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Peter Jackson Won't Direct Halo
The ever excellent Rumor Control column on Gamespot deals with a couple of good ones this week. The bubble I wish they hadn't popped concerns the upcoming Halo movie adaptation. While IMDB listed Uwe Boll as the director earlier this week, the internets began circulating with the rumor that LOTR Director Peter Jackson might be taking the helm. From the article: "The green valleys and lush terrain of New Zealand, where Jackson filmed Rings, would make a nice stand-in for Halo's surface landscape. Lastly, there's the matter of the country's favorable exchange rate, which made shooting Rings much less expensive than it would have been if it had been made in the States--and the same could be done for Halo ... In this case, it was seen by someone with a sick sense of humor, because, according to a rep from Universal, the Peter Jackson rumor is 'completely untrue.'"
Considering the quality of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, and the expectations for Doom, I don't think he would want to spoil his career with a videogame->movie adaptation.
What? Someone directed an excellent, geeky series? They should make all geeky series, no matter the genre or subject matter of the film!
Weird comment about Australia's exchange rate. What does that have to do with Peter Jackson? Can't Uwe Boll just as easily go to Australia to film the movie? Unless he isn't welcome there..
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It will be made some day.
The problem with Halo isn't that it is a bad story, it's that it just dreadfully boring. I guess there are a lot of people who still salivate over anything with that shiny metal effect on things in games. Quaint I guess.
There was a time long ago when Bungie didn't suck. It's not clear if it was the sell out to Microsoft did the damage or if it was something else internally. Halo 2 is the first game that was pretty much completely developed after the buyout and it should be a pretty go indication of downward spiral the company is on.
While I can't say I'm a huge fan of the Halo franchise -- I've played the first game on a friend's xbox, and enjoyed the PC demo's multiplayer for about half an hour when it came out -- I understand that the novelizations aren't half bad, and I'd hate to see Uwe Boll do the Halo universe the same damage he's done to other titles I'm attached to. I refuse to watch the Alone in the Dark movie because, from what I've heard, what he did to the story isn't worth my time, nevermind my money. Under no circumstances would a movie based on Halo ever be great cinema. But the fans deserve more than a Boll treatment. I'm not sure if Jackson is the man with the job, but there have to be plenty of decent directors who wouldn't mind taking on what's likely to be a reasonably succesful film for its genre, if its done right.
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My mom is a big fan of the books so every Christmas day for three years in a row, one of my gifts to her was to bring her to a theatre to watch the film. She seemed to enjoy them.
I, however, missed the point. It was a straight up adventure film - and a very pretty one - but had no depth to it. I only read the Hobbit so I don't know the details of what the story was suppose to be. But what the movie featured, ultimatly, very ugly people in a war with very pretty people, and the very pretty people won and established a dictatorship.
Did I miss something?
UNCONFIRM RUMOR ABOUT MOVIE HALO 2 FOUND UNTRUE!!!
This is slashdot right?
I'm looking around and I dont see a lame gif of Harry Knowles so it must be.
seriously Zonk this was deemed news worthy?
Whats next a scathing review of Blood Rayne?
Master Chief (always accompanied by gruff, bad-ass voice: Well, looks like my suit is even better equiped to deal with the Covenent armada.
(enter subplot) Arbiter (always a high-distingued, but also just plain high, mysterious voice): Except the good Covenent. Remeber, the Elite don't want to destroy the humans. At least, not untill we've finished dealing with those overgrown apes.
MC: Oh, forgot about the flood. Gotta shoot the shit outta them on the way.
A: Damn right, Cheif. Watch out, though. There might be another playable charecter for the flood. It's the next logical step
five cases of beer, 7 million rounds of ammunition and plasma, countless disposable marine deaths, 12 hours of sheild charging, a few stickies, and two ring explosions later
MC: Wasn't that awesome when I stickied that brute and he blew up?!
A: Hell yeah, wasn't it great when I snipered that jackel's head while he wasn't looking?
MC: Hey, I wonder if Cortana does lap dances?
Cortana: Aw, shit.
THE END
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Good. I'm glad he doesn't waste his Sci-Fi luck before he makes the third Star Wars trilogy. (*wink wink nudge nudge*)
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Who in the hell ever decided that Uwe Boll should get any money for making movies? That no-talent hack has been making crap movies for years (just take a look at the ratings offered on IMDB). I don't care if he's been making movies since he was a child with Hi-8, I bet they were crap too.
If they hand the Halo adaptation off to him, Microsoft will be destroying their Halo brand.
What will it take for companies to tell Uwe Boll to drown himself? Seriously?
I saw this and first thought, "Good" since I'd rather Peter Jackson do something a bit more original like a Hobbit movie since theres something to the original content in the first place. Halo was a fun game and all, but seriously, much like a Doom movie, what are you really left with? Thin plot (better than Doom, but lets face it, science fiction books covered Halo's territory about 20 - 30 years previously and did it a lot better) with a whole lot of gun fire & explosions. Not to say this isnt entertaining but really, seems unneeded with the abundant availability of action movies.
That rolls into my real comment: frig Halo, why not take a real step and make a Ringworld movie? You already have a symbol that everyone recognizes (the Halo), and you could easily market it as 'the thing that inspired Halo'. Right there, you've got the serious scifi geeks and the Halo fanboys in 1 scoop. I admit Ringworld would need to be 'spiced' up a tiny bit to keep watchers attention since the book was more of an exploration of a world rather than a character-centric story. But even there, you have excellent character diversity: the puppeteer, the human male & female, and the feline-like Kzin. Just have writers improve upon the dialogue & create more character interest without ignoring the fact that its really the Ringworld that is the true focus. I do not consider Ringworld to be my favorite science fiction stories or even really high up on that list, but really, if Slashdot is going to talk about making a movie about a game based on a book, we might as well skip all the mainstreaming and go straight back to the source. Who knows, we may even get a decent movie out of it.
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They should get Sean Stewart and Elan Lee to write the screenplay. They're the only ones to make a compelling story out of Halo yet.
Seriously...didn't they basically make a Halo movie (sans video) with I Love Bees? Oh wait, we're not supposed to talk about that. Our delicate nerd sensibilities are offended by the smell of advertising, and Halo fanboys hate to hear that something they didn't have to pay fifty dollars for had better writing and voice acting than their adorable little "BEST GMAE EVAR!" Cognitive dissonance, kiddos. Look it up. Wait, no, I'll save you the trouble.
Ringworld, if properly done, could be the best SciFi movie of all time. The book is written in an extremely visual style that would translate to the screen excellently. Until recently the technology to do it well was not available, but if the film industry feels that a puppeteer can now be convincingly be portrayed, it is time!