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Subject: "There Will Be a Halo Movie"

LMAO, blaming the "lawyers." Nice scapegoat Frankie...can't admit that your revenue sharing scheme has scared away several prominent film makers? Fund it yourselves? Nice joke.

  • 11.22.2010 5:52 PM PDT

Guys...think real deep n hard. What was the last good videogame movie you've seen?

  • 11.22.2010 5:55 PM PDT

Posted by: Dalebec7
Guys...think real deep n hard. What was the last good videogame movie you've seen?


That's really irrelevant. Whether the movie is good or not doesn't mean it shouldn't be attempted. Most games don't have the established Universe and adaptability of Halo.

Similar things have been said about games based on movies yet several Star Wars games have been quite good and trumped that norm.

  • 11.22.2010 6:04 PM PDT


Posted by: crimsonincubus
They really shouldn't make a movie out of halo.


Yeah your right. Epic Sci-Fi movies never work out.<======Sarcasm

  • 11.23.2010 2:16 AM PDT

Seriously Oak, Ive been doing this -blam!- for 16 years, gimmie my Friggen starter Pokemon and dont call me till im the champion! ¬_¬

Apparently it all broke down cus of merchendising rights, but seriously? George Lucas was allowed to keep the merc. rights for star wars cus they had no faith in it

they still made enough to feed every ethiopian village for 10 years!


Im kinda intreguied on the idea of a TV series :P

  • 11.23.2010 4:31 AM PDT

Seriously Oak, Ive been doing this -blam!- for 16 years, gimmie my Friggen starter Pokemon and dont call me till im the champion! ¬_¬


Posted by: Dalebec7
Guys...think real deep n hard. What was the last good videogame movie you've seen?


correction, what was the last Non-Uwe Boll directed video game movie youve ever seen

He asked the guys who make metal gear if he could do a movie, they practically laughed in his face :P

Silent hill was Awesome, stopped caring for resident evil, sure i didnt care much for Doom, but at least it goes down in the book of "How not to butcher a video game classic" (Which Mr Boll should probobly read)

  • 11.23.2010 4:41 AM PDT

"Question. Which Spartan is best?"
"That's a ridiculous question."
"False. Master Chief."
"Well, that's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought."
"Spartans shoot Sangheili. Spartans. Sangheili.....Battle Star Galactica."

If they DO, in fact, make a Halo movie, they need to make sure that it has big names and a great director/producer. Or it will fail, and fail hard.

  • 11.23.2010 5:51 AM PDT

I AM STEUDTE And I love the USAF and Elites.

I hope its not a Jap movie

  • 11.23.2010 7:31 AM PDT

"Question. Which Spartan is best?"
"That's a ridiculous question."
"False. Master Chief."
"Well, that's debatable. There are basically two schools of thought."
"Spartans shoot Sangheili. Spartans. Sangheili.....Battle Star Galactica."

Bruce Willis as MC!

  • 11.23.2010 9:55 AM PDT

UNSC Pumkin Chunkin

But what the gamers dont understand is that Halo IS A MOVIE. All of the cinimatics all of the backstory and the story line and all of the characters and plots that get you hooked on a character. I think that making a halo movie would just be all of the cinimatics put together as well as some story boarding to tie all of the cut scenes and unanswered questions that the community has. To make an exciting movie bungie would have to compile and bring up a whole new standpoint on the halo universe i.e. the story behind ODST. We knew minuscule things about the hell jumpers. We knew that they were there but we didnt know who they were, so, bungie made a huge production about bringing them into the story, yet they were still just a chunk of the main theme. For bungie to make a good and gripping movie involving halo they are going to have to make either another exciting lost story about master chief or cook up an entire new standpoint from another characters standpoint of the universe.

  • 11.23.2010 11:31 AM PDT

MJOLNIR Mark VII in Reach! We can make it happen!!!

Just don't let Uwe Boll anywhere near it.

  • 11.23.2010 12:23 PM PDT

Escalators don't break, they just become stairs.

I think it would be an epic FAIL! Even if it got bad reviews though, I like to watch a bad movie made after a good book or game. Mybest example is the Eragon movie. Great book. Horrible Movie. i think halo would be the same way.

  • 11.23.2010 2:58 PM PDT

I've realised that I've been expelled from my mother's uterus as if being shot from a canon, towards a barn door covered in rusty hooks and old nail files. It's a matter of how you use the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way, and try not to do anything dastardly to your fellow creatures.

