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Halo Movie May Happen After All
spizkapa writes "On the back of the story about the Halo competition, Microsoft are reported to have reached a deal with Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox to make a movie based on Halo and Halo-2. Apparently, Microsoft initially wanted $10 million plus 15% of the box office revenue but the deal was struck when the two studios teamed up and offered $5 million and 10% of initial box office revenue. Apparently, the formal announcement will take a further week after creative issues are agreed between the three parties involved."
They could just rehash the Red Vs Blue videos in high quality and 5.1 and it would be hilarious all over again!
Where's my free iPod!? Until then, I'll settle for a kiss...
They are really making a movie out of a video game? I guess that I just don't understand.
I read this on google news like two days ago. I'm not complaining, but Slashdot is running a little behind on this one.
The irony of this movie is that all the graphics work will be done on Macs.
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You never know, it just might be then suddenly realizing: Holy sh*t! We forgot to make an ending to Halo 2! Quick let's jump on the bandwagon again and make a movie before Nintendo can release a Metroid movie or Id releases their Doom3 movie!
The major console makers and game studies should jointly create a studio, or an offshoot of one of the major ones that currently exists that will be responsible for making all game movies. This way the game companies will have a lot more decision making process and control over the content of the movies. Although something like this will never happen, it would prevent any chance of Halo being turned into a romantic comedy by some movie company who's bigwigs wouldn't know their ass from an Xbox.
Yeah, great, whatever. This was a non-event yesterday morning when it was all over the blogs. Now it's a pretty old non-event (in Internet terms).
I predict that we'll have a story about the guys dressed up as the Master Chief showing up at studios in Hollywood by tomorrow morning. And a story about them refusing to leave and about the guy who took off his helmet the day after that. Bah.
They already had like 5 bajillion hours of cut scenes in Halo 2.
Take out the game play in between, and you've got a movie that's longer than most of the ones coming out lately.
I'm sure it will be just as good as the game scripts.
plus 15% of the box office revenue
Notice Microsoft is smart enough to not want a cut of total profits. The history of movies is littered with the broken remains of writers who sold their movie rights for a percentage of the profits only to find that movies make no profits. It's called "Hollywood accounting". If you ever have, or ever know someone who is getting a movie deal, make sure the contract is for a cut of the box office take and not the profits.
either that or as bad as "Street Fighter: The movie: The Game"
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Staring 'Chiefing' Master Chief?
Hey, it could work.
I'm not a big Halo fan myself (fps don't belong on consoles, but that's a flame for another day) but it's kind of refreshing that the movie industry is whoring itself out to the gaming industry for once, instead of the other way around. I'm sick of crappy games being put out by every single movie, just as an extra boost for cash.
Of course, movies have been made before based on games, but Hollywood merely buys the name, and makes a craptastical movie having nothing to do with the actual game (see Resident Evil, Alone in the Dark, soon to be Doom 3) in hopes that the popularity of the name will bring revenue. Hopefully this time a gaming franchise will be saved from this fate due to Bungie's insistance on Hollywood following the Halo Bible.
...it's as good as Wing Commander. [leaps into flame-proof bunker]
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This movie is by no means a guaruanteed success. Let's take a look at the last few video game movies (Ignoring Pokemon):
Ok, I'm sure I missed. But the one that Halo most resembles in terms of popularity and a big budget is Final Fantasy. I really enjoyed that film, and I'm unsure why it did so poorly. But from MS's point of view, they have nothing at risk financially (maybe a lousy movie - and that didn't hurt the popularity of Mario's games). Expect to see trailers for Halo3 at the start of the HAlo Movie.
Should have won oscars.
I predict Halo will be bigger than Star Wars.
Its a good thing, now we can get another quality video game movie. I bet it will be as good as Mario Brothers, Wing Commander, or Resident Evil.
Heres hoping this movie totally bombs at the box office and the studios NEVER trust anything from Microsoft again.
Just start off with a new story. Use the characters, etc. But who says you need to follow the game-story of HALO 1 or 2?
I predict you're an idiot.
That bad, huh?
Um, isn't the Halo Bible just:
Shoot Aliens, Open Door, Repeat.
(and)
Halo really is just Ringworld meets Starship Troopers meets Doom - not very original, I'm pretty sure it will make a stinky movie.
Back to the game...
If they used the Marathon storyline as opposed to the Halo storyline. For those who don't know, Marathon, Marathon: Durandal, and the final Marathon were all for mac before MS bought Bungie. The first two had the best storylines ever, and were written by a different company than the 3rd and the Halo series. I really hope the first two are used for the storyline, as they are far superior in enough ambiguity to make it interesting (think: Bladerunner) and the best AI character development I've ever seen.
