Spielberg wants Halo?

[QUOTE="kolkov01"][QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

... There are books for every video game.. The point being is they are not gonna base the movie off the books.. The series is popular because of the games NOT the books.

sSubZerOo

I am honestly annoyed that they are even considering a movie for this universe.. Halo universe is quite bland and generic, and the only reason why its even being looked at is its popularity of the games.sSubZerOo

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"][QUOTE="kolkov01"] Halo reach is being based off a book, Halo Wars was based off the books, I see no reason as to why the same can't be done to the movieangelkimne

[QUOTE="angelkimne"] Which is why Halo Wars did so badly and no one is hyping ODST or Reach?Deiuos

A Halo movie would fail miserably no matter who produced it, the only incentive to actually make a movie based on the game would be to con all those teen boys into paying to see it.

p2250

First of all you just contradicted your self.

Halo movie would fail, yet it would attract a lot of people to come watch it.?

yeah but sub zero said it would make money.

What is the incentive of making any movie?

Take one guess.

There is no business like show business.

What is your reasoning as to why you think it would fail?

because you personally think the story is bland?

Yet it delves in to religion, a time span over thousands of years and is good enough to span into other media

You think because the Halo universe can not stand with out Master Chief?

Yet Halo Wars (with a bad score here in Gamespot) yet it sold over a million as an console RTS, ODST expectations are high since E3, and Halo Reach is considered very pivotal to Halo fans.

You think Halo is generic?

yet has millions of fans and has been going strong for over close to 8 years

seriously I want to see some actual intelligent thought.

Apart from along the lines of "Oh, I won't watch it 'cause I personally hate Halo" you have nothing.

Resident Evil has spawn 3 movies, and who knows it may spawn another. not all game movies are complete bombs.

Do you actually believe that Microsoft will not put a big budget into this?

Seriously any haters out here can come up with proper facts and research apart from their own personal opinion.

Microsoft created 343 Industries dedicated to all things Halo now.

Steven Spielberg was impressed by the script for Halo Reach.

Peter Jackson's short live action Halo movie was given positive reception.

millions of Halo fans ARE excited for this and they are the initial group to watch it first opening week, that's the least.

Because the main cash cow is Master Chief, and the vast majority of the fan base is familiar with the games, not the books.. They are not gonna risk money basing it off a book with possibly using a unrelated character.. When the games have always been about Master Chief..sSubZerOo

Spielberg doesn't need Master Chief to have this movie sell. All he needs is his name printed on it.

By the way Saving Private Ryan is on TNT. :D

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Because the main cash cow is Master Chief, and the vast majority of the fan base is familiar with the games, not the books.. They are not gonna risk money basing it off a book with possibly using a unrelated character.. When the games have always been about Master Chief..Ross_the_B0SS

Spielberg doesn't need Master Chief to have this movie sell. All he needs is his name printed on it.

that's true and what happened to the arguement Cows used saying that it has the title "Halo" in it that it would sell.

There you go even some Cows and Halo haters arguments supports the success of Halo.

I swear to god if he puts Shia Labeouf in this movie...... X(

I think he would be good, I also think that Peter Jackson would be excellent.

I swear to god if he puts Shia Labeouf in this movie...... X(

VendettaRed07

Thats cool as long as is not Michael Bay i'm good and Spielburg would be a good choice, I just hope he does his research on the universe for the fans, somthing like Star-Trek would be cool so those who are filleed in on the universe can still enjoy the movie for what it is.

[QUOTE="p2250"]

A Halo movie would fail miserably no matter who produced it, the only incentive to actually make a movie based on the game would be to con all those teen boys into paying to see it.

First of all you just contradicted your self.

Halo movie would fail, yet it would attract a lot of people to come watch it.?

yeah but sub zero said it would make money.

What is the incentive of making any movie?

Take one guess.

There is no business like show business.

What is your reasoning as to why you think it would fail?

because you personally think the story is bland?

Yet it delves in to religion, a time span over thousands of years and is good enough to span into other media

You think because the Halo universe can not stand with out Master Chief?

