The Halo Movie is "Dead"
Source: Creativity Online
October 5, 2007


Creativity Online has posted a new interview with Neill Blomkamp who was set to the big screen Halo movie until everything went downhill last year. Here's a quote on the movie:

The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren't getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it's been dead, ever since then. I'll be curious to see what happens.

Meh... I don't really like Halo anyways.

Would have been like every other live action VG adaptation: shit.

pity. i wanted to see this one. well hope snake doesn't end up like The Chief eh people?

You have a point there ^_^

it would have been a good movie to see

stupid film companies :angry:

Peter Jackson was the director. Nobody seriously thought you could make a good LOTR that was true to the books, and he proved them wrong. He would of made it work.

Jackson was attatched til he read the piece of shit script they came up with for it. After that Halo was shelved (which was nearly a year ago now I think), it comes as no suprise that they're not bothering at all with it now. Its not exactly a compelling plot, its been done a million times before.

I believe it's a million and three times now...

Halo's Plot in a nutshell:

Theres these aliens/zombie-aliens and uh they want to kill everything, but it's alright your an Adeptus Astartes rip off, so just go ahead and kill everything in sight with the cliche weapons.

Meh who are we kidding, we would all have watched it.

For all you nay sayers about a Halo movie being bad...

Just watch this:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24179.html

and part 2 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGzxiGUbZIA

They were directed by both Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp on a somewhat limited budget, and look at what they came up with.

Whether they skrew it up or not, it doesn't really matter... Good marketing will make people watch it no matter what... Whether I'll watch it, I'll wait for a (real) trailer to pop up then I'll decide...

Not really. People generally tend to watch movies if they are good. If the Halo movie turns out good, people will watch it.

They can market the hell out of Hitman, but it aint gonna make me watch it.

Okay, I saw the clip for it, BELIEVE me guys, this is good news. This movie was just so poorly made in every way. I mean there are certain games that could make for good movies, and there are some that can't.

Halo, with all that high tech nonsense, would make for a very shitty movie, aliens, those grunts and brutes in real life images were just horrible. The special affects and camera made this look like an independent film like Philantrophy.

VG Movie adaptations have yet to be any good. Lara Craft, Resident Evil, Super Mario, Hitman, all of them, fail out the ASS. So why do people keep making them? Resident Evil had potential and so did Tomb Raider, but both fucked up. RE should've stuck with original story, that'd have been interesting. Tomb Raider, isn't necessarally a major failure, the second one was interesting, but it's still nothing spectatular.

I highly doubt you saw a clip of it. Esp. considering nothing has been shot yet.

Being a screenwriter has a LOT of advantages kiddo. One being in class we are all shown pilots which are never to be released to the public, and the other is seeing clips you guys normally won't see.

EDIT: Well, I don't know, if this is fake, then whatever. But these clips are shit.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=d6g1yyWEfks

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YvKjQrCYNvo&mode=related&search=

At least the Gears of War movie is still coming out :thumb:

big k that is not the movie for halo. those are short clips that were made to promote the halo 3 game and while they arent uber awesome with the effects and dialogue they are pretty amazing for being produced on a low budget

Idk in my opinion he didnt do a great job in King Kong. I could see a 2 star movie in Halo.

BigK... I don't know what to tell you. Your not a real screenwriter. Sure you write 'Uwe Boll scripts' that don't follow the correct screenplay format, but you don't have a credible background on it.

Have you written any major movies? Can you produce quality material that ranges from comedy to tragedy? Can you create characters with REAL dimension and depth? Can you really portray real drama and emotions?

Its tough. I know. I've been trying to peice together a script myself using characters with depths and flaws and not only that, but putting them in a story that really churns your emotions while still being a solid action script. I mean, actually incorporating tradegy on par with Oedipus Rex in a god damn action script.

I've been peicing it together for about a year, and I haven't got a solid page down.

Too be honest, I'm much more interested in character depth and development and toying around with it to create something that clicks then testing it with real drama and seeing your character fall apart emotionally. Too me that is what real script writing is about. I could care less about details and action scenes.

This is really truly the only role of the script writer. He creates a crude series of scenes and events, but a complete script of the characters. Everything else is up to the director, the executive producer, the cinematographer, costume designer, and the art director... and maybe a military advisor.