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
This capitalizing on video games is getting out of hand. It better be a good script.
I hope not. There must be more promising projects for any decent script writers to be working on.
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...they'll lean heavily on Eric Nylund's novelizations, which are pretty good. You need additional backstory and characterization to make a decent script out of Halo, and these books provide it.
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Making a movie about Halo or Halo 2 is a waste of time. If you have ever played Halo (do you really exist in this universe) or Halo 2, you know for a fact it should be a TV series. That's right folks, I said what should have been stated. Let's think about it. Doesn't the format of the game really make a cool series. Who wants to wait 2 to 3 years for a sequel? After all, the game will change faster than Hollywood could keep up. How would you like to wait over a year for a R vs B ? You wouldn't want to a neither do I. A movie is plain stupid. I want a new show every week. I like the new BSG (Battle Star Galactica) and don't want a movie of it, as it would suck (just like the Star Trek series are better than their movies).
I second this.
i will chop off all of your precious typing fingers for such blasphemy. even if it was a joke, such things should never be typed.
Even the tiny rabid xbox crowd is sick of Halo after the mess Halo 2 turned out to be.
I would rather sit through a fucking Tomb Raider movie than waste time watching a camera pan slow around that stupid shiny green helmet for an hour and a half. I can just hop on over to NVidia's dev site and get all the 'shiny shine' for free.
No thanks.
I thought Windows buyers were suckers. These ones are paying $5 million plus a % to actually promote a Microsoft product!
Double wow! Triple wow!
Just the other day, I overheard a number of noted French art-film directors and aficionados at La Petite Couchon, a Cannes sidewalk bistro, enthusing about how excited they were about the prospect of a Halo movie. They were also excited about a possible Halo II movie, and were practically beside themselves with joy at the idea of the angst, dystopianism and emotional involvement of the Master Chief being brought to the silver screen.
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Oh come on, we all know they just want to make a movie so they can make a game out of it! Those bastards! ... what, why is everyone staring at me?
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MS required final cut. They know how to make movies. This is one trainwreck I'm looking forward too seeing on MST2000.
Oh, they also requested 60 first class airfare seat for MS employees to attend the premier. Good plan, it would've doubled the audience.
Halo is a rip-off (no proceeds to the authors) of the award-winning science fiction novel by Jerry Pournell and Larry Niven. What a shame that the brilliant novel isn't coming to film, instead of the fun, but plotless video game.
"Microsoft are"...Borg?
2 out of 3 sentences use "apparently" at the start of every day...shouldn't you?
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We don't want them to combine those two movies into the much feared 2006 Blockbuster hit "A Lone Streetfighter in the Dark."
Quick, add some confusion by checking the Gay Niggers from Outer Space!
Whew...now they'll peice this one together a little differently, and the appocalypse will be staved off in this dimension. Or...
I Better go reserve the website, anticipating "Gay Nigger Street Fighters Alone In The Darkness Of Outer Space" (.com).
Hay now, potty and other sophomoric humor will make Halo the best game movie ever!
I'm just alarmed to hear that innocent Hollywood Execs have been hanging around with these Redmond types. Moral corruption is a terrible thing.
Once again, Hollywood on the cutting edge of what is cool. By the time they make the movie and sign Lorenzo Llamas or Lou Diamond Phillips to star in it, we will all have moved on to something else...
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Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not shoot things they were used to or jumps they could not perform that they previously could with their Half-Life engine. The final straw came when one player lost several hours of stats when Halo suddenly had an error reading from the Live! file server and corrupted his profile. Needless to say, the Halo team offered no support whatsoever. I made the friend uninstall Halo from the machines and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
Master Chief realizes that Master Chief isn't a rank in the marines. The end.
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My bet goes for Uwe Boll.
make a movie based on Halo and Halo-2.
I hope it is made from Halo 1, 2, AND 3. Halo 2 has no ending. It would be like ending the Matrix movies after Reloaded or somethi..... er.... uh....
I seem to have lost my point somewhere.
never mind.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Yeah, Asimov, Clarke, Card... they are all just about shooting aliens.
Anyhoo, point was not being disengenuous about sci fi stories, but more about pointing out that a game like Halo, which is in fact 'a hoot', doesn't really have any story/character whatsoever that people would feel emotionaly involved with... the key to a good yarn, book or movie.
It is just a good game, not very original, but well produced.
As long as Dennis Hopper gets casted for Master Chief i'll be damn happy. I'm looking forward to watching him in Romero's Land of the Dead. "Zombies man...creep me out"
Exceprt from Halo guide, The Story So Far:
"This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence."
