HALO movie

From IGN a couple of days ago: http://movies.ign.com/articles/101/1012622p1.html

Rather than post quotes from it, I will summarize that Steven Spielberg is now attached to the infamous project, that most people have excepted will never happen, as producer. There is a script that Spielberg really likes which adapts the novel "HALO: The Fall of Reach". Which IMHO bodes well for this getting made, whether that is a good thing or not is yet to be seen.

I like HALO. I am not a super fan. In fact, I just beat the first game for the first time last year. It is a good shooter, but the story line, which is often taken by people as being pretty lame and generic, is actually kind of cool and refreshing to me. It really reminds me a lot of old science fiction stories I'd read as a kid. It is the future, an Empire of aliens resembling very much the Persians threaten man kind, etc. It is simple, any fifth grader could have thought it up with just as much depth. But for some reason it just takes me back to the days of reading comic books past bed time with a flash light.

That said, I have very little faith in Hollywood to do anything but hurt the franchise. Though if done right, the story from the novel "The Fall of Reach" could make a pretty cool sci-fi flick.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

If Peter Jackson directed it and Weta did the effects i would be interested, but Steven Spielberg being involved makes me very nervous. Anbody that had anything to do with those attrocious transformers films or Indiana Jones IV will clearly ruin HALO.

What can't hollywood ruin?

Spielberg is also attached as producer to a live action americanization/bastardization of a favorite animated film called Ghost in The Shell.  Which no doubt will be an abomination just like the live action Akira they are preparing, anyone ever see such great films such as Dragonball or Speed Racer?, lol.

I thought a Halo movie had as much chance of being made as the Live action Neon Genesis Evangelion film that Peter Jackson's studio was attached to, but i would like to be proven wrong.

I would just as soon have Microsoft and Bungie make a 4th Halo game to show what happened to Master chief.

These non Bungie games being made are an absolute joke even if their cut scenes look better due to the benefit of time.

Speaking of Halo Karen Traviss left writing star wars books to write halo books,lol.

Supposedly it had something to do with the new animated show throwing a wrench into continuity, way to go lucash.

I just read that link Steven Spielberg and the words halo prequel don't sit very well with me.

Especially since the canon prequel has already been made and it is an rts game called halo wars.

I would hope the fans would say

"Adapt the fucking game trilogy or i won't pay to see this in theaters."

A movie that has Master Chief before he was the character he was in the Games.  Thats like saying lets make a movie of bond before he was the bond we know, or lets do a movie where captain kirk is a punk teenager.

Good god hollywood, no more prequels is not it enough that prequels ruined star wars, sullied Roddenberry's star trek and destroyed the fun that was Bond James Bond.

Sadly i think there are enough HALO fanatics that will buy anything with the halo name slapped on it, kind of like these modern day star wars fans interesting.  Quality is meaningless right?

We already got a bad cheesy Marines in outer space movie called Starship Troopers which almost had nothing to do with the Heinlein novel but the name.  They turned the main character into a white dude when he was not in the novel.  

Despite the fact that videogames make really poor movies. Was not that the reason why bill gates originally pulled the plug on the halo movie as well as the budget?

Reminds me of the fact that they are making world of warcraft into a movie series another horrible idea, as much as the idea that some studios might make mass effect into films and completely ruin it.

I saw the Super Mario bros movie, possibly the worst film i have ever seen and worst film ever made.

DO we really need another 90% cgi and 10% real crappy cgi action fest?   Did'nt people already have their fill from this summers offering of awful films?

I had never seen that Neil Blomkamp demo before. Interesting. I like how he tried to make it a war movie with a sci-fi background, rather than a sci-fi movie with war as part of the plot. Something to make it a little unique. I think a Halo film would definitely benefit from that kind of grittiness. Spielberg has done some good work on war films in the past, if he pushes it along those lines, it might come out alright.

There is a Halo animated series coming out next year (I think), perhaps that will generate more interest in the franchise beyond gamers and show how viable it is, or alternatively, prove a film version is a bad idea. 

