Peter Jackson to produce Halo—The Movie

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I didn't even know there were plans to make Halo into a film. Head over to IMDB, they have it noted already. Here's the link

Peter Jackson Overseeing Halo

King Kong, LOTR director exec. producing Bungie's sci-fi epic.

Who knew? The rumors are actually somewhat true. Acclaimed (and fanboy loved) director Peter Jackson and collaborator Fran Walsh are tapped to executive produce the upcoming Halo adaptation from Univeral Studios and 20th Century Fox. Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will act as producers alongside Peter Schlessel.

No, that doesn't mean Jackson will be directing, but with creative minds like this at the helm, you can be assured Uwe Boll and Paul W.S. Anderson are far, far away. Halo's been dealt the real deal with it comes to Hollywood filmmaking, and I don't think anyone will blame me when I respond to this news with a resounding: holy sh*t. Someone's finally taking videogame movies seriously.



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yeah well halo movie was being planned since quite some time now. Ridley scott was rumoured to direct the movie earlier. But this is indeed good new. Finally justice might be done to movies based on game franchises :P

Die uwe Boll Die :lol:
 
Blade_Runner said:
Finally justice might be done to movies based on game franchises :P

...i had the same thought the moment i read the thread title....heh...i doubt though he can *ever* upstage his LOTR effort...fantastic!
 
Video games movies can never make it big.

They don't have the storyline required in the first place.

All mk movies, all tombraider movies, all re movies and especially the mario movie comes to mind.

Even deuce bigolo and xXx look good compared to those pieces of crap.

Only avp was any good imo.

Don't think even deus ex or hl2 would be good as movies.

doom3 and farcry could decent popcorn movies though, they don't need to make enough sense for a movie to do much harm.

I am looking forward to Kiing Kong.
 
Splinter Cell, Warcrat 3 :P, HL2, Halo, and many more would make good movies.

Id personally love to see a movie made on Warcraft 3. That would be so Awesome!
 
You know which would make the best movie? And I'm sure you all would agree,

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

I would kill to watch that movie, if it were to be made. Heck to think of it, I want to Jedi Academy made too.
 
saumilsingh said:
Video games movies can never make it big.
They don't have the storyline required in the first place.

All mk movies, all tombraider movies, all re movies and especially the mario movie comes to mind.
Even deuce bigolo and xXx look good compared to those pieces of crap.

Only avp was any good imo.

Don't think even deus ex or hl2 would be good as movies.
doom3 and farcry could decent popcorn movies though, they don't need to make enough sense for a movie to do much harm.

I am looking forward to Kiing Kong.

Tomb Raider and Resident Evil have been a big success in Hollywood. RE just grossed in more than combined hit sales of TC like it or not.
While AvP flopped badly, and i hated it because it killed two great movies all in one go. If you've seen the original 5 alien movies, and both predator movies, AvP is crap compared with them! Predator teaming up with a human ? WTF!
Though, Halo's going to be good, it has a great storyline, and Jackson is the best person to bring out the its scene on the big screen.
 
eh TR and RE may be the most succesful movies based on games, they still did pretty poorly and were equally bad.
While the MK's and street fighter were downright sh1tty.

I know avp bombed, I still liked it.

The only game that has any potential to be a good movie is the warcraft saga.
 
There are too many movies already made similar to MAFIA.

|Do no why but i think halo is ideal game to be made movie on. It has great sci-fi touch and equally good story to go along with if direction is proper. I hope they stick to original game storyline and not do something like doom3 movie and change the base idea.
 
params7 said:
Tomb Raider and Resident Evil have been a big success in Hollywood. RE just grossed in more than combined hit sales of TC like it or not.
And that is why sales mean nothing...
HBO makes me watch crap like 'the school of rock' and 'van helsing' on a daily basis, advertising them to be $150 million movies.

Although RE1 wasn't too bad, watchable on dvd.

funkymonkey said:
Do no why but i think halo is ideal game to be made movie on. It has great sci-fi touch and equally good story to go along with if direction is proper. I hope they stick to original game storyline and not do something like doom3 movie and change the base idea.
Doom and Halo could be good starship troopers style movies if done right.

The best doom movie that ever will be is just not called doom, it's Event Horizon.
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
...i had the same thought the moment i read the thread title....heh...i doubt though he can *ever* upstage his LOTR effort...fantastic!
hehe right ! But then again the difference between game based movies that we have and LOTR is like a huge abyss ! Even if peter jackson puts in half and effort or lends atleast some of his ideas and skills we might have a decent game based on hand.

The best doom movie that ever will be is just not called doom, it's Event Horizon.
Oh yeah i agree ! I just loved that movie !
 
I havent even watched Event horizon. Maybe i need to.
By the way i liked School of Rock. I time watch fun movie.

EDIT: err just searched the google for event horizon. Saw the posters and then realised i have watched it. The ghost space ship movie.
I thought it was good, nothing exceptional though. I mean didnt made me go WOW or DAMN.
 
saumilsingh said:
And that is why sales mean nothing...
HBO makes me watch crap like 'the school of rock' and 'van helsing' on a daily basis, advertising them to be $150 million movies.

Although RE1 wasn't too bad, watchable on dvd.

The RE movies HAD no stroy connection with the games. NO character from Re1 was even from the games! There's no hive in the game, no red queen, Anderson just ****ed the whole storyline, but still managed to run it in the box office.
While Re2 did have 4 characters from the game - Nemesis was seriously toned down. No helicopter falling on him can take him down and they made Jill into a ****ing slut, and Carlos, he's in my sig from the game in Re3 and Oded Fehr the guy who played Carlos - Not even close to looking like him. Alice was never seen in the videogames. RE movies are a realm(stroy) of their own, and should not be connected with the games
And for a real Alien and Predator movies fan like me, AvP blowed. It turned crap for me when the girl allied herself with the predator, while some of Alien vs Predator scenes in the middle were nicely done.
 
saumilsingh said:
The best doom movie that ever will be is just not called doom, it's Event Horizon.

Yeah Event Horizon had an almost oddly similar storyline. But you can't really say it was a 'Doom movie' because it wasn't made with that intention.
 
...event horizon wasnt that good imo...also im tired of star showing it all the time...lol

C&C...especially the tiberian series....thats going to be an awesome movie ...if they set it right ^_^
 
I watched Resident Evil movie, and what a piece of crap that was. C grade movie with A grade budget phew.. Somehow the RE concept look very sad to me, zombies et all....

Deus Ex would make an awesome movie, so would a movie based on the Myst and Morrowind series.
 
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