Presuming you’ve all heard the news, what can we do to make this happen!?
You are so so so so so many years late and it isn’t going to happen.
> You are so so so so so many years late and it isn’t going to happen.
I seems like you havn’t seen the new intervieuw with Neil Blomkamp .
Have you followed the entire thing from it’s inception? He has always been saying the exact same thing now as then and it won’t change.
Nobody is going to give him control of the first halo movie because somebody else wants to be the guy who got halo started movie wise.
Unless we all start raving for him to do it they won’t let him. He is going to have to become more established with his movies and make a large name for himself, which he very well can do.
If it ever does happen it isn’t going to be in this decade. which i don’t mind because as of now I think he,JJ Abrams and peter jackson are the only ones capable of doing a halo movie.
We all know that the guy can’t make the dissision to make the movie or not but Psycho Seal A89 was just asking our thoughts about how we would think if it would eventually be made . Which would indeed be doubtfull in this decade.
You know that movie District 9? Well apparently, the Halo movie was being made at that time but the budget was $6,000,000, 3 times the cost of James Cameron’s “Avatar”, so instead, they made District 9 because it cost so much.
> You know that movie District 9? Well apparently, the Halo movie was being made at that time but the budget was $6,000,000, 3 times the cost of James Cameron’s “Avatar”, so instead, they made District 9 because it cost so much.
Not exactly. Neill was chosen to direct the Halo movie sometime around 2006 or 2007 by producer Peter Jackson. At this time, however, Microsoft had already lost studio backing for the movie for a number of reasons (including they wanted to retain marketing rights and creative control). The live action Halo 3 commercials were an attempt to show that a Halo movie could be done. All the assets used had been made by WETA workshop for the movie before it was put on hold.
However, when no studio would touch the property, Jackson and Blomkamp moved on, and this is where District 9 came from.
> Unless we all start raving for him to do it they won’t let him. He is going to have to become more established with his movies and make a large name for himself, which he very well can do.
I don’t see why Microsoft wouldn’t give him the chance. He was the original choice by Microsoft and Peter Jackson to direct the Halo movie, and he did a great job with the Halo 3 “Landfall” shorts.
When I heard about Blomkamp’s interest in making a Halo movie, I was initially skeptical, since years before he had said he had no interest after the roller coaster he’d experienced with trying to make a Halo movie. Ultimately, I don’t think this will mean anything. Anyone else remember when Steve Spielberg was interested in a Halo Movie, and that never went anywhere?
From what I have followed over the years, it is vogue for Hollywood to bash MS for wanting merchandizing rights, creative control etc…
I trust MS more than I trust Hollywood.
It is all fun and games until Bob Hoskins is playing the world’s most famous plumber.
It is all nice and dandy until Fox is making that chap from Party of Five a hero in Double Dragon.
MS should pull a Lucas and bankroll this sucker AND somehow teaming up with a production company. Once the movie is done, then shop it around to the distributers…
I know, it all sounds easy… 
That’s awesome! I loved District 9 and I think Blomkamp has a lot of skill as a director. But I doubt this could happen, because he lost the creative control he wanted and I doubt Microsoft would give it to him now. We’re better off hoping someone else will pick up the project.
I suppose Forward Unto Dawn showed that interest is there for such a thing.
Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming “Elysium” looks -Yoinking!- amazing. If anyone’s going to make Halo a visually stunning, amazingly story oriented film, it’ll be him.