'Halo' Movie Not Really a Priority for Microsoft

Earlier this week, I commented on how it was strange that when one video game movie adaptation made news, it seemed like a lot of them did. At that point it was Red Dead Redemption (not really even a movie idea...yet), then Half-Life, and then BioShock. Now it's time to get a Halo update. Microsoft owns it, of course, and I'm fairly confident they'll find a way to screw it up. I mean, they can't even keep their hands off Microsoft Word, so this might be a real burden for fans of the game. Variety talked to the company's Frank O'Connor, and the end result is it's a while off.

"We're still interested in making an excellent Halo movie. We've created an awful lot of documentation and materials to support a feature film. We have a good idea of what kind of story we want to tell, but won't move on it until there's a great reason to do it. We're in no particular hurry."

That story, incidentally, is a new one that uses the existing universe. That might be a good option, although if it blows, fans of the game will really have a hard time getting involved, I would imagine.

One bad sign, in my opinion, is that Halo has already employed at least four writers - Alex Garland, Stuart Beattie, D.B. Weiss, and Josh Olson - and I believe they've all had their own versions. Whether Microsoft throws them into a blender or discards all of them, it's never the best way to go, especially before you've even settled on the basic premise.

That having apparently been decided, I guess we'll see how much time and money Microsoft wants to spend building this. I still think they'd be better off outsourcing it - you know, like their customer service - instead of trying to figure out what movie the software company wants to make.

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