Yet Halo Wars (with a bad score here in Gamespot) yet it sold over a million as an console RTS, ODST expectations are high since E3, and Halo Reach is considered very pivotal to Halo fans.

You think Halo is generic?

yet has millions of fans and has been going strong for over close to 8 years

seriously I want to see some actual intelligent thought.

Apart from along the lines of "Oh, I won't watch it 'cause I personally hate Halo" you have nothing.

Resident Evil has spawn 3 movies, and who knows it may spawn another. not all game movies are complete bombs.

Do you actually believe that Microsoft will not put a big budget into this?

Seriously any haters out here can come up with proper facts and research apart from their own personal opinion.

Microsoft created 343 Industries dedicated to all things Halo now.

Steven Spielberg was impressed by the script for Halo Reach.

Peter Jackson's short live action Halo movie was given positive reception.

millions of Halo fans ARE excited for this and they are the initial group to watch it first opening week, that's the least.

It would fail because it was already done before, it's called Power Rangers and it sucked.p2250

Did you just compare Halo to POWER RANGERS??? :lol::lol:

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Because the main cash cow is Master Chief, and the vast majority of the fan base is familiar with the games, not the books.. They are not gonna risk money basing it off a book with possibly using a unrelated character.. When the games have always been about Master Chief..Ross_the_B0SS

Spielberg doesn't need Master Chief to have this movie sell. All he needs is his name printed on it.

[QUOTE="Ross_the_B0SS"]

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]Because the main cash cow is Master Chief, and the vast majority of the fan base is familiar with the games, not the books.. They are not gonna risk money basing it off a book with possibly using a unrelated character.. When the games have always been about Master Chief..sSubZerOo

Spielberg doesn't need Master Chief to have this movie sell. All he needs is his name printed on it.

Marines that are similar to other Marines, how shocking!!:roll:

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

[QUOTE="Ross_the_B0SS"]

Spielberg doesn't need Master Chief to have this movie sell. All he needs is his name printed on it.

789shadow

Marines that are similar to other Marines, how shocking!!:roll:

Glad to see that the halo movie is back on track. The short film with Neill Blomkamp was amazing. It really shows the potential for the movie.

For people who missed the Halo short movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUcreY0X33k

[QUOTE="AdmiralBison"]

[QUOTE="p2250"]

A Halo movie would fail miserably no matter who produced it, the only incentive to actually make a movie based on the game would be to con all those teen boys into paying to see it.

p2250

First of all you just contradicted your self.

Halo movie would fail, yet it would attract a lot of people to come watch it.?

yeah but sub zero said it would make money.

What is the incentive of making any movie?

Take one guess.

There is no business like show business.

What is your reasoning as to why you think it would fail?

because you personally think the story is bland?

Yet it delves in to religion, a time span over thousands of years and is good enough to span into other media

You think because the Halo universe can not stand with out Master Chief?

Yet Halo Wars (with a bad score here in Gamespot) yet it sold over a million as an console RTS, ODST expectations are high since E3, and Halo Reach is considered very pivotal to Halo fans.

You think Halo is generic?

yet has millions of fans and has been going strong for over close to 8 years

seriously I want to see some actual intelligent thought.

Apart from along the lines of "Oh, I won't watch it 'cause I personally hate Halo" you have nothing.

Resident Evil has spawn 3 movies, and who knows it may spawn another. not all game movies are complete bombs.

Do you actually believe that Microsoft will not put a big budget into this?

Seriously any haters out here can come up with proper facts and research apart from their own personal opinion.

Microsoft created 343 Industries dedicated to all things Halo now.

Steven Spielberg was impressed by the script for Halo Reach.

Peter Jackson's short live action Halo movie was given positive reception.

millions of Halo fans ARE excited for this and they are the initial group to watch it first opening week, that's the least.

Power Rangers?

First of all from what I recall Power Rangers series started to suffer with cast drop outs and by the time the movie came out the series was in decline.

