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

At least it won't matter if he changes the plot

[aurelian]

and the characters, like he did with Lord of the Rings.

Re:Yaup

[Anonymous Coward]

crap. This is patently false. Jason Jones worked on Halo and IS bungie (at least when you think of good bungie ideas) I bet you hate bungie because they were willing to sell themselves to microsoft for a fortune rather than continue plodding on as a mac developer.

"Some programmers and artists"

[kaffiene]

Who do you think Bungie ARE?

this is BS

[eobanb]

This is simply false; it wasn't like Bungie outsourced Halo to India or something, those 'programmers and artists' worked AT BUNGIE. They developed Halo in-house; it's totally different from what Microsoft did, which was buy Bungie and their near-complete game, add a Microsoft logo and sell it.