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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.
Behind schedule already, I see.
Can someone inform me when Microsoft / Bungie are travelling back in time, so I know when to go to Blockbuster and borrow the DVD that'll be out by now in the new timeline. :-)
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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.
Go ahead MOD my day!
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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.
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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Excellen7.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
Yes, yes I could. I would like him to make us all a nice quiche.
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
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"?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.