HALO movie

[iliveforthis99]

Some of you all might know this already but there's a HALO movie coming out. Here's a link w/ more info.

www.pbreview.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=316008

[Cy Skywalker]

Oh...must check this out...I have actually never played Halo, but like the concept and have skimmed the books. What's the scoop on the movie?

[SilverSergyon13]

Personally, I don't think it'll be good. Video game movies rarely are. Especially after watching that Resident Evil movie. It was horrible.

Though I may be wrong. I think the game will always be better though.

[iliveforthis99]

All i really know is that it's mostly if not all going to be CGI. And that it's coming out some time in 2007. And i can almost promise that it will be rated R.

silversergyon13 said:

Though I may be wrong. I think the game will always be better though.

LOL! They usually are. But we'll see in 2007.

[Cy Skywalker]

Hm, those aren't good things going for it. I suppose the fanboys'll flock, lol, and I will laugh.

[MFB]

MFB has found this thread. Everyone flee from the ranting fanboy.

M$ gone and done it this time. They think their small success story can become a movie? Puth. Not only are they overly confident in their stance as game "creators," but this is just wrong.

Video Games are very RARELY meant to be movies. And if they are, then the GAME will be cinematic enough to rival a full-length feature film. Games like TWW, Tales of Symphonia, and the every-popular Final Fantasy series arew games that give you that cinema feel. And I'll bet that Twilight will best all in this category.

And this is a SHOOTER! Not some epic RPG/Adventure game with a truckload of plot and story!

Two successful games doesn't make a series great. Good games in a long-running series does. Only Halo, to my knowledge, fufilled this criteria.

[iliveforthis99]

It would be a better movie if they did from the books and not the game. Then it would have a great story line.

[Dûncariel]

Heh. As long as they don't bomb it like they did with Resident Evil. The games weren't even half bad.. then they went and made the movies. Bummer, that. Otherwise, I don't know that I'll really care. I haven't picked up a controler for nearly a month, anyhow.

[Cy Skywalker]

mfbaggins said:

MFB has found this thread. Everyone flee from the ranting fanboy. Video Games are very RARELY meant to be movies.

Or the other way around...

[Jedi Master Sar Sha]

The first game was cool. The second one was okay. The books were good. If they mess up the movie I will rebel!

[iliveforthis99]

The movie's going to take place at the time of the second book. Which kinda stinks b/c i was hoping to see the planetary MAC guns take out some covie ships.

[Jedi Master Sar Sha]

Is there a web site that tells you all this stuff? If there is I must find it. Halo is really fun.

[iliveforthis99]

Here's a website where you can get info on any movie. www.imdb.com/. And i occasionally see stuff about the HALO movie on the paintball forum that i go to. I can try to every body up to date here.

[iliveforthis99]

Here's some more info: Taken from www.gamespot.com

Today's Variety (subscription required) is reporting that Universal has partnered with 20th Century Fox to cofinance the film version of the biggest Xbox franchise of all time, Halo. Sources told the Hollywood trade that the two companies are in final negotiations to buy the Halo movie rights from Microsoft, which had couriers--dressed as the Master Chief--make the rounds at all the major studios earlier this week. They carried a Bungie Studios-approved script from 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland.

While Halo's huge fan base--the series has sold nearly 13 million copies--would normally be catnip to Hollywood executives, Microsoft reportedly put forth conditions that put off many studios. According to reports in several media outlets, including a detailed account in today's New York Times (registration required), Microsoft demanded $10 million against 15 percent of the box-office gross. This in addition to a minimum $75 million "below the line" budget, meaning the studio would have to invest that much money before hiring any actors or a director, usually a film's biggest expenses. Also, all studios shown the script had just 24 hours to respond "yes" or "no," since Microsoft wanted the movie fast-tracked into production.

According to Variety, Microsoft's tall order caused almost all major studios to pass on the project. By Tuesday, DreamWorks, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Buena Vista Entertainment, Disney's parent company, had dropped out faster than an ODST. With virtually all of the competition gone, the two remaining heavy hitters--Fox and Universal--decided to use their leverage for more favorable terms.

