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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.
How about "Red vs Blue"? ...oh, wait...
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
By the time he's done with Halo, it should be just about time to start filming Duke Nukem Forever.
From Wikipedia:
An executive producer of a motion picture is typically a producer who is not necessarily involved in any creative or technical aspects of production. They generally handle business issues, and may be a financier of a movie. Some executive producers act as representatives of the studio or production company that is releasing or producing a film, occasionally being credited as Executive in charge of production.
So, um, why does it matter that he's doing this?
Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
Pong.
The touching movie about two lines and the square ball they share.
Has Hollywood run out of ideas?
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:)
Went to see Serenity this weekend and they showed Doom trailer that
featured nice shots of something being poked at with a chainsaw
The story line seemed to be unintrusively good too - "Mars. Horrible
disaster. If it breathes, shoot it."
Opens in late October 2005.
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This is why the movie industry is going down the tubes. They're making a movie about a bloody video game, one that's basically a bug-shoot from start to end. If this is the kind of thing that gets the big bucks for movie rights, then the industry's loss of imagination has doomed them.
Halo is the perfect example of how Microsoft can buy a great product and put it's name on it like they had crap to do with the development.
Or, like Disney with a Pixar film. Or American Airlines with a Boeing aircraft. People who put a product out in front of that product's consumers/users generally have their name associated with it. But I suppose you're the sort that never reads the credits, and assumes that no one else does, either. Do you really think that MS's cash, audience, game platform, etc., has nothing to do with the success of the game? I think Pixar's work is fantastic... but I know that the success of say, the Toy Story franchise, is at least partly owed to Disney's professional marketing teams - even though they didn't color a single pixel. Don't pretend that marketing isn't important. Great games with no marketing frequently fail. Mediocre games with lots of marketing often get results. But great games with great marketing really attract an audience, and that's why it's done. Disney coughed up a lot of money into marketing and distribution in its partnership with Pixar, just like MS does with the games they front. Of course, things with Pixar/Disney have gotten a little rough lately. That will definitely be too bad for Disney, since only Pixar can do what Pixar does.
Come on, admit it. You're worried that Jackson will make a very cool (or at least, successful) movie, and that MS will get a little street cred buff as a result of having been involved with the product's successfully large audience.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Remember an article awhile back that described the difficulties Bungi was having in finding a studio to pick up the movie rights because of all the creative control they wanted? This is the direct result. Tried and true performance being signed on. If only all studios would take such care with their properties to demand that they have a say in its adaptation then we might not have the likes of Uwe Boll at all (Or the Super Mario movie *shudder*). I personally applaud Bungi for actually caring about their game and characters and pushing a studio to do the right thing, instead of the cheap action flop-o-rama on a somewhat shoestring budget. But of course, this is all just the optimist in my talking. And to the above person who quoted the definition of the "producer"; do you really think Peter Jackson is going to involve himself with a movie and take the hands off approach? His track record to this date would say no.
I am and always will be a stereotype, because who in their right mind prefers mono?
studio exec: "hey jackson, can we use weta to make a movie out of a video game?"
jackson: "yeah, sure, why not, there's some free time on the servers between king kong wrapping up and us putting 'the hobbit' into preproduction"
studio exec: "ok thanks"
newslines scream: peter jackson, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF HALO THE MOVIE
but the above exchange is about the sum total of his involvement in the movie folks, sorry
the title "executive producer" is like getting the key to the city from the mayor: that key opens about as many real doors as the executive producer is involved in any real movie making work
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Master Chief will be written out to make way for a Tom Bombadil character, in order to finally quell all those whining LOTR poetry nerds. (That's right, all six of them.)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
...do we need a remake of Starship Troopers already?
Please for the love of god, don't have the chief take his helmet off. You could save a lot of money by not showing his face. This is IMHO a large part of his character. His voice can be powerful and not show his face. Much the same they did with Darth Vader.
WURD!!
Starring Al Pacino as "L"
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