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- Nazuel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+54Breathe not Breath! Dammit. Sorry, one of my pet peeves.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35I'm not sure if it'll breath life into it.
it might breathe life into it though.
if they make it properly epic and badass, instead of doing something stupid, like let uwe boll touch it. - guitarh3ro, on 10/11/2007, -10/+43You people bashing the movie are idiots. Halo could be amazing if they did a good job, and especially if they could pull it off with the story line and the types of sequences that were pulled off in Haloid.
I do agree that Neill is a noob when it comes to directing, but as long as Peter Jackson is producing it, I'm sure he'll be able to easily persuade Neill into making the best choices. I do think Peter Jackson directing the Halo movie would be far better, but we should probably trust Peter Jackson's judgment and have at least a little faith in Neill.
Also, on a side note, Neill has done great jobs for special effects for Smallville and Stargate-SG1.
Have faith, Halo fans. - oldtimegamer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Well since Uwe Boll isn't going to be making the film. I would say that chances are pretty good.
- sctechguy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+16Breath: what you take when you draw air into your lungs.
Breathe: the action of inhaling and exhaling air into and out of your lungs, giving you life. - cypher543, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15We get it already! So he spelled a word wrong. Let it go.
- cypher543, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"Hollywood showed them that game movies rarely make a dime"
But that never stopped them from making those movies anyway. - joaob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7The game has a massive story behind it. You've obviously never played it and have no clue about the "Halo Universe" (however dorky that sounds) so why do you even bother coming into this story making comments as if you do know.
Also Peter "*****" Jackson is the producer that is backing this film, do not ask Peter "*****" Jackson why. - guitarh3ro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I'm pretty sure no one can be worse than Uwe Boll.
- slicedoranges, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I swear, there is not another person in the world who can spell "breathe."
- zzz@tkz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's not the fact that you don't like the movie or not, its for using thing such as "M$". Believe it or not, Nintendo and SONY are out to make money as well, hell, not even companies that have to do with gaming do, do we want to start calling it Nabi$co?
- ChillyEli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Doesn't Microsoft have billions anyways?
So they put down $300 Million into making this movie. They make it back in just in the theaters alone.
Then come the movie promotions plus the people who are sitting there going "Wow....that wasn't a bad movie......It's based off of a video game?" (all 2 of you) video game promotion.
Then afterwards the DVDs with the special "behind the scenes of the video games" that have already been produced and placed online (though people like me have missed and would rather have on DVD anyways). Next thing you know you have $500 Million or more sitting in your pocket.
Microsoft. As one of the biggest money makers in the world, take on this project. 100% return on investment.
Hell give me a link to the pre-order and I will pre-order the DVD JUST to see this movie made and made right (Peter Jackson can do this ***** without any sweat). - Jinno, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3First off I'll complain at the guy claiming that Nylund ruined the story. No he did NOT. The Halo story is one about survival, and being careless as many are in the game is not the way to go. It makes much more sense, if not only for the fact that they're y'know, Spartans, is to have them focused on teamwork and caution. I assure you that no actual military ops are planned as they are in the game, where you're dropped in with little to no intel on the situation, no intel on enemy movements, and no intel on strongholds. The game is fun, but if you take the story to be about the Master Chief and his fellow Spartans being bullet sponges you're mistaken.
Now then, to the important stuff. I am in agreement, Neil Blomkamp is very underqualified experience wise for this movie. But anyone who says that Peter Jackson intends to shirk work just because he's not directing is a fool. He's participating plenty with all aspects of the Haloverse, and he's directing a new direction for Halo Games. Don't spread rumors about Jackson.
So why am I not obtuse and against Blomkamp's directing it? Because you have to get a start somewhere, and if the man is as passionate about Halo as Jackson will defend, I think it better for him to get his start in that field. With Bungie's watchful eye, Jackson's mind for movies, and the fresh directions that Blomkamp will take the movie, I feel no reason to suspect anything less than a hit. - Patogrande, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Geez, you'd think that Jackson as a producer would inspire confidence...
- HouseofEl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think the studios that backed out are fearful that Halo 2 was sort of a fluke in the industry just because of the sheer hype. Therefore they will wait to see how Halo 3 does in terms of sales. Besides it took Jackson years to get someone to back the lord of the rings. I don't see this as any different. It's untested grounds in terms of money. Sure there have been video game movies, but nothing on the true blockbuster scale. As long as Halo 3 makes a bundle, the film should get more interest. The concern is a valid one considering the money that is involved. You can easily say that Jackson has the golden touch, but that really isn't a given. Making the movie identical to the game isn't going to make it a success. They have to show that they can successfully create a story that will satisfy the fans, but also bring in the general public. I have no doubt that Jackson and Blomkamp can pull it off. However, it's still not an easy sell even with the popularity of the game.
- rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4chocobomog
You know, they said the same crap about Quentin and Rodrigez...
