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Subject: The Halo Movie Discussion Thread
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Posted by: Jo_Mama
I believe that if bungie was given complete control over the movie and it weas made in CG, it could turn out good. As said before, there should be no sassy sidekicks(cortana), no love story and no 1 liners after kills. Also the voices shuld be done by the same people that did them in the game. 1 movie per book, The Fall Of Reach should have more background on whats going on with earth and the human race. The Flood should be an outline of the game. Me and my brother had discussed this a long time ago and thought that it was a cool concept.


I disagree with the one movie per book idea. There wouldn't be enough story in the The Fall of Reach to get audiences interested. And many Halo players wouldn't be excited until the part that they've played. Now, of course this might seem to leave part of the story out, but the solution is simple. I say the beginning of the movie is a nice view of Threshold, but without Halo in view. Camera pans to the left to reveal The POA exiting slipstream. Cut to inside the ship w/ Keyes-Cortana talk about Cole Protocol, etc. Then one by one, Covenant ships enter the system. It goes through what happens in the game until MC lands on Halo. At this point he thinks to himself, "Looks like Reach." He then has sudden flashes of painful memories, and his previous experiences are revealed via flashback.

As for the cast, you can't just have the MC in his helmet the whole time. He would be too disembodies for the viewer to relate with, and wouldn't work well as a main character. There has to be a few scenes with his helmet off. Now, I obviously can't choose who to cast by appearance, since I've never seen the MC. So I would choose by voice, and then think of how they would look as a second criteria. And my choice would defanitely be Kiefer Sutherland. The voice is perfect, and he would look like a complete badass in MJOLNIR. Now as for Cortana, she has to be CG, since that's what she actually is. I suppose you could model her after an actress for familiarity reasons to non-Halo players, but it would be best to retain her appearance and voice from the game. Keyes, hmm, Shatner haha! Nah, even though his experience as a space captain would serve him well, it would turn the roll of Keyes into a joke, which it defanitely shouldn't be. Tommy Lee Jones comes to mind, but doesn't quite fit perfectly. Suggestions anyone? Sargeant Johnson would defanitely have to be Samuel L. Jackson. Yep, no question about it. Then you could just fill the Corps ranks with extras, and get the guy who drove R2-D2 to do the Grunts. As for Elites, talk to Shaq. He always seems to enjoy acting in his movies, but the audience doesn't. This way he gets to be acting to his heart's content, and the audience doesn't even have to know its him. Of course, you might just wanna get the guys that were the Preds in AVP, ya know, save a couple million bucks. Hunters, defanitely animatronics, no CG it looks like crap as evidenced by the Burly Brawl in Reloaded. I think everyone should have learned never to transfer a live action character to CG from that movie. The entire movie would have to be CG if you were going to have a character be. And I don't think a CG movie would attract the outside audience that Halo needs. As for the rest of the Covies, animatronics for close ups and CG at extreme distances or for a crowd effect. That's how I think they should do it to attract the greatest outside audience and still please the Halo Fanatics like us.

  • 08.22.2004 10:49 PM PDT
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Mostly good ideas. but i must disagree with you on somethings. grunts are about 5'5 to 5'8 man. Definatly not midgets. they look tiny to you because you are 7 feet tall. i think that the man who played the sergeant in ALIEN 2 is the only choice we even have. If you haven't seen this movie, you need to. And i think that all the covies should be CG, close up and far away. See, they just look more realistic that way. I'm not trying to be a critic you know, but those are indeed my opinions. if we can't do a movie for each book, i like your idea man.

[Edited on 8/22/2004 11:03:35 PM]

  • 08.22.2004 11:01 PM PDT
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well, i'm going to bed. c/u around .

  • 08.22.2004 11:25 PM PDT
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yes. i definitely think there should be a movie. when i was both playing the game and reading the book i imagined it in movie form. i think it should be in CG cuz when i was reading it, thats how i imagined it. by the characters looking the same AND sounding the same, it will seem more real, and will be better. and bungie should make it entirely. hollywood is like a plague of locusts and if it gets its hands on this, it'll be the biggest letdown ever. like some other people said; they include some stupid romance, sassy sidekick, and it'd go all to hell. plus, they'll try to put bigname stars in the character slots, not becuz they're good for the role, but becuz people like stars. the movie needs to be madethe way it is. in doing that, Bungie will create a masterpiece.

[Edited on 8/23/2004 1:41:01 AM]

  • 08.23.2004 1:39 AM PDT
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hey trunks bro, some real good idea there about an alternative to having a movie for a book... probably the best alternative ive seen so far. Id say, if they have only one movie, listen to the man Trunks here! (course, Im such a fanatic Id lap up any Halo related screen moment. Id pay to see the MC scratch his ass for two hours if it was on the big screen. Itd probly get some sort of sritical acclaim for ebing so edgy too)

A few people have suggested the Flood would make the movie too much like Alien... Id say with careful direction that this could be totally avoided... my argument? Well, Alien, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection had small numbers of aliens in claustrophobic environments... its not really the same as just simple hordes of mindless things running headlong into oncoming fire. Now Aliens did have lots of... aliens, but it was more of an action movie really.

one other thought... even though my guess is the whole idea was to flesh out the book, I dont think that any movie should have in depth covenant characters, as it would remove the 'faceless juggernought' approach somewhat. Sure keep key conversations, such as the end of first strike, but otherwise leave the elite to classic phrases such as "Wort Wort Wort" and the slower, more drawn out "WORT! WORT! WORT!" perhaps chuck in a (excuse my spelling) "AHH.... LONGDOMAS!!" "or a "ESHMORSHMOU-SHMEDDADOU"

  • 08.23.2004 3:54 AM PDT
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Are people still talking about my idea from yesterday?My idea was that the aliens could make a supersoldier to fight mastercheif and i said it could be a new type of flood and the covenant could use captian keyes as the new flood.

