Yay! A halo movie!

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Software giant Microsoft has signed a deal with both Universal and Twentieth Century Fox that will allow them to make a movie based on Microsoft's popular video game, "Halo". The studios paid Microsoft US$5 million for the rights.

Microsoft will also get a cut of box office ticket sales generated by the film. The deal ends months of speculation. Microsoft brought the "Halo" film idea to Hollywood last spring, with messengers in costume delivering scripts to studios.

Universal will take over the domestic distribution and the film's production, while Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the film overseas. They're aiming to release the film in the summer of 2007.

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Coolio! I always thought a Halo film would be cool! They shouldnt set it exactly on the game, They should develop the back story, a film of the first book would be good. "The Fall of Reach" explains how the  spartans were augemented and stuff im reaing it for the second time now, its not very well written but the story is good.

Former Columbia president Peter Schlessel, who served as a Hollywood liaison for Microsoft, is producing. 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland was paid $1 million by Microsoft to write a script that met its approval. He'll now do a rewrite with studio notes, after which Universal will go out to directors.

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
Yay! A halo movie!

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They're aiming to release the film in the summer of 2007.

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cool

every time i see the thread, i think there is some clever punnery with microsoft saying hello

but its not

I suck at the game i mean suck it's the only game i really suck and my friends all rock at i hate playing 4 player every amn for themselves

I doubt the film will be good a game into a film it's sually the other way around

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Originally posted by Absorbation
I doubt the film will be good a game into a film it's sually the other way around 

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hmm halo movie, not too sure its always been just a game for me,,, like mario bros until they made a film lol

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)

Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pulls this off...

take your pick...

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Yeh, it will be good, those companys dont fool around in business, though i sucked at the game ...

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Anyway, i'm seeing, Universal + 20th Century Fox paid 5 Million Dollars...i could have bought the movie rights if i had won euro millions
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)

Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pull this off in time...

take your pick...

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I don't know about you but I can't picture myself watch a movie about a game I've played and know the whole story to already. And btw its microsoft *caught* subliminial messengning *caught*

it will rock

That looks pretty cool.  But if it is a let down, I will shoot myself

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Originally posted by DJeX
I don't know about you but I can't picture myself watch a movie about a game I've played and know the whole story to already. And btw its microsoft *caught* subliminial messengning *caught*

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Originally posted by Johny
Anyway, i'm seeing, Universal + 20th Century Fox paid 5 Million Dollars...i could have bought the movie rights if i had won euro millions

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Originally posted by TylerG
That looks pretty cool.  But if it is a let down, I will shoot myself

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Hmm this aught to be interesting.

they also made resident evil movie from the game, and mortal combat. those werent bad either.

whats the point with master chiefs head, we can see it on the cover already o.o

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Originally posted by Hobbes
Hmm this aught to be interesting.

they also made resident evil movie from the game, and mortal combat. those werent bad either.

whats the point with master chiefs head, we can see it on the cover already o.o

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why bother, it would be better to make a film out of something that would actually be good as a film, like metal gear solid

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Originally posted by Concord Dawn

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
That's less than 2 years to make a movie....
(even less if you take in account the time needed to get things started and finished)

Either it will
a) be a shitty movie (even for a "game2movie" movie)...
b) or that date is taken reaaaaaally optimistic...
c) they got tons and tons of money to pull this off in time...

take your pick...

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3rd option. This is Microsoft we're talking about.

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