According to the Times, Microsoft's representatives at Creative Artists Agency--current employer of former Xbox cocreator and game-industry enfant terrible Seamus Blackley--hammered out a deal on Wednesday afternoon that had Fox and Universal offer Microsoft $5 million against 10 percent of the gross. The agreement would see Universal distribute the Halo movie domestically, while Fox would handle foreign distribution.

But while Universal and Fox's offer is now the only game in town, Microsoft is still unsure if it wants to play ball. Variety and the Times say the agreement is held up on two fronts. First, the two studios requested that Microsoft relinquish its demands and that the Halo movie strictly follow a Bungie-penned "bible," which would ensure that it would not deviate from the Halo mythos or conflict with "sequels" to the game (i.e. Halo 3). The second reported sticking point was Microsoft's insistence that principal shooting begin as soon as possible, possibly as early as this fall. According to Variety, Universal and Fox will only "promise simply to get the pic into theaters by 2007 at the latest."

There's also a HALO 3 coming out in 2006 for the XBOX 360.

[Jedi Master Sar Sha]

If Bungie make the movie it should be good. I like how they made the first Halo. If Microsoft makes it, well . . . I'm not sure what the outcome would be. I didn't enjoy Halo two as much as the first Halo. Hopefully Halo 3 and this movie will be goood.

[iliveforthis99]

More info again from game spot.

If all goes according to plan, Master Chief may be accepting an Academy Award in January 2008. Variety (subscription required) is reporting that Fox and Universal have targeted the summer of 2007 for one of the small screen's biggest heroes to make his anticipated debut on the big screen.


The Bungie-developed Halo franchise, which has seen more than $600 million in sales since 2001's Halo: Combat Evolved, owns claim to the top two best-selling Xbox games of all time. Halo 2, released in November 2004, eclipsed $125 million in sales on its first day of release. With such impressive numbers, the property caught Hollywood's eye, leaving many to speculate that a movie deal would be imminent.

However, negotiating a movie deal proved as challenging as taking down a Covenant dropship, as several studios surprisingly passed on producing a Halo movie. The reason: Film studios may be used to kowtowing to A-list actors' demands, but they don't typically cave in to requests from non-Hollywood players. Initial reports saw the software giant asking for $10 million against 15 percent of the gross (whichever is higher), a below-the-line budget of $75 million (budget before hiring actors and crew), near-immediate production of the movie, and a large say in the creative development of the movie.

Fox and Universal eventually bent and accepted the project, paying Microsoft $5 million against 10 percent of the gross. Universal will oversee production and domestic distribution, and Fox will handle all overseas operations.

Peter Schlessel (American Gun) will produce the flick, which was scribed by author Alex Garland. Garland, whose previous credits include the novel and film adaptation of The Beach and zombie-horror film 28 Days Later, was reportedly paid $1 million for the Bungie-approved script.

The deal gives several Bungie employees "extensive consultation" on the project, but it doesn't give them final word.

"Our conversations in the last few weeks focused on the level of collaboration needed to bring this complex property to life," Peter Moore, marketing and publishing VP for Microsoft's Xbox, told Variety. "Ultimately, Universal is the expert responsible for making a powerfully commercial movie palatable to our demographic."

[iliveforthis99]

Ok here it is a review of act 1 from the movie script:

Halo script leaked and reviewed
And it rocks!
The site LatinoReview somehow got their hands on the Halo script and wrote a lengthy review on it.
"The question: Is the script any good? My answer?
Hell yeah, baby! This script rocks man. The script is so d**n good and entertaining that I read it more than once. A tour de force. The clowns at the other studios who passed on this are gonna lose their jobs when this movie comes out and opens huge. Whoever at the other studios thought that this script wasn’t up to snuff can kiss my a**. Idiots. You think Peter Jackson is going to get involved with a property if the script royally sucked?! I think not.
Halo is a balls to the wall unapologetic, ruthlessly ultra-violent war movie – and it’s cool as hell, man. How violent is it? It’s the Saving Private Ryan of video game movies. We got headshots, bodies being cut in half by the swords of the Stealth Elite. We see what kind of damage plasma grenades can do and yes we get to see the horror of flood infection vessels – heads snapping back and torsos exploding."
Check the full story for the full review.