  • 08.23.2004 4:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: aminator3000
i am a banana

i like coconuts

i live in a fruit basket

i date a strawberry

thats right we are fruits

Hey same here!

  • 08.23.2004 4:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ropie

(dvota3000)We agree again Ropie great minds think alike even though i'm totally a dumass.[/quote]
HEAR HEAR CAUSE SO AM I!

Sweet me 2

  • 08.23.2004 4:31 AM PDT
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Pooping Grunt you are totally dum.

[Edited on 8/23/2004 4:34:31 AM]

  • 08.23.2004 4:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: Crazy Turkey
Ropie my man (and Devota) this is a place to discuss opinions and as such, we shouldnt be harassing people for not wanting a halo movie... assuming they share their ideas. Before anyone points out the obvious... people who dont really know what theyre talking about, and those that havent even read all of the books but still claim to be a master of them (especially the ones they havent even read at all) do NOT count in the above point. Oh yeah and Im not saying that people who havnt read the books have worthless opinions, quite the contrary, but... well, see my above exclusion.

I mean I can see a fair few good reasons NOT to make a Halo movie, even the im almost completely for it... the main one being that whilst giving the rights to anyone would almost lead to certain disaster, Bungie ARE NOT a movie studio... they may be (and I pray they are) keen to learn, but all the money in the world doesnt make up for experience in this case. It would really be a shame if Bungie destroyed their own movie.

I shall repeat a few things for all the new guys that cant be bothered reading through these swarms of crap (makes sense to me too!)
- Vin Deisel, by popular opinion, should NOT be the MC, but he could easily be a soldier like Corporal Locklear
- Most people seem to want CG or live\CG... I agree due to the fact that Anime lacks a certain level of detail, or if it has said detail, it tends to 'clutter' up the picture.
- Finally starting to see that most people want Eric Nylund to do the screenplay... good work team!


I didn't read the books yet, you gotta problem with that?

  • 08.23.2004 4:36 AM PDT
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Hello?

  • 08.23.2004 4:43 AM PDT
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WTFF?!?!?! I MISSED ONE DAY AND THERE ARE NINE NEW PAGES!!! THAT'S INCREDABLE!!!

  • 08.23.2004 5:24 AM PDT
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you should see the official halo2 speculation thread, it grows by like 13 pages a day now, it up to 217, yesterday it was at 205, it keeps growing faster and faster, soon i think it will explode.

  • 08.23.2004 5:29 AM PDT
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Cool, I got tired of reading............so.............um.............If I am behind, don't be afraid to correct me. For Further refrence I AM FEMALE!!! >.<

  • 08.23.2004 5:47 AM PDT
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If I make the Halo movie it would look like this:

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[Edited on 8/23/2004 5:51:27 AM]

  • 08.23.2004 5:51 AM PDT
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Don't hire me to make it, just lemme be in it. ^^

  • 08.23.2004 5:51 AM PDT
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ROPIE YOU STILL ROCK!

  • 08.23.2004 5:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Awful Waffle
ROPIE YOU STILL ROCK!

I'v been agreeing with ropie the whole time.

  • 08.23.2004 6:04 AM PDT
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I had an idea earlier that the aliens should make a supersoldier to fight mastercheif and i think it should be a new type of flood made up out of Captian Keyes's body.

  • 08.23.2004 6:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: Awful Waffle
Don't hire me to make it, just lemme be in it. ^^

There aren't many female characers, but you could be Cortana or FoeHammer

  • 08.23.2004 6:08 AM PDT
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Hello???Is anyone here???

[Edited on 8/23/2004 6:09:36 AM]

  • 08.23.2004 6:09 AM PDT
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OMFG why the hell is nobody online?

  • 08.23.2004 8:38 AM PDT
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Yea..lol im here. I think for the movie the plot should be the exactly the same as in the game. It should all be CG, except better looking (lol)...and uhhhhh, yeah

  • 08.23.2004 9:03 AM PDT
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The problem with making the movie in CGI is that there would be almost no difference between it and the game at that point.

Why not just use better models and a different engine for all the cutscenes? At that point, you basically have a Halo movie that is pretty f**king cool. In my opinion though, it seems a little reduntdany because there already is a game where you can see all of that and also BE it.

Why does anyone want to see the same thing only a little better?

I am totally gonna get a lot of flack for what I'm about to say but, the only way I could see this movie working is if it were animated by the same people who did the Barbie My Scene movies.

They use a semi-detailed style that creates an almost seemless intergration of unrealistic characters to near photo-realistic backgrounds. From a visual standpoint, it looks really cool because the animation is fluid.

In MY opinion, it would look totally badass to see the events of Halo portrayed in this kind of style.

And if anyone asks how I saw the Barbie My Scene movie, it was on Nickelodeon, and I decided to watch it.

  • 08.23.2004 9:24 AM PDT
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I think they shud make a Halo movie...cus we kno they can make the armor (Nightmar Armor.com) So it would be great if they made a movie...no offense CabKiller but the game wud get higher sales if they made a movie...cus people ud think...movie's good...y don't i check out the game

  • 08.23.2004 9:31 AM PDT