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Subject: The Movie Trailer, Many Possibilities
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I was thinking the other day about the coolest trailer for the Halo movie, but before I start, don't say that this belongs in another forum, becaue there is none first of all, and this is about as close as we get to one.

Alright, since most movies actually have more than one trailer, I was tyhinking of several possibilities for what the trailers would have in them.

There are about 3 versions I came up with--

Cinematic Trailer -- This is the trailer that's a preview in the theaters, usually longer.

TV Trailer 1-- The trailer the shown on TV that would be one of the many possibilities.

TV Trailer 2-- The trailer shown on TV that would be the other possibility that I came up with.




Cinematic Trailer --

This trailer is preety long, about 3 or so minutes, I think that a mysterious theme should be key. It would start out exactly like the game.

[ All Black, then you hear engine sound from the beginning of the first game, camera fades in to the ship.]

[Goes to the bridge in the same manner in the game, same dialogue almost.]


[Captain Keyes] *sigh*, Cortana, did we lose them?

[Cortana] I think we know the answer to that question, the Covenant ships have always been faster.

[Captain Keyes] Hmmm, were are we? What is that?

[Cortana] I honestly have no idea. At light speed, my manuevering options were limited. As for the ring like structure. Origin unknown, purpose unknown.



Then, when she says, "purpose" There is a very scary flicker of a Flood form, like in those thriller trailers about ghost or demons or something, where there is this sublymonal flicker of the monster.


[Captain Keyes] I want everyone on station.

[Cortana] Everyone?

[Captian Keyes] Yes, everyone. [pause beteween the two words.]



You see ascene of reckage on a place similiar to the beginning of Halo the level.

[Cortana] Master Chief. Are you okay? We need to get out of here, as Captain Keyes' orders.

[Voice over of Steven Downes] Cortana, where are we?


The camera pans out to reveal a vvery large plateau of sorts, that eventually keeps panning out untill you see the Ring,



The rest of the entire thing I'm preety much not concerned about, a battle sequence that takes place aboard a Covenant ship would probably fit it. And I want to see this awesome close up of an elite barring all his teeth/appendages.


I would then like a puawse in the action. And you hear this really creepy growl, a Flood growl, and then you would hear from the Master Chief. "We have to get out of here."

Then you would hear the them song play, the monk chanting thing.


I don't really care about anything else I just realized, and I'm too lazy to type the rest of my ideas.

But one thing for one of the TV trailers, the ending would have no music, it would just be this

"Hello, I am 343 Guilty Sark, I am the Monitor of Installation 04."



So please comment, I might muster the strength to do something else. But yea.

  • 07.14.2006 3:44 PM PDT
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i like it

  • 07.14.2006 3:49 PM PDT
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I think we are wanting a remake of the game with no interactivity. Why would you want that? You have the game, just play it for the storyline again. If anything, they need to expand on the storyline to make the movie have some sort of purpose other than retelling the Halo story for the 3rd time.

  • 07.14.2006 3:55 PM PDT

I think the movie may be based on the story before the original Halo, like all of the back story, with the Spartan Programs.

  • 07.14.2006 3:56 PM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
I'd love to be a 10 year old and tell my mom I'm going on an adventure out into the world catching Pokemon, with her full support. Never mind the fact that there are rapists, criminals, and murders out there, or the fact that I may get killed by a Pokemon.

Luckily I have Pikachu.

I heard the Halo Movie might actually be a film adaption of "The Fall Of Reach" Novel

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This goes in "the Underground" it's "BUNGIE GENERAL" not Halo 3!!

  • 07.14.2006 4:00 PM PDT
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YEs, it does.

Anyways, on topic. If you read the Wiki article on the Halo movie, it actually has strong suggestions it will be based on The Fall of Reach.

  • 07.14.2006 4:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: UL71M4 G33K
YEs, it does.

Anyways, on topic. If you read the Wiki article on the Halo movie, it actually has strong suggestions it will be based on The Fall of Reach.


Yeah, i read something like that too... somewhere else though.. I think that it'll be on something else though.... i think it'll introduce us to the covies and end the human-Covenant war all in one movie... or.... MAYBE they'll make 3 movies? and we'll have Halo 3 THE MOVIE!! Woot!! that would be cool!!.

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Maybe not. The game's storyline should remain in the games. It is pointless to have 2 visual outlets of a story. The books can fill us in well.

  • 07.14.2006 4:04 PM PDT
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What i meant was the 3 movies could be based on the books... and if the fourth book ends the war... than they could find a way to squeaze all four of the books into 3 movies....

  • 07.14.2006 4:06 PM PDT
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thats hot

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I like to think of the books, as being almost Star Wars books, they help explain the backstory, but aren't crucial to understanding the movie, I think that--

3 games --3 movies

I think that the movies will be based on what everyone knows best, the games.

But please stop bringing up WiKi, they aren't official, and it's entirely based on what people send in.

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Well, i think a perfect cinematic trailer would simply go like this: Fades in from black, you see an unusual beutiful landscape. In the horizon you see two suns knowing that you are not on earth. The camara pans back to a reflection from a visor that then comes into view revealing the Master cheif up close on his face (helmet). Then the camara widens the range revealing 50 spartans in a line, all stiring at the bright clouds in the backround. All of a sudden you see hundreds of Phantoms fly through the clouds and soon a thousands of covenant ground troops coming closer. The Spartans are ready, no means of retreat. The fighting starts and you can see a spartan hop in the warthog with a gunner and someone in shotgun charging through enemy lines only to come to a hault by plasma fire, and explosions. You see that a spartan is stuck on his breast plate, protecting his brothers he runs into an area of covenant and is ripped apart by the blast. The war is bloody, and even though there is far more covenant then spartans its begining to show that the spartans are being cut down and losing the line. The scene goes to black. This is the Master cheif's dream, that he is finally awoken in the cyro chamber (whatever that bed that hes in in the beggining of halo) This would be a kick ass cinematic trailer, or even the beginning of the movie....Just think, it starts this way and its the Master Cheifs dream of when he was on Reach or something...and he wakes up from his dream

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Yea, that might work for a trailer, but I really want the Halo Movie to be about Halo Combat Evolved instead of Fall of Reach.

  • 07.14.2006 4:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: MissionHill
Yea, that might work for a trailer, but I really want the Halo Movie to be about Halo Combat Evolved instead of Fall of Reach.


If the movie ends up going into a trilogy, than the second movie would be about what happened on Halo.

  • 07.14.2006 4:45 PM PDT

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I think the movie should be a mix of the two. Just explain the original mission the PoA was on (to reach High Charity, and capture one of the Prophets) show the Spartans gearing up..then them splitting up and Red Team going down to Reach, and dropping out of the Pelican..and also show Blue Team's mission, and Linda getting put into Cryo..James knocked off the station, then the PoA jumps..fade to black.

Show the time stamps (August 30-Sept19th)

Then play through Halo, and als show some of the things that happened at Alpha Base..

Don't end with the cliffhanger after the Maw, but end it right when Cortana jumps out of system in the Ascendant Justice..



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  • 07.14.2006 4:47 PM PDT
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Mission Hill. What i was trying to say there was that This is the Master Cheifs dream remembering what happened at reach just for some backround information, then he wakes up in the sleeping chamber on the POA.

  • 07.14.2006 4:50 PM PDT
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if they dont make 3 movies and they try to pull a "series of unfortunate events" on us, there will be riots in the streets, all hell will break loose

  • 07.14.2006 5:07 PM PDT