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> Halo would have made a great movie but MS messed that one up and the guy they hired went on to make District 9. Indeed. Ten years ago, Microsoft could have
by ansible 9y ago
> Halo would have made a great movie but MS messed that one up and the guy they hired went on to make District 9.
Indeed. Ten years ago, Microsoft could have just taking the existing plot of Halo-1 (Combat Evolved) and turned it into a movie. They could have just cast Steve Downes, Jen Taylor and the other voice actors to play their own roles. And just use the original musical score too. They would have had audiences jumping to their feet and cheering.
I'm not saying it would have been easy, making a truly great movie (or at least a truly great action movie) is never easy, but it would have been straightforward and easily successful.
- evo_9 9y agoI remember seeing some of the art work they'd developed and it looked fantastic. It would seem like one of the easier game-to-movie adaptation out there. For anyone interested, the script was leaked at some point. You can read it here (I have not yet): http://www.spumonte.com/files/pdfs/Halo%20Movie%20Script%20-%20Garland%20Alex%20(2-6-2005).pdf http://www.spumonte.com/files/pdfs/Halo%20Movie%20Script%20-...
- ansible 9y agoI haven't read all of it yet. It's not bad, but I think elements like the conflict with Major Silva takes away the focus from the main storyline. A lot of that is: What is Halo? What do the Covenant want (other than killing humans)? And what is the Flood and how do we stop it? That's plenty of story for a 2-hour movie, I wouldn't spend a lot of screen time on much else.