Halo film postponed News
Xbox 360 Xbox News by Tom Bramwell
The Halo film has been postponed, Wingnut Films has admitted, following a number of setbacks including Universal and Fox's decision to ditch their interest in the adaptation over money issues.
"At this time Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their partner, Microsoft, have mutually agreed to postpone making a feature film based on the Halo video game universe until we can fulfil the promise we made to millions of Halo fans throughout the world that we would settle for no less than bringing a first class film to the big screen," Wingnut Films said in a statement released last night.
"We are fully supportive of Director Neill Blomkamp's vision of the film. Neill is a tremendously gifted filmmaker and his preliminary work on Halo is truly awe-inspiring. While it will undoubtedly take a little longer for Halo to reach the big screen, we are confident that the final feature film will be well worth the wait," it concluded.
Last week, Universal and Fox pulled out of a deal to fund and distribute the film, which had already been delayed several times, having seen their demands for an improved deal refused by the executive producers.
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S.J.Rogers
31/10/06 @ 11:29
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@ Talha: Agreed..!
Pixar would do a fantastic job as all there films have been first rate. (Apart from Cars... Err) Must not be a kids film though...
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ostrasized
31/10/06 @ 11:54
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Ooh, yeah - I can't wait for an hour and a half of a man in a crash helmet nodding as people talk at him.
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I wonder why Microsoft and Bungie can't simply finance this through Wingnut Films. I suppose there are all kinds of problems with the film guilds in Hollywood, but people have circumvented them before. Like Robert Rodriguez did with Sin City ... it cost him a few Oscar nominations and he was kicked out of the Director's Guild of America, but he was allowed to distribute the film even though he filmed, adapted, directed and edited the movie by himself.
I think there's something more sinister behind this. They could go into full production in New Zealand whenever the preliminary work is done and fight over distribution rights later. Why aren't they?
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"Why don't get Pixar to do an animated feature? That would be better fitting to a videogame than a live-action one."
Pixar is a Disney and Apple lovechild these days, I doubt Microsoft would be overly thrilled with the Halo film lining Steve Jobs' pockets. You're right though, Pixar is the best studio for the job. |
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"At this time Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their partner, Microsoft, have mutually agreed to postpone making a feature film based on the Halo video game universe until we can fulfil the promise we made to millions of Halo fans throughout the world that we would settle for no less than bringing a first class film to the big screen,"
Yay, it will never appear! Rejoice! \0/ |
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captainrentboy
31/10/06 @ 17:01
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Bar Halo fans and a few geeks out there who exactly would this film appeal to?Hasn't nearly every game-film adaptation ever made been a gigantic flop,critically mauled worldwide?It would have more than likely been the same for a Halo flick,like Silent Hill I'd imagine a lot of love and respect for the original source would've gone into it,but only the diehard fans would have an idea about what the fuck was going on.
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