Peter Jackson's long missing-in-action Halo project, Halo Chronicles, is "no longer happening", the Lord of the Rings director has finally confirmed.
Speaking in a brief interview with Joystiq, Jackson confirmed that the 'film/game' project collapsed when the Halo movie didn't end up happening, thanks to disputes over money by the film studios.
"Microsoft has a whole strategy with the Halo property, and when the rights expired with the two studios, that sort of ended my involvement with the project," he said.
"That fell apart because of internal politics at Fox and Universal. It had nothing to do with the budget or anything else. In fact, we hadn't even been greenlit at all at that point."
Neill Blomkamp's 'Halo Combat: Part I' Movie
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1:37Must see: Blomkamp's latest Halo movie, Combat: Part I, in glorious direct-feed-o-vision. Watch it. Now!
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Neill Blomkamp's 'Halo Combat: Part I' Movie
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1:37Must see: Blomkamp's latest Halo movie, Combat: Part I, in glorious direct-feed-o-vision. Watch it. Now!
The Halo film, which was due to be directed by newcomer Neil Blomkamp, has now seemingly morphed into sci-fi war film, District 9, which is due in cinemas next month.
"District 9 was definitely born out of the Halo film ruins, and we wouldn't have seen this movie if Halo had gone ahead. I have always felt that if fate is taking you somewhere, don't fight it.
"We realized that we had a real talent in Neill Blomkamp, so we decided to find a project for him and we decided to build a story around his Live in Joburg short film."
It's going to be painful watching the Halo movie that could've been.
Am I the only one somewhat happy about this? Halo's a great game, of that there can be no doubt, but remove the game aspect and the plot and characters aren't all that great, and would make for a fairly generic sci-fi action film (hello Doom). District 9 sounds like a far more interesting prospect, and conversely, would probably suffer were it made into a game.
Am I the only one somewhat happy about this? Halo's a great game, of that there can be no doubt, but remove the game aspect and the plot and characters aren't all that great, and would make for a fairly generic sci-fi action film (hello Doom). District 9 sounds like a far more interesting prospect, and conversely, would probably suffer were it made into a game.
You certainly aren't, although I was looking forward to these projects purely because I love the Halo universe and the involvement of Peter Jackson & Neil Blomkamp.
Am I the only one somewhat happy about this? Halo's a great game, of that there can be no doubt, but remove the game aspect and the plot and characters aren't all that great, and would make for a fairly generic sci-fi action film (hello Doom). District 9 sounds like a far more interesting prospect, and conversely, would probably suffer were it made into a game.
I wasn't so sure about the game, but if I had faith in anyone to make a good Halo film then it would be Peter Jackson.
He's proved that he's a master at transferring a story from one medium to another - in fact that's all he seems to be doing at the moment (see LotR, King Kong, The Lovely Bones and now Tintin). I'm pretty sure he could take it from a game.
I wasn't quite so sure about the story portrayed in Halo transferred to film either, but then I read "The Flood", and that tells you what happened from a much more cinematic point of view.
Halo + Peter Jackson and WETA = one very cool movie. A movie will happen eventually I think, though I expect Ewe Boll will manage to somehow get his talentless fingers on it and crush every Halo fans dreams.
But yeah, at least there's the Hobbit to look forward to, even though they don't duel wield SMG's...
A shame. This sounded like a brillant game when first announced, but I had a terrible feeling it was cancelled for a long time when we didn't hear anything about it.
A shame. This sounded like a brillant game when first announced, but I had a terrible feeling it was cancelled for a long time when we didn't hear anything about it.
Isn't Jackson producer or executive producer or something for the Hobbit though. I'm not surprised the Halo:Chronicles has gone under, but what took so long for someone to tell us? I bet Microsoft were just pretending it was still going ahead to add another +1 in the console war.
Nooooooooooo! I had so hoped the teaser video was merely a low-budget taste of what was to come. Granted, since I haven't watched "District 9" yet it might get some of the "bang", but I am not optimistic of this. The whole draw for me was to see the "Halo" universe come to life in a movie theater. Futuristic sci-fi war movies are just about a dime a dozen.
Am I the only one somewhat happy about this? Halo's a great game, of that there can be no doubt, but remove the game aspect and the plot and characters aren't all that great, and would make for a fairly generic sci-fi action film (hello Doom). District 9 sounds like a far more interesting prospect, and conversely, would probably suffer were it made into a game.
I wasn't so sure about the game, but if I had faith in anyone to make a good Halo film then it would be Peter Jackson. He's proved that he's a master at transferring a story from one medium to another - in fact that's all he seems to be doing at the moment (see LotR, King Kong, The Lovely Bones and now Tintin). I'm pretty sure he could take it from a game.
I wasn't quite so sure about the story portrayed in Halo transferred to film either, but then I read "The Flood", and that tells you what happened from a much more cinematic point of view.
that was just fabricated by the creative comic writers, a spin-off.
or did they consult they all mighty halo bible.
a list of invented facts because they had no actual heritage.
most buffs like to absorb subtle things through years of content. a bit cheesy to invent them first then apply in a retro manner.
If you take a moment to think about it everything, at some point, had "no heritage" when you go back far enough...Unless you know things that go beyond the "Big Bang Theory" that the collective human scientific community doesn't? Even things that seem to have a heritage today can be classified as such by the very fact that they are dependant upon that heritage to exist which in turn was dependant upon some other thing, and so on and so forth, until you get to the very beginning. What came before then?
that was just fabricated by the creative comic writers, a spin-off.
or did they consult they all mighty halo bible.
a list of invented facts because they had no actual heritage.
most buffs like to absorb subtle things through years of content. a bit cheesy to invent them first then apply in a retro manner.
Well, I know the books are written with Bungie's supervision so that facts, timelines and whatnot all work. Not sure about the comics, but they probably are too.
Don't quite follow you with the 'invented facts' statement- of course they're 'invented facts', that's what fiction is.
that was just fabricated by the creative comic writers, a spin-off.
or did they consult they all mighty halo bible.
a list of invented facts because they had no actual heritage.
most buffs like to absorb subtle things through years of content. a bit cheesy to invent them first then apply in a retro manner.
Well, I know the books are written with Bungie's supervision so that facts, timelines and whatnot all work. Not sure about the comics, but they probably are too.
Don't quite follow you with the 'invented facts' statement- of course they're 'invented facts', that's what fiction is.
The games, books, graphic novel and Halo Legends will be/are all canon.
And yes, believe it or not some of these writers actually made some things up to make an entertaining fiction game...shock horror.
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