Dear UNCS,
Should Halo become a movie series? There has been two movies like “Forward On To Dawn,” and “Nightfall,” which came out almost 9 out of 10 amazing. Another Movie called: Halo Legends; which show artifact about the making of Master Chief, and the making of Spartan-ll Armor. Also don’t forget that there are books made out there which have a storyline. Since book is the power source to how movies are made, then it must be a good movie; if there is a book! - Michael Jr
Sincerely,
WittedRookie
Given how vast the Halo Universe is and how rich in lore it is, I personally would prefer it, if there was to be another film, that it wasn’t based on a book. There are hundreds of different characters all leading different lives.
The Haloverse could easily support a movie franchise. The biggest problem is the CGI requirements.
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> The Haloverse could easily support a movie franchise. The biggest problem is the CGI requirements.
This is exactly why I think any potential Halo movie should go the animated route. The CGI requirements of this series are pretty significant, but an animated movie would be able to cope with that pretty easily.
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> Given how vast the Halo Universe is and how rich in lore it is, I personally would prefer it, if there was to be another film, that it wasn’t based on a book. There are hundreds of different characters all leading different lives.
I definitely agree with this from a lore perspective. But for a movie, it would be a hard sell to 343 and Microsoft to make a movie that wasn’t based on the Chief. He has mass market appeal, and that would be a big factor in deciding what story to tell in a movie.
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> > The Haloverse could easily support a movie franchise. The biggest problem is the CGI requirements.
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> This is exactly why I think any potential Halo movie should go the animated route. The CGI requirements of this series are pretty significant, but an animated movie would be able to cope with that pretty easily.
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> > Given how vast the Halo Universe is and how rich in lore it is, I personally would prefer it, if there was to be another film, that it wasn’t based on a book. There are hundreds of different characters all leading different lives.
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> I definitely agree with this from a lore perspective. But for a movie, it would be a hard sell to 343 and Microsoft to make a movie that wasn’t based on the Chief. He has mass market appeal, and that would be a big factor in deciding what story to tell in a movie.
Just get Blizzard to make an entire halo film XD, that would probably look jaw-dropping ngl. In my opinion, you could easily sell a tv show or movie to 343 by pointing out the success of the Mandalorian and the Starwars Clonewars (new season) that were wildly popular even though many disliked the new trilogy. weather it is a : “Halo Legends 2” talking about covenant ODST’s or a live-action Tv series following one of the still unknown of the five spartan II subjects who passed augmentation - to hell the kilo five books as movies or contact harvest I wouldn’t mind to see. The possibilities are endless, the only thing we need now is a good director who knows how to do his job, and is also very creative and knows the halo lore well, that’s a pretty hard find…
They can barely get a regular TV show off the ground (even that isn’t certain yet), you must be joking if you think they can suddenly go full Hollywood without self-imploding first.
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> > > The Haloverse could easily support a movie franchise. The biggest problem is the CGI requirements.
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> > I definitely agree with this from a lore perspective. But for a movie, it would be a hard sell to 343 and Microsoft to make a movie that wasn’t based on the Chief. He has mass market appeal, and that would be a big factor in deciding what story to tell in a movie.
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> Just get Blizzard to make an entire halo film XD, that would probably look jaw-dropping ngl. In my opinion, you could easily sell a tv show or movie to 343 by pointing out the success of the Mandalorian and the Starwars Clonewars (new season) that were wildly popular even though many disliked the new trilogy. weather it is a : “Halo Legends 2” talking about covenant ODST’s or a live-action Tv series following one of the still unknown of the five spartan II subjects who passed augmentation - to hell the kilo five books as movies or contact harvest I wouldn’t mind to see. The possibilities are endless, the only thing we need now is a good director who knows how to do his job, and is also very creative and knows the halo lore well, that’s a pretty hard find…
You make a fair point. But Star Wars isn’t the best comparison to Halo in this respect. It’s a longer-running series with nine mostly successful main movies (apart from a couple pretty bad standouts), one amazing spin-off, one mediocre spin-off, a couple TV shows, dozens of books and comics, and several games. It’s far and away much larger, more successful, and more culturally relevant than Halo in current year. Making a spin-off TV show about an obscure character is far easier in a more widely popular series like Star Wars than it would be for Halo.
Mandalorians are more broadly understood than even just plain old ODSTs, let alone the more obscure references like the Silent Shadow or the Human Insurrection. Ask the average person what they think a Mandalorian is, and they’ll actually know what the heck you’re talking about. Ask them what the acronym ODST even stands for, and they’ll have no idea.
I wish Halo was more relevant in popular culture in 2020, but it just isn’t. Maybe that will change over time, but for now, it’s gonna be a hard sell to Microsoft that Halo is worthy of a multi-million dollar blockbuster budget when they are already struggling at making a TV show amid a pandemic.
