Halo Movie 'Entirely Dead' Says Would-Be Director
Film's death due to disagreements between studios.


When Microsoft somewhat bizarrely showed a live-action Halo short at E3 last July (and released a couple more since then), it fueled fan hopes the long-dormant film project may be revived after all. Not so, says Neill Blomkamp, the director placed at the helm before the project was put on indefinite hold.

Blomkamp gives the bad news in an interview with Creativity Online. "The film is entirely dead," he said. "Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank."

The movie was being produced in a partnership between Universal and Fox, and according to Blomkamp, disagreements between the studios is what ultimately killed it. "That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry," he said. "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."

It's too bad, because the vision Blomkamp had for the Halo movie does sound pretty sweet. "I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you've seen in a while," he said. "And Universal was on board with that. I don't really remember what Fox thought about it, but Universal seemed down with it. It would have been cool, it would have been a unique take on things, science fiction in a dirty, organic way."

As for those shorts? "This is the first I've really spoken about those pieces. There's such a massive misconception about what those are," Blomkamp said. "In essence, those pieces have zero to do with the film. Like less than zero...It's basically, I guess, viral advertising for Halo 3, it's one of the many different promotional pieces you find out there."

In other potentially disappointing game-to-film news, movie site IESB (via Kotaku) reported the Gears of War adaptation was running into problems as well -- due to concerns over the ballooning budget -- and New Line may not move forward with it at all. Why? Why must we be perpetually doomed to Resident Evil movies and Uwe Boll?

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It would have been a crap movie anyways. Halo just didnt do it for me. Im not easily pleased.

I dont like Halo either but I dont think that would be the reason for it being crap. The reason would be that all games to movies are generally not good when adapted to the big screen. There are exceptions but the movie companies just dont seem to get it right.

because they havent played the game or games. and are just interested in money than pleasing fans. haha i think even a nerd would do better.

btw they totally screwed resident evil and im a halo fan. its just fun, and a game. lol

Although Resident Evil might not follow the game faithfully, I have to admit I enjoyed it.

I'm a huge Halo fan but something told me this wouldn't have worked out anyway. It just wasn't meant to happen I guess.

Frankly, I'd love to see it made into a movie. The game honestly did a shitty job of telling the epic story of the Halo universe. I didn't read the books either, but based on the summaries of how the books fit into the series, I'd like to see a little bit more. Besides, there are still 5 or 6 other Spartans out there we have yet to see kick some ass.

Yeah, I was hoping they would have brought at least 1 other Spartan into Halo 3. >_>

i was hopping it would work but deep down i knew it wouldnt i love halo a really good game but not ment to be a movie

BAH hum, the Resident Evil movies were some kind of awful, they might've been good for non fans, or the light player, but to a hardcore Resident Evil fan like myself, it was a crime worse than rape, murder, and vehicular manslaughter put together. The only good thing they did was make a nice looking Nemesis, and Tyrant. But back to the Halo movie thingy, I wouldn't of cared, I mean Halo has just never been my cup of tea, however, I know many of my friends will be very sad, to hear the movie is dead.