Halo movie 'entirely dead'

PALGN News | Master Chief misses out on big-screen adaptation.

Plans to adapt the bestselling Halo franchise to the silver screen have been permanently shelved, reports IGN. Neill Blomkamp, the director appointed to convert the game into a film, gave a status report on the project:

'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,' Blomkamp informed Creativity-Online.com. '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.'

Blomkamp added that he wasn’t completely cutting himself off from the venture. 'As I'm getting older one of the things I've realized most about this industry is never say never,' he said.

The Halo movie originally collapsed back in 2005 when 20th Century Fox and Universal withdraw from the project citing financing issues.

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5 Comments

rodvcpetrie

4 years ago

Well it's nothing new in the world of the film industry. It's just going to be staying in Development Hell for a while. It will eventually get made.

Peter Jackson has been involved in many projects that didn't go ahead when planned. Braindead was going to be his second feature after Bad Taste but it fell through and he did Meet the Feebles instead, and Braindead came back around as his third feature.

He tried to get a Planet of the Apes film up and running three times over a period of a few years before Fox decided to go the remake route with Tim Burton.

King Kong was going to go into production in 1996 but was put on hold and Lord of the Rings came into the game. It looked like it wasn't going to be made in three films while at Miramax but it eventually came around with New Line.

So this isn't really dire news. It's a shame because the script review I read was excellent. I'm not sure if more drafts were done afterwards but the way it read on paper sounded great.

It will be made eventually. Mark my words.

ittekimasu

4 years ago

bet Fox wanted to try and make it a series.

I can't imagine this as a movie yet, maybe if the movie focused on a person who is in the middle of this, and have the master chief as an appearing character would be pretty awesome.

ugh the boot

4 years ago

It better be made by Peter Jackson because imo he is the only person that can do justice to these epic storylines/settings.

Epic = Peter Jackson.

Karai Pantsu

4 years ago

Oh, totally! Did you ever see Bad Taste? EPIC!

"Christ, you'll never believe what l just had to do!"

"Did you have to drink some chuck?"

"Blerrgh"

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

^
"The old magic is still there"

"yeah, and the moon"

"Christ, Dirik's gone apeshet'

Wow, hollywood not trying to wring every last cent from something like this, the world has gone topsy turvy. I was hoping they'd get Uwe Boll to direct it.

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