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Subject: Halo Movie Discussion Thread Mk II
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Poll: Do you want to see Halo (books and game) as a movie?  [closed]
Yes! I want to see Halo as a movie!:  57%
(404 Votes)
No! It would really suck!:  3%
(21 Votes)
I don't know...:  2%
(14 Votes)
Maybe, if Bungie has control...:  23%
(166 Votes)
Not if Hollywood ****s it up!:  15%
(109 Votes)
Total Votes: 714

We decided that the original Halo thread was too full, so we started a new one with the compiled list of likes and dislikes to start it off, so people know what the other thread says in its most basic form...

Celenon... a good friend of mine will post the list in the near future. And this thread hopefully will flourish as it's predecessor did.

-zog34

  • 08.26.2004 9:35 PM PDT
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ALL SUPPORTERS of this idea should sign the petition to create a Halo Movie. The site is posted below in my signature.

With over an astounding 1300 posts in our former thread, we have created a new thread once again dedicated to the idea of a Halo Movie. We have dubbed this thread "The Halo Movie Discussion Thread MARK 2." Following the original thread's discussion, we will be discussing ONLY the speculation of a Halo Movie. As Reikingo mentioned in the last Thread, this is not gospel. Anything posted here are just the opinions of the Halo Community towards the thought of a Halo Movie.

The last Thread seemed to pave the way for the "Facts of the Halo Movie" to present themselves. After compiling ALL of the info submitted by the Halo Community, we have taken the most popular thoughts and made a summary of what we (the Halo Community) want and do not want. Here are the compiled thoughts:

Positives:
- Bungie and Micosoft have as much control as possible
- Live Action/CG or just CG
- Movie should be based on the books
- The Fall of Reach is (at the moment) the most popular storyline idea out of the three books.
- Eric Nylund should be lead scriptwriter and any changes should be made with his consent.
- Multiple movies
- Marty O'Donnel should do the music
- Let Bungie's Cinematics Director (Joesph Staten) direct the movie because he captureed our attention already with the games.
- People seem to connect "Halo" with the movies "Aliens" (just a comment).
- Must have identifyable Spartans (personality traits, body features, abilities, ect.)
- This has to be a pretty high-budget movie to have sufficent special effects, ect.
- A rating to the movie will be applied by the censors, not us.

Negatives:

- No pompous Hollywood sleezebag should direct this film
- No anime Halo
- Do not show the MC's face? Bungie will decide.
- No cartoony Halo
- No love angles in the script
- No corny one-liners
- No off-plot story

Any and ALL of these facts can and will be decided upon by Bungie in the creation of a Movie. We posted these facts for the sole purpose to show Bungie what the Halo Collective would like to see if a movie was created in Halo's honor.

The main purpose of this new Halo Discussion Thread is to resume the collecting of ideas but to show what the Halo Community has said repeatedly already. Try thinking of new ideas and thoughts to add to our list. This is a new Thread to undo the clutter our previous Thread is currently in.

Reiginko says: If you are some sort of weird masochist, and want to read the original thread in its entirety, you can do so here. It's locked so that further discussion stays in this thread. Just keep in mind that it's over 1300 posts long.

[Edited on 9/6/2004 1:15:10 AM]

  • 08.26.2004 10:01 PM PDT
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Just so its here and noone else has to say it, Bungie should have most if not total control. Also, hollywood shouldn't screw with the story, i.e. love cheesy one-liners ect.

O.k. now I think that it should have up and comming actors, not famous fools. Also, it should be live action with cg covies. Next and most importantly, it should be shown from the marines point of view on planets and places other than halo. This would be better than spartans because they could talk and show emotions. But of course the spartans would still be there, but only at the end of battles, to finish them of course, so they mostly would have camios, but be in enough so you would like them. Any thing else to add would be great!

  • 08.26.2004 10:01 PM PDT
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Hey i really wanna see a halo movie. Im glad were finally doing something eheheheh. KIck ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 08.26.2004 10:24 PM PDT
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LOOK A HALO MOVIE WOULD ROCK EVERY ONE AS LONG AS THEY DONT -blam!- UP

  • 08.26.2004 11:25 PM PDT
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Hey Reikingo, can we get this post stickied to replace the messy and absolutely bombarded Halo Movie Discussion Thread above? Me and a select few have already compiled ALL the info in that thread and this "cleaned up" continuation would just make the discussion last even longer.

