Since this topic deals with Halo the MOVIE and not Halo the GAME, I posted it here.
...wow. Not only that, but WETA Digital is onboard as well.
...wow. My hopes for a non-sucky video game movie are coming to fruition.
Thoughts?
Curses, and I just made a topic about this in the Gaming Academy...
Anyway, good news. GREAT news, in fact. Perhaps even tremendous. No, no, this is so amazing that it needs a whole new word to convey just how amazing it is... and that word is SCRUMTILESCIENT!
So yes, this news is indeed scrumtilescient.
I'm not thrilled. Despite the fact the the LOTR was all critically-accliamed and whatnot I hated those films for the same reason I despise the Harry Potter movie series- flashy special effects, while the storyline is trampled with pieces added, cut out or twisted to better appeal to mass markets. Peter Jackson in my opinion is too much a revisionist to be a good director for adaptions (now if this were an original movie with characters/locales we'd never heard of before, he'd be a better fit).
Ah well. I liked the games, and for now I'll stick with that and let those who want to see the movie version head to theaters.
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while the storyline is trampled with pieces added, cut out or twisted to better appeal to mass markets.
While I don't want to start a book vs movie arguement, I will point out that there's a reason they're referred to as 'adaptations'. Since you have to somehow put a book on a movie screen, things MUST be changed. There must be gains and there must be losses. Them's the breaks.
Also, the LOTR books had a terrible ending. Total anti-climax, far inferior to the end of the movies.
Plus, Halo as a whole is infinitely smaller than LOTR. Plus, LOTR is a humongous book; to encompass it all into a movie would require at least TEN separate LOTR films.
Wow.
I just had this perfect image in my head of Peter Jackson driving down 4th and Vine, pulling up to Uwe Boll's Grand Pontiac at a red light and flipping him off before driving away, howling with laughter.
Peter Jackson in my opinion is too much a revisionist to be a good director for adaptions (now if this were an original movie with characters/locales we'd never heard of before, he'd be a better fit).
Film is a completely different medium from print and games. To try to force it to be like them just to cater to fans of the original property is a recipe for disaster. If they wanted the LOTR movies to have the same quantity of depth and lore as the books, they'd have to go into a 20-minute narrated flashback whenever a new city, character, sword, horse, or grassy hillock popped up. Likewise, if they wanted the Halo movie to be as much like the game as possible, it'd be 10 hours long and consist almost exclusively of mindless action sequences, the occasional poorly-acted dramatic sequence, and my ever-present voice in the background constantly moaning about the piss-poor performance and how I can't save. If you want to make a movie out of an existing property, you have to be prepared to make some changes in order to make a good movie. Movies are supposed to be accessible, passive entertainment. They're not supposed to be boring.
Besides which, considering Peter Jackson is not the director but executive producer of the film, I don't think you have all that much to worry about in that respect.
The Halo Movie Companion is somewhat like the Halo 'bible', containing information on the Halo universe for the studio in charge of making Halo. Take a look!
Also, here's a sample page from the HMC. It talks about the Unggoy, aka the Grunts.
Interesting.
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*Decides that the Halo movie needs Hugo Weaving as a Prophet* =P
He's exec producer, well that's not as worrisome as director I suppose. And yeah, I realize the point of a movie is to appeal to as wide a demographic as possible but still I would've prefered a 10-hr long exposition-heavy miniseries to what we got. *shrugs* But that's me, and I'm very much in the minority. For those who liked Jackson's work, more power to you.
P.S. Cyc's "faithful" Halo movie adaption is hilarious. I'm tempted to suggest it as a QoTW.
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Likewise, if they wanted the Halo movie to be as much like the game as possible, it'd be 10 hours long and consist almost exclusively of mindless action sequences, the occasional poorly-acted dramatic sequence, and my ever-present voice in the background constantly moaning about the piss-poor performance and how I can't save.
Also dont forget about the background noise being louder than the freaking characters.
Edit: KILOPOST. a bit of a waste.
Also dont forget about the background noise being louder than the freaking characters.
I never had that problem. Sounds like something's wrong with your audio settings.
Nah I got it on the Xbox.
Its the only game I have that problem with. I dont know if anyone else has that problem with Xbox Halo. someone else nod with me...
Halo Movie should be cool and that was before Peter Jackson was involved.
I think a Red vs Blue movie would be a better investment, personally.
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I think a Red vs Blue movie would be a better investment, personally.
(dons Southern accent) Are you familiar with the turducken?
(bonus points to whomever gets the reference)
yes i do it everytime i go to visit the monkey house.
*did cheat becuase I never seen a Red V Blue because of stupid dial up*
Now for the 2 million point question:
Who is playing Master Chief?
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Besides which, considering Peter Jackson is not the director but executive producer of the film, I don't think you have all that much to worry about in that respect.
Let us please remeber that who is producing the darn film doesn't mean a thing.
Burton, after all, was producer on Batman Forever.
There's a massive article on movie adaptations of games in this month's Edge. Silent Hill sounds most promising, with Roger Avary involved with the screenplay and faithful-looking fogginess. But with me being such a wimp when it comes to horror, I won't be seeing it. 
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I think a Red vs Blue movie would be a better investment, personally.
I'm willing to bet there'll probably be a mini-movie prior to the actual movie with RvB involved, kinda like how Pixar always shows a short before the movie...
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...then again, maybe not. But they should!
BTW, you're staggeringly close to 7K.
RvB screened a special, exclusive episode at PAX before their hilarious 90-minute Q&A session. I think it's available on their website. Then Gus got hammered and, well...
Since I've never been able to play Halo properly, and I keep forgetting to play it online, I'll remain neutral in my opinions towards this film.
*shrugs*
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There's a massive article on movie adaptations of games in this month's Edge. Silent Hill sounds most promising, with Roger Avary involved with the screenplay and faithful-looking fogginess. But with me being such a wimp when it comes to horror, I won't be seeing it.
Well, the guy did co-write Pulp Fiction...
