Peter Jackson Gets His HALO On
Author: Stephen Gerding
October 5th, 2005
There’s still nobody set to direct or star in it, but the HALO movie now has a producer to go with it’s mid-2007 release date. Peter JAckson, along with his partner Fran Walsh, have agreed to helm the video game’s transition to the big screen. As far as I’m concerned, the game’ll always be a second-rate rehashing of Marathon, but I’m always interested in seeing aliens get blown to bits.
The film would be shot in Jackson’s production and post-production facilities in Wellington.
“I’m a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen,” Jackson said in a statement.
The executive producers would collaborate with Microsoft’s Bungie Studios, which created the game as the best-selling franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox game console.
The game follows the adventures of the futuristic super-soldier Master Chief as he battles an alien onslaught, and a similar line has been followed by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later) in a feature film adaptation.
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2 Responses to “Peter Jackson Gets His HALO On”
October 5th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
This video-game to movie thing keeps on going eh? I saw the trailer for “Doom” on the week-end and I thought it was the game - half the scenes looked like a first-person shooter view.
October 18th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
The Doom movie looks so dumb, so sophomoric…that I can’t wait to see it. Apparently the last 9 minutes of the film are all in 1st-person. That is so retarded that I know I’ll love every second.