Neil's shorts are better than most movies out there, its not just the effects, its his choice of shots and most of time, the *subtle* use of CG. - fuzzynyanko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That doesn't sound too off. Square made its own movie studio. Why can't Microsoft?
- chocobomog, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4@sultantravi
"The games are about doing and receiving lots of damage, and using your shields for protection"
This is where I disagree. Master Chief is a soldier and the best of the best. But he is still a (augmented) human, flawed and vulnerable. Playing him as an invincible damage-sponge character takes away from the suspense and danger. Every covenant/flood has the power to kill Master Chief even with his shield and it is up to his training to keep him alive. He does do espionage missions, he is not supposed to go in guns a-blazing because he can be killed much like his other (dead) Spartan brothers. Try playing the games on legendary and you will understand. And while an argument could be made the John 117 is the best Spartan, the other Spartans are just as powerful and yet flawed. They can be killed and their shields only leveling the playing field against the covenant, not make them gods. - loves2spooge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@guitarh3ro
the point is they're most likely NOT to do a good job, as they'll just throw money at it hoping that'll be enough...
...like most game to movie features. - qwerty1024, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And nearly went bankrupt in the process
- DNABeast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Well, I put money against Halo's success on the Hollywood Stock exchange and made a pretty penny over the last few months.
Although this latest news has paniced me and I've covered it. - Fox318, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2A Halo movie would be AWESOME!!!! All it needs to be is an *cue Don LaFontain* ACTION PACKED MOVIE with SOMEBADASS as MASTER CHIEF alongside SOME SEXY WOMAN as Cortana.
But Jackson and Weta need to finish the Evangelion Live Action movie first. - MissinSoCal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2They Said lord of the rings would be impossible to make into a movie, and Peter Jackson did it. While I know he's not the director if he believes in it than I'm convinced. May this finally be the movie I can slap in the face of all those who keep saying all video game spin-off movies suck. Come on didn't you people see Mila Jovovich. I mean Resident Evil.
- ChillyEli, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm too late to edit my own comment. But doesn't Bill Gates have that as pocket change? Hell Bill. Take a little money out of what you will donate to charity this year, put out a movie, reap the awards, and then place the money you spent on the movie AND the profit you will make from it into charities. BAM!!. It would almost be like you ONLY want to give to the world.
I can see the headlines now. "Bill Gates Profits From Halo Film. Donates All To Charity".
Windows what? - Nati2atl06, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@ chocobomog
How on hell one minute you say you read the books, then the next you say "The game's story isn't anything new (it borrows heavily from Aliens and Starship Troopers)"....SHUT THE HELL UP! Anyone who read the books know damn well that Halo story involves nothing similar to Aliens or StarshipTroopers. Halo had deep ass story that has kept us guessing till the end. The Halo game story mode is very dumbed down. If the game some how included the story for the novels, there wouldn't be one FPS out that Halo couldn't ***** on. I still like the story for Halo on the video game but it could have been so much more. - HBNDonut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yes! Because Blu Ray is so much better! I can totally tell the difference! Id rather pay twice the HDDVD price for Blu Ray because it really is THAT much better than HD! /sarcasm
- OwdenBowden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Any Halo move should not reveal the Master Chiefs face what so ever! I would do a star wars Vader thing. Other than this there is no need for a Halo Movie.
- netplaya, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If Microsoft can't get enough interest for a theatre release movie, then maybe they could launch their own HD-DVD movie; or even an Xbox Live release.
- HanSolo69, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1to be as successful as the game franchise the movie will have to be simple enough to understand that a group of drunken frat boys could completely grasp it. so if they can do that, they will hit their target audience and it will be a huge success.
- acebrickman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Hmmmmmmm-
I'm sure I would have dugg this article had the author taken a BREATH before posting to his blog and subsequently here on digg.
However, this is not the case, and I actually selected this article first out of my feed just to see how many times OP had been blasted for his error.
Just because Word says it's [spelled] correctly doesn't always mean it's [used] correctly. - Krekko, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2If you read the books, you will find something there. I mean Someone above said it will be another Doom, but the thing is the Halo series has so much more behind it, has so much more substance then Doom, and by far would succeed what ever Doom could imagine.
Personally I would LOVE if Legendary Studios would pick it up like they are with the World of Warcraft movie - HBNDonut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You guys need to stop worrying about Neill. If you have seen any of his previous work then you will know he is going to give us the grimey dark side of Halo. Bungie wont allow anyone to mess up the Halo movie either. The movie will be awesome!
- MrFatalistic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2perhaps someone can enlighten me, with all the movies being made today from IP that is relatively unknown to the general public (Hellboy, Ant Man, and even to lesser extents, Speed Racer) how is it that they haven't figured out that a Halo movie is golden? Sure you need a very nice CG budget, and anything less than MC vs Covenant + Flood would be another FF:TSW but even every jock knows Halo by now.