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> They can barely get a regular TV show off the ground (even that isn’t certain yet), you must be joking if you think they can suddenly go full Hollywood without self-imploding first.
This.
Because, really, the days when a Halo movie would be a no brainer are about 10+ years behind us. Back when Neil Blomkamp was still on board to do it but ended up making D9 and Elysium. Back when the live action commercials showed how a Halo movie could succeed…Back when Halo was still culturally relevant instead of a running joke in the game community.
The TV show looks like it won’t do anything for the fanbase as well. And if they would make a Halo movie I bet they’ll make the mistake of having it focus on Chief and stories we already know. Because that’s how movies adapting other works of art work these days. I’d rather have a side story following ODST’s with far more humanity than a Spartan. But let’s face it: we’ll never get that!
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> The TV show looks like it won’t do anything for the fanbase as well. And if they would make a Halo movie I bet they’ll make the mistake of having it focus on Chief and stories we already know. Because that’s how movies adapting other works of art work these days. I’d rather have a side story following ODST’s with far more humanity than a Spartan. But let’s face it: we’ll never get that!
I dont have a problem with it following another spartan. They are effectively the main ‘thing’ of halo.
That said, I do think focusing on existing stories and characters is a mistake. You’re inevitably going to get cannon issues, which will tick off the hardcore fans, while not necessariluy drawing in new ones.
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> > The TV show looks like it won’t do anything for the fanbase as well. And if they would make a Halo movie I bet they’ll make the mistake of having it focus on Chief and stories we already know. Because that’s how movies adapting other works of art work these days. I’d rather have a side story following ODST’s with far more humanity than a Spartan. But let’s face it: we’ll never get that!
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> That said, I do think focusing on existing stories and characters is a mistake. You’re inevitably going to get cannon issues, which will tick off the hardcore fans, while not necessariluy drawing in new ones.
Which is my I’d say no Spartans for a movie. At least, not as lead characters. Them showing up? Sure, no problem. But I think the Museum ads or the We are ODST ad show exactly how a Halo movie should be. Saving Private Ryan in space basically. You won’t get that with Spartans.
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> Which is my I’d say no Spartans for a movie. At least, not as lead characters. Them showing up? Sure, no problem. But I think the Museum ads or the We are ODST ad show exactly how a Halo movie should be. Saving Private Ryan in space basically. You won’t get that with Spartans.
I like that Idea of having no Spartans as a lead character for a Halo movie. Make it about the true horrors of being a marine in the Covenant war, or something like that, as we have never really seen the Human-Covenant war in the perspective of a marine.
Hey. I’d watch a Halo movie.
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> Hey. I’d watch a Halo movie.
That train left a decade ago mate.
I personally think that we’ve had enough movies.
Forward Unto Dawn was good but slow.
Halo: Legends was ok.
Halo: Nightfall was ok as well.
and Halo: The Fall of Reach was straight garbage.
im not ready for another halo movie.
I want a Halo movie but they have to make sure they get it right. Focus on making one, if its good turn it into a series. I also think this is the age of TV shows being the superior format although I have my cautious reservations against the upcoming Spielberg production.
There’s no point making a movie for the sake of making a movie. It has to satisfy 3 criteria to be worth it:
- Telling a story for which no other medium will work as well - Script needs to be worthy of it - Doing something to actually advance the franchise’s lore -
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> There’s no point making a movie for the sake of making a movie. It has to satisfy 3 criteria to be worth it:
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Yea we’ve seen a few movie series try to replicate the MCU by just rushing out weak scripts to retell stories popular on other media without actually establishing or advancing the lore that made the stories popular to begin with. I wont call out names, but there have been some pretty bad ones in the past 10 years and I don’t want Halo to become one of them.
Movies shouldn’t be a cash grab or a fan service, although a properly made movie will serve the fans who will likely turn it into a financial success. That being said there is room in the halo universe for a film to be made that fits the above criteria, it just needs to be made by the right team for the right reasons.
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> Yea we’ve seen a few movie series try to replicate the MCU by just rushing out weak scripts to retell stories popular on other media without actually establishing or advancing the lore that made the stories popular to begin with. I wont call out names, but there have been some pretty bad ones in the past 10 years and I don’t want Halo to become one of them.
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> Movies shouldn’t be a cash grab or a fan service, although a properly made movie will serve the fans who will likely turn it into a financial success. That being said there is room in the halo universe for a film to be made that fits the above criteria, it just needs to be made by the right team for the right reasons.
Precisely so.
Let’s see how the tv series pans out first
Make movies for each game minus Wars 1&2 and ODST, with one year breaks, apart from a four year break between 3 and 4
Everything else (Spartan Origins, ODST, Wars 1&2, Onyx, Spartan Ops, Contact Harvest, Etc.) should be in an anthology TV series in chronological order.