Your just putting too much information in. Its easy to get suckered into the details, but when you start doing it, your taking the role of everyone else.

So yeah, its hard. But it is a sign of a professional screenwriter who knows what he/she is doing.

and just because your a struggling screenwriter, it doesn't mean they just show random people promo clips.

ESP. movies as big as Halo.


And its easy to see that your also inexperienced in the realm of the movie industry. You can quickily see that the clip you posted was USER MADE. It says it RIGHT THERE on the friggin DESCRIPTION!


And the live action parts were already announced to us on the internet AGES AGO. (Look at my previous post on this topic)

ITS NOT MOVIE FOOTAGE. Its simply just shorts to help sell the game.

Sorry to rag on you about your scripts, but I had to make a point. If I come out as angry and exhasperated to you, believe me, I'm not. I am as calm as buddah.

I myself am a big movie buff and I do watch a LOT of movie trailers. And I mean ALOT.

So I can pretty much watch anything anyone throws at me and easily point out which ones are fan made and which ones are authentic. I can even give a rough estimate of the movie budget just by watching the trailer, given that the movie has been completed at the time the trailer has been put together.

And I am ALWAYS up to date on movie news. ALWAYS.

If you want to discuss the art of scriptwriting, I will be more than happy to do so as long as its a new topic.

Damn, I thought Halo would make a good movie.

The halo bit, okay I was confused on that, I apologize. Pilots was what I meant to say, our professor showed us those clips to show why certain movie adaptations don't work, he thought it was real because of all the comments and what not, I'm just rolling with what I'm told. But either way, I still think Halo movie being cancelled is a good thing, I mean how great of a movie could that have really been?

But I do follow proper screenplay format, why the hell else would I be in FTV60C? Can I follow proper screenplay format, yes I can, and yes I do. Have I produced and productive material, I'll find out when I turn in my 07 portfolio kiddo, I'm hoping Dementium Effect can gain SOME interest, but it's only my second draft, I won't be able to sell it until it's flawless, that could be at least another 15 drafts from now. Can I create characters with depth? lol, Dude the only thing that follows proper screenplay format that I've posted here is my second draft of Second Skin, even then I added (Voiced by's) and chapter titles. Characters is something I spend hours making. It's hard, I know, that's been pounded in my fucking skull since I got into this business. The pay is shit, the workload is immense, and it requires dedication, something I have, no matter how hard this gets, I don't give a fuck, I'm a screenwriter. Just because I haven't sold anything doesn't mean shit, I haven't gone to any screenwriting conventions yet because I'm busting my ASS off to get Dementium Effect good enough to where it shines there, or can shine to producers when my agent pitches it to them, so don't tell me you're a movie buff, and use that as an excuse to show me up on screenwriting. Believe it or not, I know what I need to know, I've read Ackerman's book, I'm half way through the third course in screenwriting, I've reviewed and worked with screenwriters, and I have already dedicated as much as I can to Dementium Effect, already tearing out my hair in aspects to the script. This is my profession, I know what I'm doing man, okay? I got three editors already biting my ass, not to mention the screenwriters at Simplyscripts, I don't need to get my ass bitten here too, okay?

I shouldn't have mentioned being a screenwriter, but again, that's one lesson I learned in 60A, most, if not all game adaptations are crap, same reason why I don't have hopes for the MGS movie. So why would I hope for Halo to be any different?

And if I want to discuss scripts, I'll talk with the Simplyscripts guys or Barak. I don't mean to come off as harsh, but when someone basically tells me I don't know dick about screenwriting when they haven't read shit of my real work, or when they hardly know how much fucking time I've spent on my fucking second draft, yeah I'll get edgy, because I don't appreciate being told that especially through this second draft period, but if for whatever reason I do offend, I apologize.

Would you mind posting a bit of your more serious work?

I'll tell you what, I won't post it here, but I will however post a link to a pdf file of the full screenplay second draft when it's finish.

Anyway, back on topic, anyone else as glad as I am that this movie isn't making it to the light of day?

oh well :lol:

Thanks for a useless bump.

*warned*