Del Toro excited about Halo News
Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Mexican film director Guillermo Del Toro has been getting himself all worked up about a Halo film.
The mastermind behind Pan's Labyrinth was chatting to Aint It Cool News about various upcoming projects before declaring his fondness for the adventures of Master Chief.
"It would have been beautiful and I must tell that's a... of anything in my life that I look back and wish it could have happened is that project, because it is such a powerful experience," chirped Del Toro.
"People talk about it and say 'it's Aliens or it's a retread of this or that,' I don't think so. I think the angles to that game are far more epic and far more complex as a cosmology than that. It's not just about grunts in space. It's much more than that. It's a whole epic."
Unfortunately Del Toro has rather a lot on his plate at the moment with Hellboy 2 due sometime this year. But eventually the Mexican director believes Halo makes far too much money and is much too successful to be ignored, which makes him happy for the future.
"I love it so much that I would like to see it in any incarnation. If Neill [Blomkamp] and Peter [Jackson] get to do it, I'll be almost as happy as if I was doing it," he added.
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There's a substantial plot there, the games just don't tell it verry well. 1up did a feature about it last month that laid it all out.
A film would most likely do a better of telling it, not hindered by a need to rush through it to get to the next playable level.
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The Halo mythology is reasonably rich ('I love bees' and Iris were glimpses into the surprising depth of it) but, as Freek says, the storytelling in the game is a complete mess.
Plus, has anyone noticed that The Master Chief looks rubbish? Like a fat motorcycle courier who's read too many issues of Guns & Ammo. |
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Games like Silent Hill that actually had plot have crossed over and flopped. What about Halo makes people think it can break the trend? Sure it will have a decent budget and look pretty and probably make a good bit of money, but is it a good movie in the waiting... No.
I actually enjoy the Resident Evil movies as fun popcorn flicks but only the second one was even remotely faithful to the games. For Halo to be good, they'd probably have to change it to the point where only parts of it resemble the game. |
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A Halo film will flop like every other film based on a game. The popularity of games has not quite crossed over yet into mainstream, despite the games industry being bigger than the film industry for some time now.
Besides, games publishers could one day look at film making and say "Nah, not worth it, mate. They don't make money like games do!" And if Master Chef (or whatever his name is) is played by a known actor, he will want to take his helmet off after the first minute of celluloid, same as how they ruined Judge Dredd. |
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Glad to see we're all watching our zero punctuation. But yes, halo has so little plot that it's not funny, it would literally take 5 minutes to come up with a universe better suited to a generic sci-fi film, which is all a Halo film could ever hope to be.
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