  • 08.26.2004 11:56 PM PDT
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I wont read the old one, too long lol. I think the idea of there being a Halo movie is great.

some points:

- Fall of Reach should be made first. It's the first book, and from what I've heard, the best story line.
- Large (very) budget for excellent effects, can't miss those wonderful sexy effects.
- Bungie should have MOST of the control, but the movie should also have have a good director with lots of experience, so the movie doesn't get screwed.
- Even coverage from Marines to the Spartans...

And just a question... how can they NOT show MC's face, if the movie is The Fall Of Reach, he's not in his suit the whole time, in fact, you probably see him less in the suit if I'm right... just a thought.

  • 08.27.2004 2:33 AM PDT
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Guiys we aren't the most popular thread any more. this is very bad advertisment for us. We need to become the most popular again. Ropie, Zog, celenon, Awfle, and Turkey we need help! BUt Why with another completely new forum thing. Somebody help me understand! what happened to the 52 pages of greatness!

  • 08.27.2004 3:00 AM PDT
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There Are A Few Things To Keep In Mind:

Halo Copyright Violations: If Hollywood or any other movie industry got involved errors and copyright issues would disrupt the balance of relations between bungie and the other comapnies. Ofcourse hollywood won't get involved but these are if possiblities... Making a Halo Movie is a priviege, not a right. If any other company try'd making one they'd have to ask Bungie for everything they have in the book or game. Like they'd have to ask for each individual concept. Show the clipboard would be full of seperate ideas but only if they ask permission!

Halo Abuse: There's something called the storyboard, then computer graphics, concept art, and perhaps a twist in the movie. The companies could make the comapny Bungie look horrible and perhaps the books and the game. They might abuse the movie enough to make everything bungie has worked for look bad.

Poor PLanning: Then there is poor planning. The comapny that's making the movie might as I explained above twist the storybaord and story. The basic Outlook or Insight. They might just rush into the making of the movie and might be destructive to the whole generation of Halo.

Then there's Discourtesy: That means the other comapny steals basic ideas from bungie but not exactly quite the same so that Bungie can't take them to jail. That means it would be arouge copy of halo but not quite the same, thus resulting destruction...in many directions...
so our only chance is to let Bungie and MIcrosoft do this, and hey let's do it digitally graphically! Imagine the awesome graphics. IF any of you have ever seen MIcrosofts intro movies to Age of Mythology...it's just simply amazing...and then bungie's storyboard and help would bring innovation and shear all gaming industries and movie industries to bits...

  • 08.27.2004 3:19 AM PDT
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OH MY GOSH I HAD SUCH A HARD TIME FINDING THIS!!!! Anyway, Light Knight proves a point I was going to make yesterday that I never got to cause I had to go to a Volley ball game, the gym, then sleep, oh and school!! That too.... Sorry I keep going off topic. ANYWAY, like Light Knight said, in the first book, The Fall of Reach, the Spartans will have to show their faces ALOT. Cause they don't have their armor yet. So our heros adolescence will have to be armor free. Which I hope isn't a problem........[yeah right]..........Because he looks different as a teen than as an adult. I hope.

  • 08.27.2004 4:56 AM PDT
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Everything I said in the old thread has been said here and everyone agrees. As long as Bungie and Microsoft have control ov everything then we should be all right. Thanks Celenon and mustafaibqal for the lists, everything on them is absolutly true.

[Edited on 8/27/2004 5:32:17 AM]

  • 08.27.2004 5:30 AM PDT
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If Hollywood would keep there filthy hands off this should be a spectacular movie!

  • 08.27.2004 5:40 AM PDT
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Yes this is great! we need all the people we can get on this forum. And moose, this forum actally matters. The last one didn't. Also, the the other forum was if the general public WANTED a Halo Movie. This one is compiling Ideas about a Halo movie. By the way. if you haven't voted fot the Halo movie, you really need to.

  • 08.27.2004 6:03 AM PDT
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Ropie and my fellow commrades...we aren' the favorite forum anymore. I mean what do we do. Has Bungie failed to recognize us as a forum anymore?

  • 08.27.2004 6:20 AM PDT
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Hi Celoen, Ropie, and Awful, and zog



[Edited on 8/27/2004 7:05:09 AM]

  • 08.27.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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A Halo movie would be great. As long as hollywood doesnt royally ---- it up.

