Halo Movie Scribe Talks Game Faithfulness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 14, 2006 @04:57AM from the as-long-as-it's-good dept.

simoniker writes "Author DB Weiss has confirmed that he's currently writing a Halo movie screenplay for producers that include LOTR/King Kong's Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. When asked whether he was concerned about criticism from the long-time fans of any of his movie adaptations, Weiss commented: 'There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.' In fact, Weiss suggests of this particular issue: 'If you did do a 100% faithful version, 999 times out of 1000 it would be a mess, and even the 5%-ers would recognize as much.'"

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Could be worst... by __aaclcg7560 · 2006-07-14 05:00 · Score: 3, Funny

When the guy who made "Silent Hill" was asked how he made his movie, he replied in a magazine article: "Suck and blow just like Uwe Boll!"
Well, at least DOOM was faithful and successful! by Patented · 2006-07-14 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Just like Mortal Kombat, Houses of the Dead, and Super Mario Brothers...

Oh, wait...

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Re:our preoccupation with crap by david.given · 2006-07-14 07:10 · Score: 2, Funny

U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'
That was nine years ago.