It feels like too many of these kinds of films are merely quick sort lived cash-ins. Such as Speed Racer or Dangonball's recent adaptions. These franchise have huge built in audiences who will run to see it in the cinema, and likely go home feeling disappointed, but their money is already spent, and the film has already turned a profit.

Presently, games have become very cinematic, but their stories only reach a relatively small audience. It wouldn't be hard to translate some of these stories nearly verbatim to the big screen, but for some reason no one ever feels like doing so, and instead feel the need to make major changes. I'd actually rather these video games stay confined to their own little worlds for gamers to enjoy. Seems like everytime something like that break out into a wider audience, a lot of what made it special is lost. At the same time, I am so fond of the stories found in games like Bioshock and Half-Life 1 and 2 that I wish I could recommend them to friends and family like a book or a movie.

A bioshock movie would be really great. Except that they might screw it up.

It might get a R rating, and the killing of children might get it banned.  You know when people harvest the little girls in the game from those robot bigdaddy things.

You know like Jake Gyllenhal playing a persian character kind of awful.

God of war and Prince of persia will probably suck as movies.

Not to mention they will probably ruin Metal Gear.

God of War really shouldn't be a movie. It is a button masher of a game, littered with some fun little puzzles and great visuals, but the story is nothing new. All it does is take Greek mythology out of its original context and rearrange it and make as much of it as possible fit into their story, which is cool for a game, but I just don't see it as a movie.

As for a Bioshock movie and the killing of children, you are given that option in the game, to save or harvest the little sisters. But the game awards you very heavily for saving them rather than harvesting (bonus tonics and plasmids), so clearly they want to encourage you to save instead of harvest. I am pretty sure if they did made it into a movie (which I think would most certainly end in disaster) they wouldn't have their hero doing any harvesting. But George Lucas showed the world that the mass murdering of children, even by the films main protagonist, is perfectly acceptable, even for a children's movie.  

I would really like to be proven wrong that a good movie can be based on a video game.

I remember a very long time ago the talking of a possibilty of a live action Zelda movie.  But the failure of super mario ended that real quick.

Only to Fans years later clamoring for such a movie, because of the lord of the rings films were sucessful.

But to me Zelda would like te Eragon movie probalbly be a bad remake of star wars 77's plot.

If you compare the harry potter films that were sucessful, the first narnia movie, or lord of the rings to every other dime a dozen bad fantasy movie made since the 70's and 80's it gets obvious real quick only a few were good films.  A scarce handful of them.

Though is possible for a movie to have a well written script, good direction and still be a financial failure but a good film all the same in theory.

The Good Sci Fi and fantasy films are followed by imitations or cash ins.  The Indiana Jones and Star Wars films have been remade rather poorly under different names by different directors who never gave Lucas a dime for their outright theft. Lucas somehow got his revenge at least for indiana jones to the detriment of the character by copying the copies with the 4th film.  Even if entire effects sequences were lifted from the work ilm did for said rip offs like the mummy 2.

To be sure people know what i am talking about i mean the original star wars and indiana jones trilogies.  Not the later stuff.  It is even worse when someone makes a pastiche work of their early work without the same soul or caring put in for the characters.

I would be Like Robert Z. doing a prequel back to the future trilogy all in cgi, poorly written and destroys the characters from the other films.  Or Steven Spielberg doing a prequel trilogy of indiana jones, wait Lucas already did that prequel without Spielbergs involvement, as a tv series set up as a history class for kids.  Without the action and adventure of the films or John Williams,lol.

I like when Guillermo del Toro calls it "Hal-o" as if he's answering the phone.  He worked on the movie somewhat.  On the Hellboy 2 commentary he talks about designing the Spartan helmet so that it would have some kind of movement when a Spartan spoke.  Not sure if it was a series of head nods like it is in Red vs Blue or something more elaborate.

Are you two timing me?