Halo Movie Misfires
While a lot of video game to movie adaptions haven’t done so well (i.e. Doom or…*shudder* BloodRayne) Halo was looking to be slightly promising with Peter Jackson on board. Well according to a recent press release the deal is off! Sorta.
Universal and Fox withdrew their commitments to the highly anticipated adaptation at the end of protracted compensation talks with the producers.
The studios wanted to lower the amount of money received by the game’s originators and the producers, who include the Middle Earth maestro himself Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh.
But never fear.
All is not lost however. Microsoft is in talks with other studios and hopes to move ahead with the production in time for a 2007 shoot. New Line and DreamWorks initially passed on the project last year, citing concerns over the cost and the screenplay by Alex Garland, the acclaimed author of The Beach whose screenplays include 28 Days Later. Sony is not believed to be in the chase since its PlayStation console rivals Microsoft’s Xbox, the platform that launched Halo.
Now, I’m not terribly convinced I’ll be alive when the movie is made, I have no doubts that it will be and Fox and Universal will be kicking themselves for backing out when they did. But this is all a reminder that games on the big screen have almost never done well and I can’t blame Fox and Universal for being cautious. Time will only tell and as always we’ll tell ourselves that maybe this is the movie that breaks the mold and proves that movie adaptations of games aren’t always a suckfest.
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