They should base the movie on contact harvest. Mostly because it shows the beginning of the Human-Covenant war. So you don't really need to have played halo or already followed the storyline. And Johnson would be BA as always.
Only downside wou,d not be having master chief in it.

  • 11.23.2010 3:59 PM PDT

this r sig?

As long as Micheal Bay, Stephen Spielburg, George Lucas, and 343 Industries stays away I'm fine.

  • 11.23.2010 6:14 PM PDT

Cave Johnson here, we're done!

PS: If you are reading this comment while imagining my voice, don't panic. That's just a side effect of the testing.


Posted by: Sergeant Murph

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Posted by: Sergeant Murph
1. Should be rated PG-13
NO. A PG-13 Halo Flood would never carry the same scary feeling that they're supposed too in Halo CE. If we want this movie to carry the same epic, tragic and somber feel that we've wanted since Halo 2 was announced, it must be rated R.


I know where you're coming from, and I can see why you think that, but the fact of the matter is that R rated movies always recieve less of an audience that PG-13 movies. For quality's sake, yes, it should be R. But in order to make it into theaters and stay for more than a week, PG-13 would be the better option.

Besides, as much as I am a fan of action movies, I've never been a fan of unnecessary mutilation and gross images that R movies generally provoke more than others. I don't want Halo to become Saw Games 2.0 just because the Flood is implemented.


No, it doesn't need a PG-13 label to stay in longer than a week, most of the kids anyways will get older siblings or parents or friends to get them in anyways. Most of all that just because the Movie is rated R, doesn't mean that it won't be successful, remember there are just as many adults as there are kids, and a good percentage of them are sci-fi fans who will watch it regardless of anything.

Limiting them to PG-13 will hamper their abilities to think big. I want them to have the option of "Let's take it to the saw level" but then letting them realize that it shouldn't rest at that kind of level. If they are stuck in the tween friendly zone then it's going to have taken out any chance of seeing how brutal the halo universe is when it comes to combat. I don't expect to see arms and legs flying off frequently like in 300, but I would rather see that then some crappy star wars plasma round to the chest that only leaves a "scorched" spot when it hit. I want to see a burst of flame coming off of the skin as the plasma hits a marine, I want to see burnt stubs from a plasma grenade, I want to see Halo at it's greatest point in realism, and still maintaining subtlety when it comes to the violent action scenarios. Because that is how you make a good science fiction movie. The violence isn't even important when you get involved with the story, but hearing that it's not there is just a slap to the face for the story.

Not too mention that this is Halo that we are talking about, the only intensive action parts are brief, and without a huge emphasis on the action that is happening.

  • 11.23.2010 7:24 PM PDT
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As if this really matters.

My suggestions for a good Halo movie:

Make it have an R rating.

Keep Steve Downs as the voice of Master Chief, obviously not the body.

DON'T SHOW MASTER CHIEF'S FACE!!!!!


Among other things...


  • 11.23.2010 7:29 PM PDT

Ehh.. I don't have really good feelings about this, I don't think it'd be really good, if even good at all. Halo just isn't something I'd like to watch, it's something that I want to participate in instead. Plus, what if they do what they did with Doom? That was just fail.

  • 11.23.2010 7:36 PM PDT

bungie signed a contract with activision so why would they continue the halo franchize

  • 11.24.2010 12:28 AM PDT

i like bungie.net

it would be great going to the cinema with fellow halo fans to see it no?

  • 11.24.2010 12:54 AM PDT
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Unfortunately, movies have a very small window of time to explore the intricacies that other storytelling mediums portray in their expected length. Given how expansive the Halo universe already is, a Halo movie would have to be very, very specific and contextual to be good. Otherwise we have a story with no background, or a bunch of background without much of a story.

Movies that hang on the "beginnings" for a good portion of the film significantly reduce the effect of the climax.

Then again, it seems that the Halo franchise is very swiftly moving away from the atmosphere that Nylund set for us... so who knows.

  • 11.24.2010 1:19 AM PDT

Posted by: Gandalf: I'm new. And a wizard.

Sapphire just got even more awesome.

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Posted by: THORSGOD: Nor is he ever early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

I'd like to see how it turns out.

  • 11.24.2010 1:44 AM PDT
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It's Hazard Time

Sounds good, hopefully it will be like Resident evil (good but not 100% like the games) and not like doom/all others, which tries to make the game into a movie, and fail utterly.
It must have a unique storyline, a good one, and feel "halo" without being copy-pasted from the games.
Halo Legends got the idea, like "the package" or maybe even "Protoyope" (the one with "ghost"

  • 11.24.2010 3:56 AM PDT

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