completely.

 

[Paroxysm]

Microsoft's "on hold" plans for a Halo film series may be back on again, with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures "renewing its efforts to obtain the rights and revive the project," according to a new report.

NY Mag's entertainment column, Vulture, cites "insiders" in a report that claims DreamWorks is "focusing on using novelizations of the video game" for a planned adaptation of the Halo franchise.

Why the books? Reportedly, the argument is that DreamWorks will focus on different source material than the games, which Universal studios already sank some $12 million in development into. Spielberg's studio would ideally avoid being responsible for reimbursing those costs.

This is not the first time Spielberg and DreamWorks have been rumored to be attached to a Halo film project. Last year, film site IESB reported that the director of sci-fi fare like Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Minority Report was "blown away" by screenwriter Stuart Beattie's treatment—based on the book Halo: The Fall of Reach—and was in "active negotiations" to get his hands on Halo.

Microsoft recently said it's still interested in bringing Halo to the big screen, but "won't move on it until there's a great reason to do it." Spielberg's involvement sure sounds like a great reason.

Vulture has a thorough history of the Halo movie's ongoing development hell, so if you want to be better informed about how hard it is to make a video game movie happen, read it.

http://kotaku.com/5657490/report-halo-movie-might-happen-with-spielberg-but-in-an-unexpected-way

So epic.

 

[Boom]

Good. That live action trailer for Halo Reach was glorious. I sure wish Blomkamp would reconsider coming back to this. And if this does pan out, hopefully Weta is back on board - considering all of the pre-production work they did the first time around.

As for them adapting the book, I'm fine with that. While Master Chief is the ultimate badass in the videogame, if they were to translate that to the silver screen it would get stale pretty quickly. Not much you can do with a character that speaks maybe ten lines of dialogue. You can only be a badass in so many scenes before people start to notice that you aren't interesting.

 

[Paroxysm]

Good. That live action trailer for Halo Reach was glorious. I sure wish Blomkamp would reconsider coming back to this. And if this does pan out, hopefully Weta is back on board - considering all of the pre-production work they did the first time around.

As for them adapting the book, I'm fine with that. While Master Chief is the ultimate badass in the videogame, if they were to translate that to the silver screen it would get stale pretty quickly. Not much you can do with a character that speaks maybe ten lines of dialogue. You can only be a badass in so many scenes before people start to notice that you aren't interesting.

If they use the books then we'll see other Spartans other than John who also talk quite a bit more.

 

[Boom]

I agree. The novel adaptation of MC leaves room for developing the character. The video game incarnation is stagnant and boring (from a character perspective).

 

[jacobed]

MC barely talks because they want you the gamer to feel like you are him same as Noble 6 and Link. A movie version would definitely be a lot more vocal.

 

[Fenrir]

I think the best way to handle Master Chief in a Halo film would be to not make him a front and center character, but rather part of an ensemble that includes Keyes, Cortana and Captain Johnson. And the ideal role for Master Chief would be the kind of role the Joker's was in TDK - he would be a (messianic rather than evil) force of nature that just cuts through the plot requiring little to no character development. He would show up during the direst of circumstances, his arrival always being the massive tide that changes the outcome of battle and something the battle-weary and defeated soldiers of UNSC always pray for. I believe this is always the best way to approach most videogame characters that are of the silent hardened soldier/cold killer variety. I was just thinking about a Hitman movie a few days ago and thought how awesome it would be as a crime saga about a couple of different crime bosses who are marked for execution by the Agency and 47 essentially being the Anton Chigurh of the piece. Not only would it be pitch-perfect for the character, it also saves him from the standard humanize-the-assassin schlock that he was subjected to in his last film.

 

[jacobed]

Blomkamp described him best saying that he was going to be the most important supporting character. Which like you said would be the best way to put him in a movie. It's too bad that movie got scrapped.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I think the best way to handle Master Chief in a Halo film would be to not make him a front and center character, but rather part of an ensemble that includes Keyes, Cortana and Captain Johnson. And the ideal role for Master Chief would be the kind of role the Joker's was in TDK - he would be a (messianic rather than evil) force of nature that just cuts through the plot requiring little to no character development. He would show up during the direst of circumstances, his arrival always being the massive tide that changes the outcome of battle and something the battle-weary and defeated soldiers of UNSC always pray for. I believe this is always the best way to approach most videogame characters that are of the silent hardened soldier/cold killer variety. I was just thinking about a Hitman movie a few days ago and thought how awesome it would be as a crime saga about a couple of different crime bosses who are marked for execution by the Agency and 47 essentially being the Anton Chigurh of the piece. Not only would it be pitch-perfect for the character, it also saves him from the standard humanize-the-assassin schlock that he was subjected to in his last film.

Perfect. Couldn't have said it any better.

 

[MadVillainy]

Serious question: PG13 or R rating

I know Halo is M, but I dont really see why it can't be PG13. People on the net will probably b**** alot, but in all honesty Halo would be fine with PG13

 

[chaseter]

It won't be R. The games are rated M but more kids that are under 18 play this than do 18+ guys and gals. Plus the curse words in the games are probably what makes it M...I just don't see how alien killing makes a game M for Mature. These games aren't really that graphic.

 

[dark_b]

Halo needs a big budget and there is no realistic chance that it could be PG13 in the next 5 years. in 10 years when the technology will be cheaper it can be R hehe

 

[Soapy]

PG13 for sure. Nothing in the games warrants an R rating in my opinion.