Microsoft Wondering About This Movie Thing

Via some considered analysis at Joystiq, an interview at the Mercury news with Microsoft's Robbie Bach. The article touches on a number of pieces of the Xbox business, and is quite interesting, but folks are focusing on his comments re: the Halo movie. From the piece: "Does it make sense for Microsoft to be in the movie business? It's not what we do, nor would I anticipate us ever doing it. So it's a different business with a different business model. We happen to have great intellectual property with Halo that could be made into a great movie. The No. 1 criteria for us is we have to be confident a great movie is going to be made. It doesn't matter if Universal and Fox do it or somebody else does it. Frankly, if we didn't think a good movie would be produced, we would rather have no movie."

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[spellraiser]

Hey, Microsoft ... get Uwe Boll to do the Halo movie. He has an impeccable track record of making excellent movies based on video games!

And oh, IMDB is a den of lies. Ignore whatever's said there.

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[greg1104]

Those games were never going to make good movies. What I think would be totally awesome was if someone released a movie based on that E.T. game for the Atari 2600.

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[Flounder]

Grim Fandango would make a very excellent movie. It seems that adventure games would make good movie properties, yet they always try to adapt action games.

I can think of several Infocom properties that would make good movies. Planetfall, Zork, and the best one of all, Leather Goddesses of Phobos!