Halo Movie Deal Moves Closer

Universal and Fox are apparently close to coming up with a deal Microsoft is happy with for the in-the-works Halo film. Gamespot reports that the two movie studios will cofinance the hugely expensive movie title. From the article: "while Universal and Fox's offer is now the only game in town, Microsoft is still unsure if it wants to play ball. Variety and the Times say the agreement is held up on two fronts. First, the two studios requested that Microsoft relinquish its demands and that the Halo movie strictly follow a Bungie-penned "bible," which would ensure that it would not deviate from the Halo mythos or conflict with "sequels" to the game (i.e. Halo 3). The second reported sticking point was Microsoft's insistence that principal shooting begin as soon as possible, possibly as early as this fall."

Comments

Why not just pull a Square and do it themselves?

[Alzheimers]

At this point, if Microsoft is so confident that the movie would succeed should it be made, why don't they just open their own studio and make it themselves? If Halo: The Movie does do well, who knows what other Microsoft franchises might get sent to the big screen?

Flight Simulator: in IMAX 3D!

Re:Why not just pull a Square and do it themselves

[TrippTDF]

This Summer... PowerPoint: The Movie

Re:Take your time

[srmalloy]

Microsoft always wants to rush everything and only ends up with a crappy product in the end. I hope whatever company decides to make the film takes their time and makes it worth seeing.

Thinking about this, it may be the movie that makes George Lucas' vision of electronic distribution of digital movies to theatres the industry standard, because that's the only way that Microsoft's going to be able to distribute a patch after "MS Halo 1.0" proves to be massively buggy and BSOD's in theatres nationwide...