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Subject: How a Halo movie needs to be done.
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I pray every night asking whatever I pray to to stop the production of a Halo movie in it's tracks.

  • 12.01.2007 6:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: Dr Cox
I pray every night asking whatever I pray to to stop the production of a Halo movie in it's tracks.


Same here. Except I don't pray, I pay Ninjas... or I would if a had any money left after Mass Effect.

  • 12.01.2007 7:02 AM PDT
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Yeah, halo movie would not be good. I think the only way it could be good was if there was an insanely good director behind it. Even then it's a long shot...

  • 12.01.2007 7:06 AM PDT

Dianna Agron is the epitome of perfection.

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Peter Jackson.

He's on the team for the movie, is he not good? Along with almost all of the Lord of the Rings special effects guys and costume designers?

I would love to see a Halo movie, everyone just kind of expects Hollywood to make a Halo movie.

  • 12.01.2007 8:53 AM PDT
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Though i was temped by what i saw via xbl a halo movie without a doubt has got to be ANIMATED! Although the clips i saw were cool to try to do a full length live action movie wouldn't work. After just seeing the commercials for Beowulf i know animation is the way to go. Unlike live action you wouldn't
have to make any changes for any storyline to carry over to the big screen via animation. An added bonus: You wouldn't have to worry about whoever played master chief commiting the ultimate sin of showing his face on camera.

  • 12.01.2007 6:03 AM PDT
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First off; kind of new to this or i'd put this in the underground forum to start with. Second; I feel all y'all's comments. I'd love to see a halo movie BUT,
the sucess to suck factor for movies based on video games has been badly slanted to the sucky side. I don't won't to see that happen to halo. Do it right or don't even try.

[Edited on 12.01.2007 11:18 AM PST]

  • 12.01.2007 11:15 AM PDT
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who do you think should play spartan 117?

  • 12.01.2007 11:50 AM PDT

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Chuck Norris should play the cheif

  • 12.01.2007 6:14 PM PDT
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i didnt rread what you wrote but the thing about a halo movie,, yeah that would be sick lol a movie about halo 1,2,3 I;d buy/watch it, who wouldn't

  • 12.01.2007 9:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Darth Qwaz
Though i was temped by what i saw via xbl a halo movie without a doubt has got to be ANIMATED! Although the clips i saw were cool to try to do a full length live action movie wouldn't work. After just seeing the commercials for Beowulf i know animation is the way to go. Unlike live action you wouldn't
have to make any changes for any storyline to carry over to the big screen via animation. An added bonus: You wouldn't have to worry about whoever played master chief commiting the ultimate sin of showing his face on camera.

I disagree.

I recently saw Beowulf, and most people probably know that the movie is animated. While it wasn't terrible, it also has some serious flaws, related to that animation.

The fight scenes of the movie were animated very well, and they were cool to watch. However, that has a very large, inherent flaw: The actions of the main character were impossible. "Well, isn't fighting a dragon and punching it in the face just sort of like that?", you ask. Well, yes. But here's the thing. It wasn't that the actions were not possible per se, but that the movie completely and utterly failed to give the impression that they COULD be possible. This was due entirely to the animation style. When you're watching a cartoon person jump onto a cartoon dragon, that does not convey the idea that our hero was a real person, a real man who was performing superhuman feats. It just gives the inpression that this character could do these things, because he doesn't live in our world.

And that is why I think that a full length, feature movie done in CG would be a bad idea. Our hero is John 117, he is real. The warthog he drives is made of metal and rubber. The aliens he shoots are made of flesh and blood. This reality is not possible with animation as of yet.

In reality, a movie would probably be best done with a mixture of CG and live action. Most serious movies are taking this route, and it has turned out fairly well. The live action provides realism, and the CG, when done right, gives that dose of epic that so many movies are looking for.

  • 12.02.2007 10:00 AM PDT
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Thanks for the info, i'd only seen the adds so i wasn't sure how the full movie was. If they can make it work then more power to them. I'll admit i'm nearly
paranoid over the fact as much as i want to see a halo movie i don't want it to end up on the steaming pile of games that had all the promise to be a
great movie then fell flat on their face. Our beloved halo series deserves better.

  • 12.02.2007 11:10 AM PDT
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Whoever plays the Master Chief has to have a deep voice and they have to be pretty tall. That's the only thing that should be required to play M.C.

