Halo movie in DevelopmentHell

Wasn't Peter Jackson on this?

Pfft, Halo and Lovecraft... HURRY UP AND GET TO HELLBOY 3, GUILLERMO.

Guillermo Del Toro isn't working on it. He was in negotiations to direct it sometime in 2006, but he hasn't been involved with it for a long time.

He wasn't putting off At The Mountains of Madness to work on it, either.

I thought this got canceled? Supposedly, District 9 arose from this when Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkampf had the Halo movie fall through.

If they make a Halo movie, they should either do Fall of Reach or Halo: CE. However, they should not base the CE movie off of the novel, which was ridiculous (One troper compared it to playing the game through on Easy versus Legendary like the other authors)

If they do make a CE adaption, they should have a side-plot based on ''Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor" and Thel Vadam's logs from the updated "The Flood" novel; it would make a nice sequel-hook since it mentions sending Sesa Refumee (the future Heretic leader) to the gas mine on Threshold. Maybe a few scenes with Johnson escaping the Flood.

I do agree with the person who suggested Michael Bay do this. And I also support the person who said he'd be better suited to a Call Of Duty movie.

Because, let's face it, if there's two things you can count on in a Bay movie, they're war scenes and EXPLOSIONS.

Yeah, Bay's strengths have always lied in the action and pyrotechnics while his characters always seemed to suffer. Halo isn't exactly known for being a character-driven story, considering all the protagonists are Heroic Mimes. As for a Call Of Duty movie, what would be the point except for brand recognition? It's already fundamentally no different from any other military or political thriller movie.

I'm not sure about this...would it earn more than $ 200M because I think that would be the LEAST amount of money it would take to make it right.

RE: CoD—Exactly my point.

The advantage here is that most of Halo's aliens are humanoids so some rubber suits would go a long way but I really don't understand why people want to see a Halo movie.

I don't really see what it could bring that the five games and four novels haven't already covered, not to mention there already was an adaptation of Halo on the screen and it sucked. What, will making it live action magically make it better?

At best I'd say forget about everything in the novels, as well as the game's campaign. Keep the enemies sure but that's enough, the real meat was in multiplayer. The games with the best multiplayer were the first and Reach so base the movie off of those, throw in floods to fight, film the majority of it in first person, have some over the radio dialog and hopefully it translates into a decent action movie.

But this is Hollywood, they're going to want crying, twenty five minutes following stereotypical frat boys, minimal time given to explain anything plot relevant and a romantic subplot or some family related brooding. Exhibit A:Mortal Kombat, Charlies Angels, Resident Evil, Lord of The Rings, Star Trek. The latter two went through the ringer multiple times before a good film came out, do you really think they can make a good Halo movie?