This is just stupid. - ismokecake, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1sony should pick up the halo movie then release it on blue ray movie and have a game based on the movie exclusive for the ps3
- rheaume, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Love neil's work and to see hsi dream crushed like that was.. lame
But I guess in a world where 90% of movies SUCK it would make sense... - Ctrice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Seems that the Halo fanboys far outweigh the movie buffs here on digg. What a surprise.
- Ctrice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0$10 says you've never even seen a Blu-ray movie running on a decent set.
- SultanTravi, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4@chocobomog
The weakest books were the ones powered by Eric Nylund's ideas about how Spartans should act. Dietz wrote a better book because Master Chief was not some SWAT guy trying to be a ninja and avoid getting shot. The games are about doing and receiving lots of damage, and using your shields for protection. I feel that if they stick to that idea, it turns out better because this is not Splinter Cell. Plus, the storyline got destroyed by Nylund's books. There's a point where the books make it so that Spartan 117 is a useless character.
^ Geez that's a nerdy paragraph.
Also, realize that all directors start somewhere. The best directors started by directing small films. They want a director who they can see has potential and who is a fan of the Halo universe. I think Peter Jackson is a good person to judge who will be a good director when put on a big project. - Nati2atl06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0chocobomog
With that being said. I agree.
Now the whole "book being good" is a different argument. Compared to others, such as the ones you named, I agree but since we are talking about a book based off a game and not vice verse...Its a damn good book...well...except for "The Flood". It was the same as the game with lil insight added to it - Gegius, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Peter Jackson? Bah! Call Uwe Boll. He'll do it for cheap. =)
- thedarkrabbit, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Normally, I think: Halo movie? KICK ASS!
But then I think: They'll probably put The Rock or some other bad actor as the Chief... and that makes me sad.
Halo movie in CG: yes
Halo movie with bad actors: NO - CanIGetAWitness, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Well break out the paddles and start the CPR! I want the movie, I want it done well and I would like it to start when John (Master Chief) was just 6 years old.
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http://www.sohbetmerkezi.org - TheCash, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Just because the guy is great at special effects does translate into a guy being a good director. In order to turn the Halo universe into an entertaining movie for more then just the purist fanboy crowd, it is going to take someone of Jackson's skill and experience, not some almost fresh-off-the-boat noob. I watched his short film, and I'm sorry, it just looked like a poorly produced trailer for a film I might netflix or watch on cable at 2am and nothing else is on besides food dehydrator infomercials.
If they can't get someone who can do the franchise justice, I'd rather it not be made at all. I'm pretty sure the world could have gone along just fine without 'BloodRayne,' and 'House of the Dead,' in cinematic form. Some people waited how many years for LotR to be turned into a movie (ok, 3 movies) and I doubt any one of them would complain about the wait. That's how I feel about a Halo movie. Yeah I'd love to see it done too, but not if it's going to be 2009's 'Super Mario Brothers.' - Wraith99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I'd pay $10 to see a Halo movie!!
- labaha71, on 09/05/2009, -0/+0
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http://www.alnebras.com/topic/ - Topher06, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Come on, all video game movies suck, period. After King Kong, its dubious even Peter Jackson will break that trend. You can't make a movie on razor thin plots, which is all that video games have. Games have just enough plot to tie together hours of gameplay, the purpose of game is for interactivity, not to sit back and watch a good story.
To make a good video game movie Hollywood has to learn NOT to copy the typical game plot lines almost verbatim, but only use the game as inspiration for an actual original plot involving the same characters and context. However most Hollywood execs are too concerned about changing the movie to a point where the fans of the games won't like it. I would much rather see Hollywood appeal to the much larger non-gaming audience rather then the small niche market audience that has ADD and low standards. You see, Hollywood would prefer to make a movie knowing they have millions of automatic fans (those that have played the game), rather then release a movie on chance and hope they can gain a much larger fan base from those that never played or even heard of the game.
In any case, is Hollywood so hard up on original content they even have to make a Halo movie? Why not make a futuristic soldier movie that's not based on a video game, at least lend some credibility to the film making process. I think most people will say "A movie based on a video game, pass" whereas if it was a movie not based on a video game they might actually give it a chance. - razorsharp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0I think it's funny that people actually respect Peter Jackson. I don't think he was in any way responsible for the quality of the Lord of the Rings. He was piggybacking off of a giant budget, great actors, and a classic story. He repeated this formula with King Kong and ironically made the worst Kong movie to date. When Peter Jackson makes a quality film on a budget without actors so talented they barely need direction and an original script, then I'll have respect for him. Seeing as how he's too busy playing the Halo 3 beta, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
- readme, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Halo is never getting greenlit. Microsoft walked into Hollywood making crazy demands for cuts on the returns and guarantee of their investment and Hollywood showed them that game movies rarely make a dime and showed them the door.
- orangester, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Let's just hope it's not another "Doom."
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