Halo director says movie is dead
Category: Industry, Posted: 10/05/2007 at 01:48PM EDT by Billy Wang, Contributor
One of the movies I've been eyeballing is the seemingly dormant Halo movie. But with past rumors of the film being canned and then getting a possible green light, it appears now the film is truly dead. Creativity Online snagged an interview with the movie's director, Neill Blomkamp, and he laid it out crystal clear: the film is dead.
"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."
Regarding the live-action Halo shorts that have been appearing on TV, Blomkamp mentions that these shorts weren't connected to the Halo movie, in fact, he refers to them as, "less than zero" having to do with the movie.
"This is the first I've really spoken about those pieces. There's such a massive misconception about what those are. In essence, those pieces have zero to do with the film. Like less than zero. I worked on the film for a few months and we developed a lot of things during that time, and none of that has anything to do with the shorts."
What Blomkamp doesn't mention about all of this is the very serious reservations that the movie studios had with him being the director of such a high profile movie. He has no prior film making experience in any major films and in spite of Peter Jackson's high praise of him, the movie executives weren't biting.
In the meantime, the video below has all three currently released Halo live-action shorts in one clip. Enjoy!
[with additional reporting by Frank Ling]
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Well, I know Bloomkamp says that his film shorts had nothing to do with Halo, but after seeing these clips, I agree with the movie studios about not moving on with the Halo movie with Bloomkamp as the director. I didn't think they were all that great.
If they ever do make a Halo movie, for the love of God, please make it decent. I can't see how they could possibly screw it up.
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I bet they would have fuxxored the movies any way
"If they ever do make a Halo movie, for the love of God, please make it decent. I can't see how they could possibly screw it up."
Two words: Ewe Boll.
It would prob'ly get screwed up anyway. Those shorts were bad-asterisk. To the max.
I'm the one who merged all those clips together. Had no idea people actually watched it. Hope you enjoyed it.
It might not be that big of a loss that people are making it out to be. From a game standpoint, the whole Halo story is fabulous and one of the best i have ever witnessed in a game. But, for a movie, it might not translate well on the big screen, even though there might be not be exact correlation with the game story.
Maybe they can't come up with a good script. It will be made on day, but hopefully when they get the script right. It could of been worse, they could of rushed it out the door in along side Halo 3. We should really thank them for this decision.
I don't know what you guys are talking about? After I played the second game I couldn't wait tell a movie came out! Now is about to and you guys go and shoot it down):
I mean seriuosly people you don't think it look's good?
And how do you get a picture on the side of your comment??????????
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All right thats really dum y rnt they making the movie, Microsoft is always looking for a way to blow Sony away in marketing so y doesnt microsoft help back the funds... im pretty sure that they could get the money from random people that love the game halo if they just put something on xbox live like asking for donations for funds in making the movie lol cause when there are like hundreds of thousands of ppl playing on live that are addicted to halo 3 and 2 that they would send money to help fund the movie.
The Game was huge how could you not make a load of money from it it's so stupid their canceling it i am so disapointed !!! . .
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Stupid film makers i hate them
stupid microsoft i hate them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they should make halo1 the movie and then so on and so forth.u get me
Dude i could probably make a freaking hardcore movie(better that what they could have made), cause iv freaking read the books so much i know the story better than anyone.
i think this film looks pretty good i dont kno why u lot are giving it bad rep u lot are just dissapointed that it aint gonna be happening.. truthfully i think they should carry on beacuse they already got all the gamers hyped up for it... and it looks pretty good
adding on from my other comment.. but have you seen the amount of people who make fakes and adding the video (above) and how many people watch it... i have been reading many other reviews and stuff to see whether it is "dead" or not.. but they say the other reason is "buget" but they would make top sales with this film i would be in cinemas worldwide for quite a while and if it was in cinema let alone i would see it two times at minimum so they wud defiantly get there money back!
hopefully they find some hiding cash stored away and carry it on