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If you don't want spoilers or you haven't played the game, don't read on. You've been warned. The author does make a good effort to minimize spoilers though and he doesn't tell anything from the second half of the script.
Yes folks, we at Latinoreview got ourselves the multimillion-dollar script of Halo by Alex Garland! I had to pull some Sam Fisher Splinter Cell moves to get it – but we got it. Let’s see, they paid Alex Garland $1 million bucks to write it, they sold it to Universal and Fox for $5 million bucks plus 10 percent of the gross. And they gave a seven-figure deal to both Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh to exec produce the movie. A $10 million dollar script – at least. Wow. The question: Is the script any good? My answer?
Hell yeah, baby! This script rocks man. The script is so dang good and entertaining that I read it more than once. A tour de force. The clowns at the other studios who passed on this are gonna lose their jobs when this movie comes out and opens huge. Whoever at the other studios thought that this script wasn’t up to snuff can kiss my a**. Idiots. You think Peter Jackson is going to get involved with a property if the script royally sucked?! I think not.
Halo is a balls to the wall unapologetic, ruthlessly ultra-violent war movie – and it’s cool as hell, man. How violent is it? It’s the Saving Private Ryan of video game movies. We got headshots, bodies being cut in half by the swords of the Stealth Elite. We see what kind of damage plasma grenades can do and yes we get to see the horror of flood infection vessels – heads snapping back and torsos exploding.
The fact that Bungie and Microsoft, developed the idea for the movie in-house and paid their own writer to come up with the draft is reason alone why Halo will stand out among all the other video game movies. This is the sci-fi movie that has James Cameron directing written all over it. That is my pick on who should direct this. Talk all you want about Silent Hill, Hitman, Postal, BloodRayne and all those other lame Uwe Boll adaptations - those other video game movies were licensed to the studios where lame development and creative execs developed them with writers without the game creators having any creative input or say. No way, not with Halo. Halo will be the mother of all video game movies and a kick a** science fiction picture to boost. The people behind Halo who live this game and breathe it were in the development process all the way and were calling the shots like the way it should be. Hats off to Mircosoft and Bungie for having Hollywood do their movie on their terms! Way to go! Having Peter Jackson as an exec produce will also ensure that this movie will be done right and will be of high quality. I can’t wait to see what Weta’s interpretation of Master Chief looks like. The right people are making this movie. For an excellent recap of Halo’s journey to the screen check out the Great Hollywood Journey Parts 1, 2, and 3 written by Bungie’s Joseph Statten HERE, HERE, and HERE.
I also want to give a shout out to the excellent fan site because it took me two weeks to do the research on this script for the review and this site was a big help. You see, I never played the Halo games (Kellvin finished both Halo games), hell I don’t even own an Xbox. But after reading Splinter Cell and Halo, I want to go out and get one. I’m a PC gamer into the RTS games like the awesome Command and Conquer series and Starcraft. The only console game I really love is the Metal Gear series, which is screaming to be made into a movie. I used to be snobbish and believe that the first person shooters were better on the PC’s because of better gaming hardware and in doing the research for Halo I discovered that it is not necessarily so. The Halo series has a rich mythology and universe and extends beyond the games into novels and all sorts of cool stuff. It is amazing how big the Halo fan base is out there. I was amazed. Then again both games have made over half a billion bucks. I haven’t been a hardcore gamer like I used to prior to my move to LA in November 2002 – but I am going to get back into it now because after reading both Splinter Cell and Halo scripts that alone makes me want to get back into gaming. I can’t believe what I have been missing out on. The Halo movie is written for the hardcore fan and for the science fiction movie fan. Like me, you don’t have to be a fan of the game to enjoy this movie. The script is relentless; Master Chief gets in and out of one jam after another.
