Halo Movie Moving Forward

5 Feb, 2005 at 1:58pm ET Article published in Tech

Variety reports that Microsoft has begun the process of bringing its best-selling game franchise to the big screen.

Given Halo and Halo 2’s runaway success, it wasn’t so much a question of if there would be a Halo movie, but when. Now, it seems “when” will be “soon.” According to today’s Variety, Microsoft “has quietly put the finishing touches on a million-dollar deal” with 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland to adapt Bungie’s multiplatinum game franchise for the big screen.

Once hired, Garland will be part of a “turnkey” script package that Microsoft will shop around to studios. According to Variety, the cash-flush software giant is taking an unorthodox approach to developing the Halo film project. The paper says ex-Columbia Pictures president Peter Schlessel is advising Microsoft to “develop its own script and shop it to studios once satisfied” in order to avoid the critical drubbing suffered by such game-based movies as Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Alone in the Dark.

Source: GameSpot

Comments

5 Feb 2005 ~ 4:31pm RWB Looks like Microshaft is willing to put in a butt load of cash into this movie. It could be pretty damned good.

Now if they could only do a BattleTech flick, I'd be a Microsoft LOVER for the rest of my life
5 Feb 2005 ~ 4:34pm primesuspect Here goes yet another ****ty movie based on a cool game
5 Feb 2005 ~ 8:41pm Sputnik ditto prime....

how many game based movies have there been ever? (far too many)
How many have been good? (NONE!)
5 Feb 2005 ~ 9:32pm Camman I thought the first Resident Evil was pretty good for your generic stupid gruesome horror/action flick. But, I never played the Resident Evil video game series so I had no expectations for plot, storyline, etc.
5 Feb 2005 ~ 11:25pm KingFish Exactly what I was about to say Camman. They should have left that sequel alone. I never played the game but I liked the first movie too.
5 Feb 2005 ~ 11:33pm RWB Haven't seen the secon Resident Evil, but I there have been some Game related movies I really enjoyed.... I just can't remember their names atm.

ALIEN vs. PREDATOR!

uhhh....

Wing Commander kinda sucked, but I still watch it if it's on....

Wasn't Last of the Star Fighters based on a game? That movie's a classic.
6 Feb 2005 ~ 12:20pm pseudonym Wing Commander was awful, I was so sad about it. My favoritist game ever....

Hmmmm, I wish they would remake that game in the prophecy engine....
8 Feb 2005 ~ 4:55pm drasnor

RWB wrote:

Wasn't Last of the Star Fighters based on a game? That movie's a classic.

That would be The Last Starfighter, and yes. It was good, but not nearly as good as TRON, which is totally awesome despite being based on a game (or games in general).

-drasnor
8 Feb 2005 ~ 4:59pm Camman yeah, Tron is awesome, but it's a little different cause it's not really based on any specific game, but I do want some Light cycles, I love tron
8 Feb 2005 ~ 5:24pm primesuspect Uh... tron was based directly on the video game, wasn't it?
8 Feb 2005 ~ 6:09pm Camman From what I understand it may have been based on a light-cycles type game, but, it's not like they tried to play off some story line like these movies from a game do nowadays. But I didn't think it was based on any actual game.

Correct me if I'm wrong, it's a little before my time (ie; tron was released several years before I was born), but that's all my point is, that it was like a movie about a game not a game with a storyline turned into a movie. Like I said, correct me if I'm wrong, but, I am in fact a big Tron fan, got the 20th anniversary collectors DVD, w00t.
11 Mar 2005 ~ 9:19am Randomdude I hope that if they do this movie it is based on the halo book: The Fall Of Reach for that book could make a great movie if done properly and could create more Halo fans.