So, we've had some bad news today (i.e. Arrested Development), but now some good news (potentially) is on the way.  HALO, the movie we all thought was left to die, has been resurrected!

 

aster may have been last weekend, but now comes news of another unexpected resurrection - the film adaptation of hit XBOX video game series "HALO".

 

Though the previous film version with Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") directing and Peter Jackson producing seem to have died a while back, last week Microsoft Game Studios' franchise development director Frank O'Connor revealed that there's still life in the old girl yet.

 

According to IGN while speaking about the property at the MI6 Conference in San Francisco last week, O'Connor said "We're going to make a movie when the time is right. We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically."

 

The major reason for the film will be an admittedly cynical cash grab, a move not without repercussions - "We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic."

 

Rejoice, masses, for your savior has come again!

Woohooooooo!

 

The test shots that came out a while back before it was canned looked awesome, this needs to happen.

 

Hopefully it happens in the right way, though...

Have you seen the first 8 minutes of the film?

 

 

Yeah it's so good.

 

Soooooooooo good. I sit there and drool every time I happen upon it...*sigh*

 

I hope it turns out like that. Obviously higher quality, but same 'feel'.

Eh, despite the equipment and setup, the video still seems... amateurish.

It's just a test shot I'm fairly sure. I'm quite confident the Halo IP owners wouldn't let a substandard product out the door.

It looks a lot like District 9, and that's because Neil Blomkamp directed District 9 and directed the Halo clip.  I don't think he will be directing anymore, though.

I wonder how whoever get's the job will do. I have mixed feelings about Peter Jackson's involvement or lack of it.

 

The Warthog they actually made was freakin' awesome though.

and the rocket launcher looked amazingly accurate.  I love how they had the hammer guy, that was freaking sweet

I never played Halo the same after watching that video hah.

 

*savours the sweet sensation of BR to the head*

Dude, we need to rip it some time...like today

Will have to wait my friend, I work and sleep until next tuesday, with a bit of football practice thrown in.

 

I'm pretty sure you already have me added anyway, I need to renew my gold account status though. Especially with Reach beta coming up...

 

But uh yeah. Halo Movie. Could be sweet, don't know what story they'd use/pull out.

Yeah, but aren't we on totally different time zones?  I have no idea when you play.

Completely different.

 

But next Tuesday, at roughly this time, I will be playing if you like. It's like what...midday or evening over yonder?

 

Rally the troops!

It is currently 9pm in the beautiful US

I'll go post something in the gamer's forum. See if we get a whole bunch o' chumps to BR to the dome.

*Is sad he never got to rip with Rouge*

 

Anyways, more news!

 

After several studios failed in their attempts to adapt the property several years ago, DreamWorks Pictures is having a go at getting a film based on the "Halo" video game franchise off the ground reports Vulture.

 

To avoid any possible legal difficulties in regards to the previous failed attempts, the studio is apparently looking into adapting some of the many novelizations set in the "Halo" universe. At this point, no writer has been hired.

 

Though still interested in making a movie, game owner Microsoft isn't keen on this attempt with a source close to the company saying "It's a gigantic waste of time, because [Microsoft] doesn't want anything to happen in any other media that could screw up a multi-billion dollar franchise."

 

The attempt comes after the hugely successful launch of the game title "Halo: Reach" which pulled in $200 million dollars on its launch day and demonstrated that interest in the franchise remains at sky high levels.

oh my goodness this looks amazing! Can't wait for this to come out. It's the music that does it for me though.