Microsoft Still Holds Out Hope for a 'Halo' Movie

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the video game Gears of War wouldn't be making it to the big screen anytime soon, due to budget concerns and the desire to make it a simpler story. In the process, director Len Wiseman is probably off the project, as well. Now there's an update from Microsoft about the Halo movie, and it's going the other direction. At first, it seemed like a great idea, with Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp crunching the screenplay, and if memory servers, Blomkamp was going to direct. It's an easier case to make now, thanks to District 9, However, that's not happening now. Jackson and Blomkamp are long off the project and have stated that they won't return. For a while, there was no movement on the movie at all, but now Halo's Frank O'Connor tells IGN that it will happen. Eventually. "We're going to make a movie when the time is right," he said. "We own the [intellectual property]. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. "We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing," O'Connor adds. "If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic." Yep, it's certainly a big deal, so you might as well get it right. Can they? Video games are tough to turn into movies (it's certainly easier the other way around), and this one could cause problems on the screenplay front, and that could be that include too much to assuage the purists or that they pare down the plot and piss off the core audience. Sounds like O'Connor is more concerned with a new audience, anyway. I have no doubt it will look incredible, but that's not everything, now is it?

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[Honz Brix]

I am a huge Halo fan and i say Piss on the core audience. Give us something new and fresh and put the time and money into it. Don't make it shitty like the Mortal Kombat movies. Do it right or don't do it at all