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Peter Jackson Won't Direct Halo

Posted by Zonk on from the gaaaahhh dept.

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.'"

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  1. Peter Jackson by Meagermanx · · Score: 2, Funny

    What? Someone directed an excellent, geeky series? They should make all geeky series, no matter the genre or subject matter of the film!

  2. Re:He would probably refuse in the first place. by Jarlsberg · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I think it'd be interesting to see Jackson helm the Halo movie project, but personally, I'm waiting for him to film the Hobbit. I hope he's still going to go ahead with that :).

    Uwe Boll must be cheap to hire. What else could explain Microsofts decision (if it was theirs to make) to use him for Halo. Maybe it was just poor editing on IMDB's case.

  3. Re:exchange rate? by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 4, Funny

    New Zealand may be Australia's equivalent to our Canada, but they were seperate countries last I checked. Had flags and everything.

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  4. What's so great about Peter Jackson by MBraynard · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is an honest request for an answer.

    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?

  5. Re:Ewww, Boll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to Bungie, the rumors stating that Boll will direct are "absolutely not true."

    http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=14056/