Halo Movie Slated For 2007

Master Chief is slated to come to the silver screen...in 2007. Gamespot reports that Fox and Microsoft have come to an agreement. From the article: "However, negotiating a movie deal proved as challenging as taking down a Covenant dropship, as several studios surprisingly passed on producing a Halo movie. The reason: film studios may be used to kowtowing to A-list actors' demands, but don't typically cave in to requests from non-Hollywood players. Initial reports saw the software giant asking for $10 million against 15 percent of the gross (whichever is higher), a below-the-line budget of $75 million (budget before hiring actors and crew), near-immediate production of the movie, and a large say in the creative development of the movie." Update: 08/23 20:59 GMT by Z : Fixed time travel problem.

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Article on Bungie.net

[Fred Or Alive]

Linky, and cue Firefox users complaining about Gecko's abysmal performance with certain design elements (but it's open source, so people can fix the problems! That've been there for about five years! Go go open source!).

I suppose it's fairly informationless,[1] although there is a link to a page from the "Bible" Bungie have prepared, which is vaugely interesting for Halo nuts (like me).

[1] Condensed version: Hollywood types wanted to make a Halo movie. We held back, and were advised to write our own script, and not to sign all the rights away. We got Alex Garland. He's written some good books and movies, and like Halo. We say the scripts great. Fox and Universal are the studios producing it.

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[Golias]

how mainstream could it be?

Several Dark Horse comics have been made into movies, such as Mystery Men, Barb Wire, Hellboy, The Mask, and Frank Miller's Sin City.

Also, if you look at the credits, the movie Alien vs. Predator was released by... ta-da! Dark Horse Entertainment.

So, the comic book publisher actually produced the film of the same title. Still want to make the case that it was "based on a video game"?