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 that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. 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.

He goes on to talk about how he was planning to shoot the film and I hate to tease but it sounds like he had an interesting vision.

I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you’ve seen in a while. And Universal was on board with that. I don’t really remember what Fox thought about it, but Universal seemed down with it. It would have been cool, it would have been a unique take on things, science fiction in a dirty, organic way.

With the $300 million or so Halo 3 made in its first week of release it’s almost guaranteed this movie will see the light of day eventually. There is far too much easy money to be had for this project to sit idle.