  • 12.02.2007 11:19 AM PDT
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okay to some of you ppl whay are you talking about it wouldnt be good of course it would be good

  • 12.02.2007 3:43 PM PDT

Jamie Fox could totally play Johnson

  • 12.02.2007 3:52 PM PDT
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Jamie Fox could totally play Johnson

Are you crazy????

  • 12.02.2007 4:05 PM PDT

Ummmm im goanna go with nooo.....

  • 12.02.2007 4:09 PM PDT

Posted by: Darth Qwaz
First off; kind of new to this or i'd put this in the underground forum to start with. Second; I feel all y'all's comments. I'd love to see a halo movie BUT,
the sucess to suck factor for movies based on video games has been badly slanted to the sucky side. I don't won't to see that happen to halo. Do it right or don't even try.
ya um the only reasons all of the video game turned into movies were horrible were because almost all of them were directed by Uwe Boll who sux. This however is going to be directed by Peter Jackson who would most likely make it a hit. I also think ur crazy for thinking Jamie Fox should be Johnson. If any1 should be Johnson it should be Samuel Jackson or even possibly Will Smith. For the Chief i also think Chuck Norris is a good call who wouldnt want to see Chuck Norris play the Master Chief. I think that the movie should take place from Johns childhood to the end of the book The Fall Of Reach. Therefore u would need good actors to play as the other spartans. Just a couple suggestions im gonna throw out there.
Kelly-Keira Knightly
Chief-Either Chuck Norris or Bruce Willis
Fred-Owen Wilson
Will-Mat Damon
Captain Keys(The Father)-Tommy Lee Jones
Linda-Angelina Jolie
Miranda Keyes-Rachel McAdams
Dr. Halsley-???
Chief Mendez-George Clooney

  • 12.02.2007 4:48 PM PDT
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Peter jackson is the one and only one to produce the halo movie.To see lord of the rings on the big screen produced to his standards was a revalation.
People who cannot see the outcome of a halo movie have very littie imagination, If you cant imagine something then how can it become a reality. A halo film will, in my mind, explode and consume all non believers. (ha ha)
IT will reach out and turn the whole world onto whot we already play and love.
BELIEVE.
Real actors should be used other wise it will take realism away from the storyline
HALO COMBAT EVOLVED SMASHED VIDEO GAMES INTO A NEW AGE OF GAMEPLAY.
I do not think Bungie or Microsoft would allow a sub standard production of a halo film.

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  • 12.03.2007 2:52 AM PDT
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chuck norris .... bruce willis ... these guys are not near tall enough to play the chief ... especially bruce willis .... also we don't need an established actor to play the chief WE SHOULD NOT SEE HIS FACE so heck a stunt man can play him and since an actor shouldn't play him they can use the original voice actor to voice him and thus make alot of fans happy ... same thing with cortana she should definatly be cg and done by the same voice actress

  • 12.03.2007 5:00 AM PDT
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I Think the halo movie would be similar to the doom movie.

I think that it would need huge backing by hollywood and hopefully get some good stars on board.

I can already see Samuel L Jackson playing johnson. :)

If it was to be made i relistically thinkwe could expect a huge movie capable of breaking box office records

  • 12.03.2007 2:36 PM PDT

Posted by: Darth Qwaz
Though i was temped by what i saw via xbl a halo movie without a doubt has got to be ANIMATED!

Nah.

  • 12.04.2007 3:56 AM PDT
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Thanks everyone, this is why i started this to get idea what other people were thinking. I'll admit that the animated route would be harder than some
might think because the few companies able to pull it off the first one i can think of is Sony (the final fantasy movies). I don't see them doing anything
that would help microsoft in anybodys lifetime. As long as peter j. stays as the one making it i do realize he could make it work. We never saw
master chief's face in the game so i don't want to see it in a movie. Samuel L. as Johnson? Hell yes! his style would be perfect. The only other one
i know is gunny (Full Metal Jacket, Mail Call, etc.) the odvious problem with him is last i checked he's still white. As for the rest, i'm not sure, y'all seem
to have some good ideas maybe one of the moderaters will see it and hopefully pass the word up the line.

  • 12.05.2007 6:11 AM PDT

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Chuck Norris should play the cheif

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  • 12.05.2007 6:21 AM PDT
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Uhm, who cares who plays chief. He'll have his helmet on during the whole movie, and they can just use something to change his voice.
It could be brittany spears for all we know. They don't have to take off his mask, and during credits, they don't have to show who is playing it; so they can keep the secret of chief, well, a secret still.

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so long story short is there a halo movie being made just now?

  • 12.05.2007 8:00 AM PDT

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