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Halo Movie Script in the Works
Alex Garland, the writer of the script for 28 Days Later, has been retained to pen a script for a Halo movie. Voodoo Extreme has the story via Variety, and notes that Microsoft is keeping close creative control over the script writing process.
As long as Uwe Boll isn't involved, it's all good.
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Given what happened with the Doom movie, this one will probably end up being set on Mars with invading demons from hell as the enemy.
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From TFA, with the bolded text added for empthasis:
Microsoft recently completed a million dollar deal to secure the services of Alex Garland, 28 Days Later and The Beach writer, who is now in the process of penning a screenplay for Halo The Movie.
Is this a first for Microsoft, diversifying beyond simple computers to reach the unwashed masses, but moving into making some money off the big screen?
Not that it's a bad thing, I'm not anti-Microsoft in the business sense (well, perhaps anti-Microsoft in the anti-craptacular products sense), but it's interesting.
"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all."
- Bob Dylan
I have high hopes, and low expectations for this movie.
I hope it is not as bad as it probably will be.
Pretty Pictures!
Microsoft is keeping close creative control over the script writing process.
Will the movie be compatible with non M$ movie theatres?
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Billions and billions asked,
I heard Uwe Boll was directing Halo the movie and it was going to star the Taco Bell dog and Paulie Shore. IS THIS TRUE?
Well, the statement above does sound like an "interesting" project, but as ever, if you didn't hear it officially from Microsoft or Bungie Studios, you didn't hear it confirmed. This is Microsoft's official line on the existence or non-existence of a Halo movie:
"Halo is one of the most sought after properties and since the November launch of Halo 2, the interest level has exploded. Halo 2 has now sold more than 6.4 million copies worldwide, bringing the entire Halo franchise to a collective 12.8 million units in just three years' time. We have not, however, made any official movie announcements."
Is that ambiguous PR talk for, "We haven't announced nothin'?" Yes! Why yes it is!
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... if the title was "Red Vs. Blue".
"Derp de derp."
The Matrix could easily have been renamed Shadowrun the movie.
Meanwhile, Shadowrun could have been named "Neuromancer the Game".
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Microsoft is keeping close creative control over the script writing process.
since we all know that microsoft is well known for coming up with ideas on its own and implementing them on its own, this script will be highly original and will feature new actors in very creative and intriguing scenes and scenarios....
laugh, its funny.
M$ bought Bungie to make a decent game for their system. What movie studio, director and cast are they going to buy for the HALO movie?
Finally! Now it'll join such brilliant game to movie adaptations as...
* Mario Brothers
* Tomb Raider
* That fighting one with Raul Julia and Kylie Minogue
* Final Fantasy
* Mortal Combat
* Another Tomb Raider, with the same plot devices
And unless someone puts a plot into this one, it'll suck just like they did.
Is it just that producers see dollar signs everywhere in games, so think they can cash in with minimal work, that the people buying the games are stupid enough to flock to a crap movie just because it ties to the games?
I suspect they forget that games require less plot and character development than movies, as the players themselves supply either or both by the way they play. The result is that Tomb Raider was execrable, Final Fantasy (while having a plot) was dull in the extreme and that in general, games make really bad movies.
The best thing that could be hoped is that the movie would be so action packed with whiz-bang effects that it would distract people from the lack of a plot, pacing or character development so typical of game movies.
I'm not overly hopeful of this one. You can tell, can't you?
Alex Garland is a pretty good writer. Not only did he write 28 Days Later, but Danny Boyle's other, underrated movie "The Beach", and the book of the same name that it was based on. I've read said book, and had a tough time putting it down.
I don't know how he would deal with Sci-Fi, but it seems like the movie is in good hands
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Go pick up "Halo: First Strike" by Eric Nylund. Considering it's a book based off an Xbox game, it's not half bad. It covers the start of the Covenant/Human war, as well as the Spartan program that produced Master Chief. Turns out there were quite a few of those wacky Spartans, making it easier to turn into a movie. More characters = more character interaction = more entertaining. (In theory. There are obviously exceptions)