Will the story be updated to show the problem is not with all members of the Covenant, but will be limited to those nasty "radical" Covenant believers?
Well, in my opinion, I think it would just become another scam to get gamers to go see a movie that will just suck. I did for some reason also like the Final Fantasy movie, but it would be mostly because I like cg animated films. So on that note, I will prolly end up seeing it anyway >_ . I just hope they don't end up killing it like most of the other movies they've made because of games. Read above post. I am starting to find the Halo games kind of boring as well. It get's very repeditive, so I hope they get rid of the repeditiveness on it. Well, that's my take on it.
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It was a "cartoon" movie that wasn't aimed, in almost any way, towards a younger audience. That alone had it dead in the water.
James Cameron want's a cut too since half of the Halo premise is just a rip off of his space marines and Aliens II story.
I wonder why microsoft just puts up the cash and makes there own movie studio and just do a publishing deal with the holywood publishers or just make there own publishing house? i mean they got the cash. Hell the marketing alone would be worth the price. -Jason
personally I am a big Halo fan, I just hope they team with Bungie and make the movie right, and not rewrite the story
A movie based on Halo. What a dumb idea. Another one based on Halo 2? HAHAHAHA.
Sorry to upset the fanboys but, it's just an FPS. It's a good FPS, it's right up there with the Quake series, but c'mon, a MOVIE? TWO MOVIES?
If they're going to do movies based on video games, they should do them based on ones that have actual plots...
Hmmm, a sci-fi with a lot of macho heroes, lots of guns and lots of demonic looking aliens. Is it Doom or Halo? Does it matter?
If you really thought that the combo in question could cause the apocolypse then I must say your conviction that adding that IMBD troll entry might stop it is akin to the conviction they guy had right befor sniping the red wire that he thought would dissarm the bomb, but instead tripled the countdown speed.
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Some how these game companies think that the real world would really dig their universe and the really OLD and SIMPLE stories they bring...
:-)
Come on... it will cost $50 million not even get out of short release and will end up bundled with the budget pack with Halo 4 on the PS3!
Who really cares... move along.
A movie made of a First-Person-Shooter game... well, atleast they don't have to pay anybody to play the lead character!
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Wow, let another CGI-fest with no script, characters that don't even qualify as one-dimensional and a cookie-cutter plot that would make even Michael Bay blush.
Video games don't make good movies people. They don't make good movies because the whole point of a video game is to give just enough background on the characters to get you to play them.
The Master Chief (and the marine in Doom 3, for that matter) have about as much personality as the robots in THX-1138. The arbitor is the only remotely interesting character in the game and even he is just the stock "bad guy turned good" character.
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Building a plot from the Covenant/Human war is pretty easy.
I mean, if they could make something out of Resident Evil's barely coherent story, then this must be similarly effortless, right? Resident Evil was good, wasn't it?
Macho heroes, guns, demonic creatures, it all brings in the llama whorde. What do they have to lose?
The easy part was getting the brain out, but the hard part was getting the brain out.
..Foundation the Movie.
With Vin Diesel as Hari Seldon and Jamie Foxx as the Mule with a climatic kung fu battle between the two.
One of the reasons why the stories for Halo and Halo 2 were good was because of the immersion. When you descended into flood infested areas, and all that pollen-like gunk filled the air with the dramatic music made some gamers hold their triggers a little too tightly. When Cortana gave the next objective, the gamer had to look ahead and see what obstacles were in their path.
Hollywood either has to carefully recraft the story so that it stands on its own without the intervening user controlled combat sequences, or somehow distill the essence of those FPS moments into something they can put on screen.
Either way it'll be tough.
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.. you forgot something:
Hollywood can resell the DVD of these movies forever.
Perhaps one day they will make up for the losses on some of the movies you named.. on the others.. just more money keeps on raining in.
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It's a good FPS, it's right up there with the Quake series...
Stop it, you are killing us!
Is it possible to kill the game with a movie? perhaps, but not if they let me direct it. I mean, yeah, if al they use is CG and like one real actor, then its gonna freakin suck, but if they try doing it with minimal CG then it will be much better. Oh, and they need to include the story in FALL OF REACH or its gonna die
Most of you probably don't shit about Halo and its REAL underlying story. The games are just small portions of the Halo universe's immense size and if a Halo movie is going to be made it will suck unless the studios take Halo seriously, actually learn and understand it unlike you ****tards, and capture its great story fully. To do this I believe that the first film must be Fall of Reach, the next Halo: The Flood, then Halo: First Strike, after that should be a movie for Halo 2, and finally the Halo 3 movie unless they continue the saga after the third game is made.