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And the best irony is that a good Spyhunter movie would be 100x easier to make then a good halo movie.

Exactly.  There is little if any cannon to use for a Spyhunter movie.  For Halo, you'd have to do a lot of things right or you'll really screw the pooch.

*Sees Paul Anderson's name*
*Begins to turn blue*
*Barfs all over the place*
*Murderous rage builds*
*Spawns villagers from RE4 then commands the Las Plagas infected to hack Paul Anderson apart*

How does that jack*** Anderson keep getting work. Hes the biggest pile of crap in hollywood. Every movie he touches turns to a pile of runny monkey feces!! Heck we'd be better off with a monkey than him directing anything else.

dvpierce wrote:

ConnertheCat wrote:

And the best irony is that a good Spyhunter movie would be 100x easier to make then a good halo movie.

117?

fixed.
And didn't I hear the Prince of Persia movie has a good script?

There's substantially more yet to Tolkien, but for many Jackson's LoTR trilogy was worth seeing anyway. Heck, Fellowship can stand on its own and be worthwhile even if the plug had been pulled on the other two, and Jackson's still on the Halo job.

One of Jackson's other major projects as a producer was a big-budget adaptation of sci-fi video game Halo to be directed by South African Neill Blomkamp.

However, plans for the film to be shot in Wellington were shelved last year.

Jackson said he expected renewed interest from Hollywood studios 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures to have Halo made as the Halo 3 video game will be released later this year.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4071531a1870.html

Last from the analysts was a ballpark of $170 million in H3 sales for the first 5 days. Anyway it might well be enough to spike Hollywood's greed again.

(Now, if we can just get Bungie to publish the Halo Story Bible... )

The problem is will they actually give him the resources he got for LotR? He'd basically need it to make a movie that isn't complete junk.

NAG wrote:

The problem is will they actually give him the resources he got for LotR? He'd basically need it to make a movie that isn't complete junk.

That is the $64M question. This'd be the 3rd time, tho; and last time the studios were shown that Bungie, Jackson et al'd rather refuse and see the plug pulled rather than short the budget... WETA's already got a fair amount of pre-production work done; and with Halo's ever-increasing sales each game and Jackson's box office record, if H3 takes in $150M+ the first week, Halo Wars and Jackson's own Halo universe game on the way to keep the franchise in the public eye, they may not be able to say no.

They's too greedy.

I don't see why all the studios aren't jumping on Halo.
1. The IP is phenomenal, has a gigantic fan base that will support the movie and go see it even if they know it will be crap.
2. The people who would generally care about the quality would also see that Jackson is involved, see it as his seal of approval, and also see it.
3. It's a goddamm trilogy
4. ?????????
5. profit

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I just wanna know who's going to play Cortana and if she'll be wearing body paint.

NAG wrote:

The problem is will they actually give him the resources he got for LotR? He'd basically need it to make a movie that isn't complete junk.

Actually he wouldn't need it. LOTR needed more of a mix of real world shots and CG but Halo could be entirely done in CG like Sky Captain/etc.

NightCougar_37 wrote:

NAG wrote:

The problem is will they actually give him the resources he got for LotR? He'd basically need it to make a movie that isn't complete junk.

Actually he wouldn't need it. LOTR needed more of a mix of real world shots and CG but Halo could be entirely done in CG like Sky Captain/etc.

Sky Captain wasn't entirely CG. It was a mix like LotR.

There were a few parts of LotR done on a sound stage though with CG like Sky Captain. Yeah the whole thing wasn't done like that but that was Sky Captain's gimmick.

Either way, it is going to cost them a lot or it will be Starship Troopers.