Halo

Why The ‘Halo’ Movie Never Happened…

The Halo movie could have been so good. And successful. But it never came to pass, with the project suffering from false starts and script rewrites before finally being canned altogether. But why? Money, mainly. Or so say some of the people involved. We know what their views are on the whole thing thanks to...
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Spielberg ‘Halo’ Movie In 2012?

Way back in 2007, when I was still a relatively young man, a Halo movie was happening. Definitely. And then it all went wrong, the project died, and Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson moved on to pastures new. There have been signs of life since, but nothing has come to fruition… This is a rumor,...
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Microsoft Still Wants ‘Halo’ Movie

Halo: Reach is almost upon us, with the fourth full installment of the insanely popular game series coming to Xbox 360 on September 14. And although there are no plans for any more games, Halo could live on thanks to merchandising and a possible movie spin-off. A movie based on Halo has been due for...
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‘Halo’ Movie Still Happening

The Halo movie, based on the best-selling Xbox game franchise, was so close to happening a few years ago. Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp were on board, but ended up walking away to make District 9 instead. And while I love District 9, I would have sincerely liked to have seen the Halo movie come...
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‘Halo’ Movie Back On The Agenda Thanks To Screenwriter

A film based on the hugely popular Halo game series seems like such a brilliant idea, yet it’s path to the big screen has been fraught with false dawns, rewrites and project cancellations. Alex Garland, the man behind 28 Days Later, original wrote a script back in 2005, and the project looked all set to...
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Peter Jackson & Neill Blomkamp Forget Halo – Team Up For ‘District 9′ Instead

Peter Jackson is set to produce a new live action sci-fi thriller titled District 9, with Neill Blomkamp directing. This will be Blomkamp’s feature directing début in light of the Halo film being put indefinitely on hold. No details of the plot have yet been revealed, although it is known that Blomkamp wrote the script...
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Halo Movie Is Dead According To Neill Blomkamp

The feature film adaptation of Microsoft’s Xbox juggernaut Halo appears to have come to a screaching halt with director Neill Blomkamp telling Creativity Online the film is ‘entirely dead’. Here’s what he to say about the current state of the project: The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with...
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Alex Garland’s Halo Movie Script Leaks To Bittorrent

Gaming site 1UP reports that a copy of Alex Garland’s aborted script for the Halo movie is floating about on bittorrent. One of their users came across a 128-page PDF which appears to be a legitimate copy of Garland’s script. Check out the excerpt below this post. Fans of the game may be interested in...
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