NZ Teletext says it has been announced that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, and their team, have been named as producers of an upcoming film version of the Microsoft Corp. game “Halo”
Universal will also be involved in production and domestic distribution (I assume in the USA although Universal isn’t American?) and Fox will handle international distribution. The film is scheduled for a mid-2007 release.
By: DazDaMan - 7th October 2005 at 08:30
I am. Both to the Doom and Halo movies. Doom just looks like a good time with a lot of explosions and death.
My kind of good time! 😀
Besides people, look on the bright side. There is no way that Paul W. S. Anderson will be allowed within five hundred miles of this project, and that alone means the movie has a lot going for it 😀
Amen!
By: SOC - 7th October 2005 at 00:58
Can’t say I’m looking forward to it.
I am. Both to the Doom and Halo movies. Doom just looks like a good time with a lot of explosions and death. Movies like that are great fun to watch 😀 As for the Halo movie, I’m starting to think that Bungie (the game’s developer), Microsoft, and Fox/Universal may just be on to something. I’m a huge fan of the game and realize that there is the potential, like so many game-to-film projects before it, for this to be done wrongly. In a big way. But, Bungie and Microsoft, from what I understand, have total creative control. They’re completely overseeing the project, which means it will stay as true to the game universe as possible, which should appeal to fans of the games. The games do have a great storyline to begin with, so making them into a movie (or movies?) is a great idea.
Besides people, look on the bright side. There is no way that Paul W. S. Anderson will be allowed within five hundred miles of this project, and that alone means the movie has a lot going for it 😀
By: SteveO - 6th October 2005 at 20:01
Doom has been made into a movie http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/doom/
By: Pilot Officer Prune - 5th October 2005 at 20:08
Peter Jackson would be my vote to make the ultimate WW2 war in the air movie.With his attention to detail it would be awesome.
By: pluto77189 - 5th October 2005 at 19:45
No, you misquote me. I never made mention of THAT movie,
only the original mortal kombat. I have yet to be able to sit
through the sequel.
The sequel is an example of when not to make a game to movie
transition.
And Arnold wouldn’t do a Duke ukem movie because he’d get
sued. Duke Nuke’em lines and personality are all lifted off of
other sci fi movies. Not influenced by, simply taken from. All
those cool, funny and mean lines he speaks are simply lines from
movies, ESPECIALLY the Evil dead movies – “Good,bad, I’m
the guy with the gun!” “Hail to the king baby”, “Groovy”
And a few from othe rmovies, like Roughdy Roddy Piper’s “They
Live” – “I’m here to kick a$$ and chew gum – and I’m all out of
gum.”
Cool game, but not original material.
Halo, while heavily influseced by sci fi movies (predator and alien
especially ) is very original in it’s storyline.
By: DazDaMan - 5th October 2005 at 14:46
Dazdaman – you didnt like Angelina Jolie in the Silver Jumpsuit – i know i did 😀 Why else buy a DVD player with freeze drame and the DVD 😀
I never said that! 😉
By: andrewm - 5th October 2005 at 13:58
Dazdaman – you didnt like Angelina Jolie in the Silver Jumpsuit – i know i did 😀 Why else buy a DVD player with freeze drame and the DVD 😀
By: Dave Homewood - 5th October 2005 at 13:56
I’ve always thought Syphon Filter would make a good movie. I hope there are more versions of that excellentgame coming…
I’m surprised Arnie Swartzanegger never capitalised on the Duke Nukem games too, that would have been right up his street – little acting, much blasting!
My favourite game series is Medal of Honor. Of course that featured scenes reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, and loads of other war films and real events. So as it took from so many films, I guess a film of the game is a bit too much to ask.
By: pluto77189 - 5th October 2005 at 13:22
Halo is actually a good choice for a game to movie adaptation.
The story is esentially an original idea, influenced by every single
sci-fi movie and book ever written. With all the influences, it still
has a good degree of originality.
Group of primitive acting, yet technologically equipped aliens
declare a jihad on humanity – pretty cool.
Very engrossing story, in fact.
And as for video game to movies. Mortal Kombat wasn’t bad,
and did very well. tomb raider did well enough to get sequel.
Final Fantasy didn’t do too bad.
the problem is when you take a wildly popular ganme and make a
movie out of it, without any real thought. Like super mario
brothers… would you make a movie about a plumber in the
mushroom kingdom? No. So you don’t make a movie about a
game about a plumber in the mushroom kingdom.
Same for Street fighter, no freakin plot, no freakin Box Office.
Make a movie about a hot, archaeologist/Indiana Jones with even
more scif-fi aspects, cool. So basing a movie on a game like that
isn’t too bad.
Mortal Kombat had the ability to stick a plot onto it, so it went
well.
Halo has a plot and story that would have made a good movie
without the game coming first. It should be great.
By: Dave Homewood - 5th October 2005 at 12:57
I’ve never played Halo, I had to ask my sister what it was actualy about this afternoon as she has played it hard out, and still don’t really understand it. I had orignially thought it was about parachutists which the name implies, but no…
The director has not yet been selected but the film will be made entirely in Wellington, NZ so at least it’ll be within some reach of Peter so he has good control over it. Weta workshops, who are now the best Special Effects proividers in the world, are doing all the effects.
I agree that game-to-movie films are usually pointless crap-trap. But who knows, this may be better than you think. You foreign chaps may not remember but I certainly do, when Peter Jackson first announced he was to film LOTR, most “experts” (i.e. nay-sayers) around the world outcried saying it simply couldn’t be done. That sort of negative nonsense, to Kiwis, is fuel to the fire. Peter proved them all wrong, even Tolkien’s family who initially wouldn’t watch it. Now some of them who have are overwhelmed by the result.
If anyone can do it, our Pete can. I just hope he appoints a decent director. I wonder if it will be a Kiwi too, we have so many good Kiwi directors doing so well arounf the world nowadays there are loads to choose from.
As for the Hobbit, I believe that rumour has been circulated by fans and media, not the actual makers of the LOTR films. As far as I have heard, there’s no way they can secure the rights to The Hobbit to make it into a decent version. Unless that situation has changed.
Peter is also amking The Lovely Bones after King Kong. So where hi hoped WWI film will fit in, who knows…
By: DazDaMan - 5th October 2005 at 12:30
No! No! No! No! No!
Make a game of a film by all means, but why make a film of a game???
I can’t see anyone other than nerds going to see it anyways
It’s been done before – and failed miserably.
Mortal Kombat
Streetfighter – with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kylie Minogue (I mean, for Christ’s sake!!). It was also sadly Raul Julia’s last movie, IIRC.
Super Mario Bros. – let’s not even go THERE!
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil
There’s probably more.
I think Tomb Raider was probably the better of them, since it really did stick to the ideas hinted at in the games, without going off the rails.
By: F-18 Hamburger - 5th October 2005 at 12:00
i don’t see what the big deal with Halo is.. I tried it a couple of times and found it to be a duller version of Counter Strike
By: Primate - 5th October 2005 at 10:12
Wasn’t there some talk going on about The Hobbit?
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