In related news, "Halo 3" made over 300 *million* dollars worlwide in two weeks, "Transformers" has netted over 300 million domestically. Just about everyone I know who plays the Halo games actually likes the Halo books.--Does anyone really believe no one will exploit this franchise's success by making a movie out of it??
-------------- Original message -------------- From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://movies.ign.com/articles/825/825257p1.html > > Halo Declared Dead > Director says movie is not happening. > by Stax > Click here to find out more! > > October 5, 2007 - Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp had been slated to direct > Fox-Universal's feature film version of the videogame sensation Halo, > but the project infamously fell apart last year. Still, there had been > rumblings that Halo could still fight its way onto the big screen. It > seems, however, that even Blomkamp has given up hope for the Halo movie. > > "The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever > happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a > totally different configuration," Blomkamp informed > Creativity-Online.com. "It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank. > Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that > weren't getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. > That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry. So the film > collapsed at the end of last year, and it's been dead, ever since then. > I'll be curious to see what happens." > > Blomkamp made a trilogy of live-action Halo short films to help promote > the release of the Halo 3 game, but they were not -- contrary to fans' > hopes -- meant to rekindle interest in the movie. "There was not even > one percent of my mind in doing those short pieces to try and resurrect > the film. And I think maybe that's because I'm closer to the film, I > know how hard it fell, and I know that doing things like that was not > how you're going to get it back on its feet," Blomkamp explained. > > But Blomkamp didn't shut the door on Halo entirely, saying, "As I'm > getting older one of the things I've realized most about this industry > is never say never. That's the first thing. Right now, I can't see > myself doing that film. But I'm not going to say that I'm not going to > do it. So in the present moment, right now, I could take it or leave it. > It doesn't matter to me anymore. There's too much interesting shit out > there. The film has the capacity, if things line up correctly, to be, I > think, really cool. But it ended up collapsing, and things happen for a > reason." > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