Lets take a look at Act 1.
Halo opens with a series of scorched snapshots. Fragments. As memory. This is MASTER CHIEF’S DREAM.
We open on a SPARTAN HELMET, and a REFLECTION in its visor.
In the reflection, we see buildings. The design and architecture of the buildings tell us this is not Earth. The suns are low in the sky, and bathing the landscape blood red.
We snap back to show the full figure of the SPARTAN and folks we are introduced to MASTER CHIEF (MC for short for the rest of this review). Seven foot tall, clad head to toe in MJOLNIR armor, holding a MA5B ASSAULT rifle.
We pull back some more to reveal behind MC, another fifty SPARTAN WARRIORS. All the Spartans have their gaze directed at the skies where a vast shadow or cloud is eclipsing the twin suns.
Only this shadow turns out to be literally thousands of Covenants drop ships! (I can’t wait for these WETA toys!) We cut to a battlefield across the wasteland where the Spartans and the Covenant are locked in ferocious combat. The Spartans are super-warriors. Combat machines – except that beneath their armor is genetically refined human flesh and blood. Despite their physical size, they are fast. We watch them turn-aim-fire, the speed of their reaction is unnatural. They seem fuelled by nitrous oxide and amphetamines. There is something hypnotic about the way they fight. Amidst the chaos, there are patterns. Across the battlefield, we can see precise movements echoed from Spartan to Spartan. The same motion in the way a weapon is raised, the leap and roll to avoid an explosion. The Spartan Warrior training is embedded deep within them.
The Covenant provides a contrast. Among the various species that make up the alien ranks, we can see the tall and regal ELITES, the massive HUNTERS, the gorilla-sized GRUNTS, and the thin and feral JACKALS. Cool, huh? They fight with their own brand of specialized ultra violence. Less controlled than their human enemy, they are zealots, rabid. They roar as they charge, plasma blazing from their weaponry. In close quarters, they tear and rip and claw. Many more of the alien warriors are falling and dying. In comparison to the Spartans, the Covenant is far, far greater in number. As we watch the scene unfold, something becomes very clear. The tide of the battle is turning inexorably against the humans. We cut to MC maintaining a barrage of fire as the Spartans to the left and right of him are lacerated by plasma fire. We cut to another Spartan as a plasma grenade sticks to his chest. He double sup to protect his brothers then flies apart as the grenade explodes. We cut to another Spartan walking: dazed, blackened, blood-smeared, half his armor blown from his body, half his arm hanging useless at his side. We cut to a group of three Spartan driving a WARTHOG VEHICLE – one driving, one on shotgun, one on the rear canon – as hey break ranks to charge the enemy then skid, roll and die under a rain of fire. Here, and throughout, the combat feels real. Hard, bloody, and brutal. We cut to the city burning, then to the twin suns blazing, and then to black and silence. The year is 2552. A coalition of alien species, the Covenant, is waging a genocidal holy war against mankind and mankind is losing.
Now that is what I call an opening folks. We cut to Outer Space to a gas-giant planet and orbiting the planet, there is what appears to be a vast metal ring: the circumference of a small moon rotating slowly. We can just make out a strange feature of the metallic band. The interior is a wrap-around landscape, made up of the same foliage-greens, water-blues and dust-yellows we know from views of our planet. It is as if someone has cut a strip from Earth and lined the inside of this artificial world. HALO. A rip in space occurs and out of the fissure, a human built battle cruiser appears – THE PILLAR OF AUTUMN.
Hulking, grey, massive – a great block of a space ship, as solid as a concrete bomb-shelter, designed purely for war. On the underside of its snub nose, a portal, behind which is the bridge where a man stands, gazing out. The commander of this vessel: CAPTAIN KEYES. He looks out at the planet and its ring moon. Behind him, the bridge crew is at their posts, manning the flight decks. He surveys the scene and calls out for CORTANA. Only none of the bridge crew responds. Instead, he is replied by a female voice – the voice of the Pillar of Autumn’s artificial intelligence. He asks Cortana two questions, where the hell are they, and did we lose them. Cortana responds that they made a blind jump. She scans the constellations to get a fix on