‘Halo’ Movie Resurrected By Steven Spielberg

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 8, 2009

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It seems the reports of Halo’s death are greatly exaggerated.

The Halo game franchise for the Microsoft XBox is an extremely popular one, and plans for a movie have been on and off for years. Most recently Peter Jackson was attached to produce and his protege Neil Blomkamp was set to make his directorial debut. Plans were scrapped for various reasons, most likely money related, and the duo moved on to District 9 instead.

And so the Halo film was pronounced dead.

Until today, when IESB reported a truly surprising exclusive about it’s possible resurrection.

According to the IESB post, Steven Spielberg is in active negotiations to acquire the Halo film for Dreamworks.  He’s apparently very impressed with the script by Stuart Beattie, and is on the hunt for a mega-franchise similar to Transformers (which he lost to Paramount in the studio divorce).  Head over to IESB for more on the possible deal.

With Spielberg producing, who do you think should direct the Halo movie?


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  • PHiL
    why does everything come back to transformers or star wars? make your own gdo-damn movie franchises & stop trying to make everything into a trilogy because star wars did it years back.

    "I want this to be the next stars wars, the next transformers, the next...etc,etc,etc. this is crazily retarded in the sense that they're thinking of numbers rather than quality, which is what's been going on so...I guess it doesn't matter. who cares then.

    PS: I think I had better thought when Jackson was involved, but now that's it's Spielbergo calling some shots i'm not too too sure.
  • siliconmaster482
    Is this a good time to point out that there are three Halo games? :P
  • Well, I think Spielberg should team up with Jackson and Blomkamp.
  • Cole_Abaius
    Totally agree.

    After seeing District 9, I'm struggling to figure out whether it's the best film I've seen all year (over The Hurt Locker) or if it's simply the second best movie I've seen all year.

    A first time feature director just did what most people struggle their entire careers and never do in Hollywood. Blomkamp is perfect for Halo. Anyone else, and we'd know we were getting an inferior movie to what could be.
  • BlackManJew
    Spielberg only means disaster now days. He will rape anything with aliens in it.
  • rpaine
    Spielberg can be great, look at the positives..he makes great alien movies (E.T., War of the Worlds, Close Encounters) and he makes great war movies (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and what is Halo?? An Alien war movie, this movie has potential to be amazing.
  • DrewCSchultz
    Does it seem at all coincidental as this is happening as District 9 is getting screened? I'm thinking Spielberg might just be throwing his weight behind this one to get Blomkamp on board.
  • hempknight757
    Peter Jackson your to good. stay away, far away. that would be the smart choice
  • nicky_cavella
    there are plenty of other games with better stories than this sorry ass game.
  • mack41
    So true. Yet none with such money making potential. Sad but also true
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