The Halo franchise is growing not declining, even to this day Halo 3 is still selling.

New ventures are pending.

Power Rangers isn't the only big franchise you can parlel Halo to.

How about Pokemon?

It spawned a movie and subsequently more movies were made.

Big franchises can crash because of a movie, and sometimes they can get even bigger because of a movie.

How about other game based movies?

Resident Evil has made 3 films and Resident Evil is still big.

How about all the other game based movies coming out?

Are you going to say they will fail too? or this only applies to Halo?

Yeah it's been done before you have to look at both sides of the coin.

Naysayers have been going about the demise of Halo for 8 years since its inception, you would think haters would have learnt by now that millions of people like Halo for many reasons. What's the difference with any other Halo media?

Novels, books, Machinima, Movies?

Clearly because its gonna be well reiceved after the last Indiana Jones.. I say again there is hardly anything unique about the setting that set it apart from other scifi universes. Infact some parts of teh settting seem to be a direct rip off.. Take a look at the marines they are the closest thing to a carbon copy from the marines in Aliens you can get..

sSubZerOo

You're kidding right? You are going to let one movie tarnish his reputation?

I guess we should ignore...

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade

Jaws

E.T.

Hook

The Terminal

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan

The Terminal

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Artificial Intelligence

Jurassic Park

Catch Me If You Can (One of my favorite movies)

and his most recent masterpiece: Munich

I didn't even list some of his other fantastic movies (these are just the ones I have seen...for now).

He has been nominated for around 10 oscars (not sure of the exact number) and won at least 2 I'm sure (Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan had to of won him something).

No but he made Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so let's not see his new movies...

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Clearly because its gonna be well reiceved after the last Indiana Jones.. I say again there is hardly anything unique about the setting that set it apart from other scifi universes. Infact some parts of teh settting seem to be a direct rip off.. Take a look at the marines they are the closest thing to a carbon copy from the marines in Aliens you can get..

Ross_the_B0SS

You're kidding right? You are going to let one movie tarnish his reputation?

I guess we should ignore...

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade

Jaws

E.T.

Hook

The Terminal

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan

The Terminal

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Artificial Intelligence

Jurassic Park

Catch Me If You Can (One of my favorite movies)

and his most recent masterpiece: Munich

I didn't even list some of his other fantastic movies (these are just the ones I have seen...for now).

He has been nominated for around 10 oscars (not sure of the exact number) and won at least 2 I'm sure (Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan had to of won him something).

No but he made Kingdom of the Crystal Skull so let's not see his new movies...

it doesn't matter. They know damn well that Steven Spielberg is a good director and often then not a movie that has him at the helm creates anticipation.

Not that many movie directors have a perfect streak, but overall he is a good director.

What I suspect is it doesn't matter the director Halo Haters will question anyone one involved with Halo.

the movie teaser and previews would along the lines of " A Steven Spielberg film... Halo" How many whoops and chears will we hear in the theatres?

People not familiar with Halo will no doubt peak a little interest and curiosity especially if they know Steven Spielberg will helm it.

Yes Halo does borrow a lot of elements from Aliens, but then so many other games and movies have-

How many movies involve war between humans and Aliens, with a third and common enemy to both being introduced, throwing in the complexities of religion and revelations of human origins??

nah, Halo's story is so generic that there is no way that ideas can be garnered from it to be made into novels.

Halo is only about Master chief who is faceless and shows little charisma, but then how can this generic character push Halo to such success? So maybe Halo is not just about Master chief.

Before Cows and Halo haters mention Halo Wars, lets use the REAL WORLD Halo Wars sold over a million for a niche RTS, and has overall high aggregate scores.

^ Are you talking to me? I'm not bashing the idea of a Halo movie made by Spielberg. I support it...

^ Are you talking to me? I'm not bashing the idea of a Halo movie made by Spielberg. I support it...

Ross_the_B0SS

Spielberg can make a good war movie, but chances are it will't be PG13 so meh.

^ Are you talking to me? I'm not bashing the idea of a Halo movie made by Spielberg. I support it...

