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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.
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."
/infected" covenant as a member of a space SWAT team in mars (although the entire movie will take place indoors and in sewers) the "covenant" will be grown men wearing rubber chicken suits.
In other words: It will feature a very low and poorly used budget and will be about Master chief fighting human "mutant
In really few words: it will SUCK so much people will think it was made back in 2003.
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I thought Hollywood learned their lesson after Super Mario Brothers. But then they came out with Alien vs Preditor.
Alien vs. Preditor was a comic book.
Your basic point, that all movies based on videogames suck, remains valid.
And am I the only person who sees the irony that Halo is basically the same as Marathon (famous for being Macintosh only) but running only on wintel hardware?
No, but that just means you're not the only person who's wrong.
1. Halo is a sequel to Matathon 2, not the same game as Marathon.
2. Marathon 2 ran on Windows PC's (although, bafflingly, it would not allow you play on a cross-platform LAN with Mac users.)
3. Halo is available for the Mac.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Excellen7.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.