Peter Jackson to Executive Produce Halo Movie

e03179 writes "According to Reuters, 'the Oscar-winning creative team behind the The Lord of the Rings films, including director Peter Jackson, has been named to run the production of the upcoming film based on Microsoft Corp.'s blockbuster Halo video game, the company said on Tuesday.' The film will be shot in New Zealand and Jackson's production and post-production studios will be used. World-wide release is set for mid-2007 by Fox and Universal. The then rumor was started by Gamespot two weeks ago and was previously covered by Slashdot." Okay, *now* I'm interested. More details available on the Bungie site.

Comments

Who will Play the Aliens?

[Evil W1zard]

I wonder if he will finger through his Rolodex and use all of the hobbit extras to play the little freakish alien guys that run away from you on easy...

That's good but..

[marevan]

Rarely does the director (+team) do one great movie and proceed to make the next movie as great. I mean, it has a chance of becoming a good movie, but the background is not even close to the profoundness of booktrilogy, after all, we're talking about the game here.