Ross_the_B0SS

ha ha ha. I'm supporting and agreeing with you as well as throwing in some more points.

The Halo threads can get a bit chaotic for me:P

[QUOTE="Ross_the_B0SS"]

^ Are you talking to me? I'm not bashing the idea of a Halo movie made by Spielberg. I support it...

AdmiralBison

ha ha ha. I'm supporting and agreeing with you as well as throwing in some more points.

The Halo threads can get a bit chaotic for me:P

lol alright it's hard to tell sometimes on forums

Spielberg can make a good war movie, but chances are it will't be PG13 so meh.

fourseamer4

I don't trust Spielberg. Before Transformers 2 came out, he called it an amazing movie. After that I just don't trust him, but we'll see.

I don't trust Spielberg. Before Transformers 2 came out, he called it an amazing movie. After that I just don't trust him, but we'll see.

stepat201

[QUOTE="stepat201"]

I don't trust Spielberg. Before Transformers 2 came out, he called it an amazing movie. After that I just don't trust him, but we'll see.

Communistsheep

I hope so.

[QUOTE="Ross_the_B0SS"]

[QUOTE="Brownesque"]Hey, I've got an idea, how about we create an original plot with original characters. Oh, wait, who am I kidding, where is the $$$ in that?Communistsheep

Why not both? Spielberg does both...

To be honest, maybe Michael Bay might work on Halo, although he'll just turn Halo into a generic Action Summerblockbuster.hiphops_savior

[QUOTE="hiphops_savior"]To be honest, maybe Michael Bay might work on Halo, although he'll just turn Halo into a generic Action Summerblockbuster.MaxPower15

It will never work. You either have a film with a faceless guy named Master Chief and weaken the emotional impact or you don't have Master Chief at all (which was actually considered for a long time!!) biggest_loser

I hope Michael Bay doesn't direct it. He can make fun movies if you're just looking for some good action but I'd rather have a Halo movie be a bit more serious.

He would be only producing so meh. What was more shocking to me is that MS somehow managed to get Greg Bear to sign on writing Halo novels trilogy. How the hell did they convince the writer of this calibre to write novels based on games is a mystery to me

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

stepat201

Yeah they would be great too. This is Peter Jackson's new movie. It looks really interesting I think.

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

stepat201

I think it would be a huge waste of either one's talents to make a Halo movie to be honest.

[QUOTE="stepat201"]

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

AdrianWerner

I think it would be a huge waste of either one's talents to make a Halo movie to be honest.

Peter Jackson doesn't think so. He wanted to make a Halo movie.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

[QUOTE="stepat201"]

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

Ross_the_B0SS

I think it would be a huge waste of either one's talents to make a Halo movie to be honest.

Peter Jackson doesn't think so. He wanted to make a Halo movie.

he wanted to produce it, not direct it. And the fact that it didn't happen is for the best. District 9 is the direct result of a failure to make Halo movie and to be honest it will most likely be far better than any Halo movie ever could

AdrianWerner

My point still stands. Peter Jackson obviously doesn't think Halo is below his talents if he was interested in a Halo movie being made. And District 9 does look really good. But he didn't direct that either.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]he wanted to produce it, not direct it. And the fact that it didn't happen is for the best. District 9 is the direct result of a failure to make Halo movie and to be honest it will most likely be far better than any Halo movie ever could

Ross_the_B0SS

My point still stands. Peter Jackson obviously doesn't think Halo is below his talents if he was interested in a Halo movie being made. And District 9 does look really good. But he didn't direct that either.

[QUOTE="Ross_the_B0SS"]

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]he wanted to produce it, not direct it. And the fact that it didn't happen is for the best. District 9 is the direct result of a failure to make Halo movie and to be honest it will most likely be far better than any Halo movie ever could

AdrianWerner

[QUOTE="stepat201"]

Peter Jackson or James Cameron would be much better suited for this.

AdrianWerner

I think it would be a huge waste of either one's talents to make a Halo movie to be honest.