Stale Popcorn

I know there’s probably grown-men crying into their breakfast cereals at this news right now but it hasn’t fucked with my day, so to speak! I’m not a big games guy, never played Halo and thought any attempt to watch a movie adaptation would be ruined with young males standing up and screaming at the screen “You bastards! You got the gun configuration wrong on the Master Chief’s second-in-command!” much like one in particular did – in one of my Top Five cinema-going moments in my entire life  – when I unfortunately went to see Street Fighter and saw a grown-man stand up, throw his drink at the screen and scream “How dare you do this? This isn’t Street Fighter for God’s sake!” I laughed for a week!

So anyway, once again I’m digressing, Neill Blomkamp – the director originally attached to a Halo movie – has been talking and that talk has revealed that the movie is officially no more:

“The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It’s not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren’t getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it’s a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it’s been dead, ever since then. I’ll be curious to see what happens”.

The film famously ran into trouble last year when Universal and Fox both balked at co-financing what would have been a very expensive movie – rumours suggested in the region of $200 million before a single shot was filmed or marketing laid on top!

For those, like me, not in the know allow me – with the power of the interweb – to explain that Halo tells of a war between human super soldiers and an alien race across multiple spacebound battles.

When the troubles with the studios were announced a year ago, Peter Jackson, who was going to produce the movie and whose Weta studios would have done much of the effects work, said the movie would still go into production at some stage. But it now seems, according to EmpireOnline, that Halo will remain on the small screen.

Posted on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 10:55 am under Movie News by Gazz.
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