their position, as for whether they lost them…Captain Keyes sees for himself as we see multiple slip space fissures, similar to the one from which the Pillar of Autumn appeared. Through each fissure, COVENANT CAPITAL SHIPS appear. Cortana is like at least we’ve drawn them away from Earth. But in ninety seconds, the Covenant will be all over them. Keyes issues combat alert alpha. Cortana orders all hands to combat posts and to prepare to repel boarders. On the lower deck, Engineers and Medics scramble to position. Marines grab hardware from weapon racks, pulling on helmets and flak jackets. One group of soldiers stands as a contrast to the adrenaline and commotion. An oasis of calm. This is MAJOR SILVA and his men the HELLJUMPERS – the special-forces unit stationed on the Pillar of Autumn. Major Silva tells the Helljumpers that a s**t storm is coming. He smiles and tells his men, “let’s spill blood.” Fighter craft spill from the flight bays to intercept the incoming Covenant craft. Captain Keyes looks out as the stream of tiny fighter craft, dwarfed in both size and number by the approaching enemy vessels. The first of them are already being engaged by Covenant fighters. The battle has begun but Captain Keyes is looking beyond it to Halo. He wants to know more about it. Cortana responds unknown, artificial, it’s not a space station and not occupied by Covenant. It’s nitrogen and oxygen rich. Life supporting. That is all Keyes needs to hear. Keyes orders Cortana to get in close. They are on approach vector now and Keyes tells Cortana that it is time to wake their war dog!
We cut back to MC’s dream and we are back under the blood-red twin suns and close quarters combat with the Covenant. MC seems to be alone in this fight. The last of the Spartans. He fires into faces and chests of the Covenant troops at near point blank range. He is completed surrounded by the aliens. Under his feet are tangled carpets of bodies. The image whites out and fades back in to the Cyro-Storage chamber. MC wakes up. Two Cyro engineers are in awe of him. One of them is like Holy C****t, would you look at the size of it. His buddy tells him there’s a man in there. The door to the Cyro-Storage chamber cracks its seal, and then rises open. The Spartan lunges forwards, reflexively, snapped into consciousness. The two engineers jump back. MC reaches out to place a hand either side of the Cyro-Chamber, then steps out. He takes a moment as he surveys his surroundings. Looks to the left, then his right. Then down at the two men. He towers over them and they seem to shrink under the blank gaze of his visor as he speaks his first words on page 10 of this script. “What are my orders?” Now that is dialogue. That is cool. You don’t even have to be a fan of the game to know that in movie talk, those 4 words speak volumes about his character and what he does. A guy who gets the job done. That is the dialogue of a s**t kicker who does what he does and the following is an example.
As MC makes his way through a route corridor, a handful of Marines are crouched behind a makeshift barricade, in an intense firefight with the invading Covenant. MC assesses the situation and takes a Sergeant’s assault rifle and two grenades from the Sergeant’s belt clip and steps up to the barricade. Beneath him, a Marine Corporal crouches holding an M6D pistol in hand. The Corporal’s nametag reads JENKINS. MC chucks the two grenades into the shadows. He empties his clip. After the double detonation of the grenades, a GRUNT appears. The foot soldier of the Covenant army. Normally – stocky, broad, and powerful. But this Grunt is dazed and badly wounded. Blue blood is splashing from his torso. MC reaches down and takes the Corporal’s M6D pistol. He glances at the handgun – and sees that the Corporal has customized it. Carved into the metal are the words: NOTHING PERSONAL. MC raises the pistol and puts a single round through the head of the wounded Grunt. The awestuck Jenkins lets MC keep his handgun. MC enters the bridge and reports to Keyes who gets MC up to speed and tells him they’re in the s**t. Keyes tells MC that he is going to get Cortana off this ship and keep her safe from the enemy. The Pillar of Autumn is going down and Cortana is not going down with it. Destruction or capture of the shipboard AI is not an option. If the Covenant captures her, they’ll learn everything. Force deployment, system schematics, weapons research. Not to mention the location of planet Earth.