  • 08.27.2004 10:50 AM PDT
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Ok guys, think about this. How likely is it that bungie will let a studio get ahold of this and actually make a summer blockbuster out of it, really? I think if the Halo community wants to see a halo movie anytime soon, we're gonna have to do it ourselves. That means, no big budget. Probably NO actors (how good of a free actor can you get?) and we'll have to ask for permission for any storylines that you want to borrow from. I think that if we started making it off of just Halo, bungie would be totally cool with that. I mean, hey, free advertising for them. the MC should be silent the entire movie with his armor on the whole time. Like any actor you know could do a good job at being the MC.

  • 08.27.2004 11:23 AM PDT
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Oh, and furthermore. I think that the whole thing should be CG. What good video game movies have you seen, name two and i'll rethink the whole live action thing, i can name a whole bunch that were pretty bad (Mario Bros., Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat ((and all of it's spinoffs)) ) The final fantasy movie was probably the best "movie" made from a video game franchise, even though the fanboys thought it sucked and it did bad at the box office. Square really dropped the ball on that one.

  • 08.27.2004 11:28 AM PDT
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ONe more thing, think of the sucess of Red vs Blue, and all that is is someone talking over the game itself. Think of how hard it would be to do a CG movie if we got the million plus Halo fans involved.

  • 08.27.2004 11:31 AM PDT
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As I'll say again...greeks created democracy...albert einstein dicovered the theory of e=mc squared...thomas alva edison created the light bulb...dean kamen created the segway...dean kamen also made the first insulin pump...bill gates brought innovation to computer software...and artificial intelligence which is not quite not completed yet...............................We're up next to bat.......we are going to inspire bungie to make the halo movie.....it shall involve the best graphic software from microsoft...hollywood will keep begging for the title of halo (wont get it bastards)...opps did i just cuss?....it will involve many reall people as in actors....just like what they've done for spiderman...Spiderman is a perfect example...tobey mcguire plays as spiderman but spiderman in the suit is digitally made...you guys know what'd I mean?

  • 08.27.2004 11:58 AM PDT
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**********!!!!!!!Possible Book Spoilers!!!!!!!**********


Yes, I agree that you shouldn't show the John's (The Master Chief) face, as the adult.... to an extent. I think that is only right to show his face as an adult after Bungie shows it, but if they, Hollywood, use the single part in Halo: The Flood, which is a great novel but doesn't compare to the other two, where the chief has to see the Major and he is told to leave the armor by his bunk they will have to. They have to include the chapters of Halo: The Fall of Reach where they are children, it is an essential part of the storyline, so there they will show John's face as a child and teenager. I have wanted a movie to be made since I read the first book. All we can do is hope that when it is made, because it will be made eventually, it will be as good as the books and follow the storyline of the book better than the cheap and chopped of versions of the HP books!

  • 08.27.2004 12:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: mustafaibqal
As I'll say again...greeks created democracy...albert einstein dicovered the theory of e=mc squared...thomas alva edison created the light bulb...dean kamen created the segway...dean kamen also made the first insulin pump...bill gates brought innovation to computer software...and artificial intelligence which is not quite not completed yet...............................We're up next to bat.......we are going to inspire bungie to make the halo movie.....it shall involve the best graphic software from microsoft...hollywood will keep begging for the title of halo (wont get it bastards)...opps did i just cuss?....it will involve many reall people as in actors....just like what they've done for spiderman...Spiderman is a perfect example...tobey mcguire plays as spiderman but spiderman in the suit is digitally made...you guys know what'd I mean?

Moose, You truly Kiick ass!! That is THE BEST ENTRY OF BOTH FORUMS THAT I HAVE EVER READ. I hope we can get this thing the most popular, all we need to get is like, 10 pages on 1 day and we will be the most popular. So help out guys, we need those looooooooong entries!!!!!!!!!!! keep it up, like you said moose, we are gonna win, we are gonna do it.

  • 08.27.2004 2:12 PM PDT
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and i have posted the news about this new forum on other forums as well, including that most popular one with the Halo hemet thing. we can do it!! WE just gotta try.

  • 08.27.2004 2:14 PM PDT
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But yeah I will do all that I can to make this forum the most popular. I don't have much to say right now, Other than I'll be damned if bungie takes this dream away from us. I was up till midnight my time getting this thing set up with Zog and Celenon. I WILL BE DAMED IF BUNGIE TAKES THIS AWAY FROM US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am aslo gonna start the new page so ya.

  • 08.27.2004 2:18 PM PDT
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I gotta keep doing entries i promised Celenon and Zog that i would keep this forum alive and running. So come on ppl lets here those entries.

  • 08.27.2004 2:19 PM PDT