When Halo: Combat Evolved hit the original Xbox in late 2001, it was met with both critical and financial success. Since than, the series has become an absolute monster, spawning several sequels, each making a bigger splash than the last. We've also see spin-off games, novels, comics, and loads of other Halo-related media. But the one thing we still haven't seen, despite several attempts to remedy this, is a feature film.
Back in 2005, screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine) wrote a script for a Halo movie. The following year, D. B. Weiss (Lucky Wander Boy novel) and Josh Olson (A History of Violence) rewrote the script for a 2008 release. The film was supposed to be developed by 20th Century Fox and Universal, executive produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9). Production stopped and started several times, before Blomkamp finally announced that the project was dead in 2007.
Interest in a Halo movie once again seemed to skyrocket after Halo: Reach, the latest game in the series, pulled in around $200 million. Now Dreamworks is looking into the project. But, instead of adapting the games, which could cause some trouble with Fox and Universal, they're looking to adapt the novelizations. Screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) actually wrote a spec script based on the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach back in 2007, but there's word if anything is actually going to come of that.
At this point, I wonder if a Halo movie is even worth the trouble. You've got Fox, Universal, Microsoft, and now Dreamworks all involved in some capacity, and if I even remotely understood how the film business works, that might cause my head to explode.
Back in 2005, screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine) wrote a script for a Halo movie. The following year, D. B. Weiss (Lucky Wander Boy novel) and Josh Olson (A History of Violence) rewrote the script for a 2008 release. The film was supposed to be developed by 20th Century Fox and Universal, executive produced by Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), and directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9). Production stopped and started several times, before Blomkamp finally announced that the project was dead in 2007.
Interest in a Halo movie once again seemed to skyrocket after Halo: Reach, the latest game in the series, pulled in around $200 million. Now Dreamworks is looking into the project. But, instead of adapting the games, which could cause some trouble with Fox and Universal, they're looking to adapt the novelizations. Screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) actually wrote a spec script based on the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach back in 2007, but there's word if anything is actually going to come of that.
At this point, I wonder if a Halo movie is even worth the trouble. You've got Fox, Universal, Microsoft, and now Dreamworks all involved in some capacity, and if I even remotely understood how the film business works, that might cause my head to explode.
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