Meanwhile, on the lower deck Major Silva and the Helljumpers are locked in their own savage firefight. Keyes gives the order over the ship wide intercom to abandon ship and to take lifeboats, drop-ships, any means of escape available. Regroup on the ring. Back on the bridge, MC stands with Keyes who uses his fingerprint to unlock and open a section of the central bridge console. MC takes the Cortana chip and inserts it into a dock in his mjolnir armor – positioned in the back of his neck, the brain stem. MC leaves and makes his way down a narrow service tunnel towards the main corridor to the lifeboats. A covenant soldier stands in his way, an ELITE – tall, armored, athletic, in a sense the alien equivalent of the Spartan. A cobra strike – a classic game move, MC strikes with the butt of his assault rifle, taking out Elite’s shields and empties a clip into the alien’s torso. Thirty rounds fly through the gun in two seconds. MC then takes out 4 other grunts. Cortana is in good hands. She can talk to MC through his suit, which is hardwired into his neural network, and she is hardwired into his suit. An Elite, three jackals and four grunts get dropped and shredded with rounds as we see what it is like to be on the receiving end of a Spartan attack. MC makes it to the Lifeboat with some wounded marines. A female Lieutenant pilots the craft towards Halo. We follow the lifeboat as it enters Halo’s interior curve. We see other lifeboats from the Pillar of Autumn, following the same downward path, like a miniature meteor shower. The lifeboat crashes on Halo and only MC survives. MC steps out and watches the Pillar of Autumn crash land on Halo’s surface. MC hides and watches as some grunts and Blue and Black Elite search for survivors from the lifeboat crash. They see a foot print of MC and go after MC in GHOSTS – lightweight-scouting vehicles, each piloted by a single Elite, armed with two plasma canons. MC takes them out – won’t spoil it here but a cool sequence. MC pilots one of hijacked ghosts and plasma canons a firefight between surviving Marines from another lifeboat and the Covenant.
And that is just Act 1 or the first 30 pages of this tour de force 128 page script!
Here is a sneak peek of some key scenes in the beginning of Act 2, which starts with MC talking to the Sergeant and tells him he needs to regroup with the other survivors who must be scattered all over. The Sergeant made contact with a Pelican drop ship pilot who survived, name of Carol Rawley. Call-sign- FOEHAMMER. Apparently, Foehammer and MC go back.
At the crash Pillar of Autumn crash site – the Covenant swarm above it excited and triumphant at the destruction of the enemy vessel. Inside, Captain Keyes and some flight deck crewmembers survived the crash in the bridge. A cluster of Plasma grenades blows the barricade to the bridge apart. The Covenant forces swarm over the destroyed barricade and pour into the bridge. We meet the JACKAL: the slender, hunched, bird-like Covenant. The Jackal advances with its comrades like a roman centurion, firing from and crouching behind the distorting window of an energy shield. They slaughter the survivors and swarm over Captain Keyes.
The survivors of the Pillar of Autumn manage to make a base camp.
MC sustained an injury with his tussle with the Ghost – MC removes the breastplate of his armor. Beneath is a black body suit made of flexible material, and on this body suit, we can see various lacerations around his torso. Through these lacerations, MC’s torso is partially revealed, and we catch our first glimpse of his actual flesh. His skin is colored an abnormal sunless snow-white.
MC dreams again and Cortana appears in her purplish blue light form in the form of a hot chick. MC removes his helmet – his skin is bleached white and his head his shaved to the scalp. The dream is of Planet Reach where one hundred and sixty four men, women, and children died. The Spartans failed to defend it. MC is the last of the Spartan who was airlifted out of there by Foehammer. For the fans that must know, we don’t really ever see MC’s face. Later on in the movie towards the end, on an extreme close-up on MC’s Face we occupy the same space he does, inside his suit. We see a series of flash cuts: his skin, his mouth, and his eyes. The face is marked with a fine mesh of scars, suggesting past injuries, or surgical procedures, or even experiments. His skin is a map of past conflict. To me it appears that MC is albino.
Anyway, at the base camp Major Silva and his boys interrogate a captured Elite. We find out that Keyes let himself be taken alive. The Covenant has him on board their orbiting battle cruiser: Truth and Reconciliation. Cortana finally appears to everybody and tells Silva that they are going in there because it is an opportunity for an AI to access the Covenant computer system. If they could get Cortana to any kind of control panel, they could learn everything about the Covenant – their weaknesses, their plans. It’s the kind of breakthrough that could turn the path of this war.
MC, Major Silva and the Helljumpers manage to sneak onto the loading bay of the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation. They run into HUNTERS: Twelve foot tall, six foot wide, covered head to toe in blue armor, a Fuel-Rod canon integrated into the right arm – which glows green as it is charging up to fire – and a shield integrated into its left arm.
The group finds Captain Keyes in one of the torture cells. He is strapped to an intricate machine, organic in design, crackling with energy. From the machine, around his bare arms and torso, are literally thousands of tiny barbed segmented needle – like insect legs. They are buried in his flesh.
The midpoint of the script takes place at base camp where Cortana, holographicly manifested, debriefs Captain Keyes, Major Silva, Master Chief, Foehammer, and a handful of marine officers. The orbital was constructed by an ancient race, known by the Covenant as the “Forerunners.” It seems that they left ruins and artifacts all over the galaxy. Some of those artifacts are the technology that the Covenant employs. And another of those artifacts is this ring they call Halo. The Covenant decided, for reasons best known to themselves, that humankind was an object of blasphemy, requiring extinction. In Halo, we now appear to have found an object of worship. Halo is their church, and the Forerunners are their Gods. According to the Covenant message traffic, Halo is a weapon. What kind of weapon isn’t clear, the Covenant themselves don’t know but they repeatedly describe the destructive power as ‘unimaginable.’ When the Pillar of Autumn crashed, the Covenant believes it disrupted something under the ring surface. The mission is clear. If Halo is a weapon, then the Covenant must be prevented from being able to use it. The Covenant refers to a location called “The Silent Cartographer”. It seems to be a map room, which reveals the position of Halo’s control center. Obviously, that control center is the best bet of shutting the system down.
Usually the midpoint act break is where I end my script reviews but to those entire Halo fanatic out there who must know what else happens and what else is in it –
- There is a Beach attack sequence between the Marines and the Covenant. MC pilots the warthog – the multi terrain four-wheel vehicle and we get to see MC driving ability. We see the Grunts use the needlers in this sequence too.
- Inside Halo, the Marines are ambushed by the Stealth Elite who brandish their energy swords and literally cut their enemies in half. Cool sequence.
- Later we see the FLOOD INFECTION FORMS – each the size of a football, bloated, propelled by a seething carpet of small tentacles on the underside on the underside of its main form. We also see the horror and goriness of the Flood infection vessels upon the infected marines and Covenant.
We meet the monitor of Zero Four – 343 Guilty Spark who annoys MC.
There are some other twists and turns and I am not going to spoil the end but it’s huge! Hardcore fans of the series won’t be disappointed because the ending is from the game. I won’t say which one though. Wait until 2007 to find out.
There ya have it folks. A look at one of the big upcoming films of 2007 and Peter Jackson’s next project.
Come back next week when we have yet another script review.
Source: LatinoReview

There you go and the has a new release date: 12-31-06.

[Cy Skywalker]

Ok well LatinoReview seems to have some irritability factor...I sincerely do not trust that PJ will do this movie. It's too far-fetched...it's not the sort of artst movie he's done before, not unless he can make it something the game is not. I did tho only skim over that post, so could be wrong. Quality...to some yez, according to this. Fanboys flock and rejoice.

[iliveforthis99]

No Peter Jackson is directing HALO i've heard it from other places as well.

[MFB]

Executve Producer, actually. No word yet on who's directing.

I doubt that script is real. The chances of them leaking the first act of the script before the movie has even started filming is very unlikely, especially on a tight-liped project such as this. I'd say hang tight on new for about 6 months or so. The movie isn't schedualed for release until 2007 anyway.