Bones, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio4 C, and Toei Animation.
The creative director overseeing the production is Shinji Aramaki, director of Appleseed and Appleseed Ex Machina. Microsoft has also roped in Warner Bros. to distribute Halo Legends on DVD and via digital platforms early next year.
Video game companies move onto Hollywood’s turf [Los Angeles Times]
APK
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:05 PMYou got to be fucking kidding right?
NewGuy
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:53 PMlol, obviously not. It was only time until MS begins to milk the halo franchise for all its worth.
LinkageAX
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:55 PMF*** Off! This is B/S, Wtf are these F***wits on?
Just another way to milk a F***ing S***ty Franchise.
Shoitaan
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:25 AMWow.. what a well thought out and level headed reaction.
legless
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:09 PMIm no halo fan, but should we be excited or fearful?
APK
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:40 PMI say fearful..
though, that just me as I’m kinda of a Halo hater in the eyes of many…
XeroWolfe
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:47 PMBones man! freaking bones!!!
Blah2
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:41 PMStudio Bones is probably the greatest animation studio there is, I wouldn’t be too worried.
(Production IG and Toei aren’t too bad either)
Pubbie
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:39 PMFOR THE FIRST TIME EVER:
ANIME THAT IS ACTUALLY ANIMATED.
APK
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 7:37 PMEr… sorry to burst your bubble, but that has happened many times before.
Simeon
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 7:04 PM^^^
Are Halo fans all really like this?
What the hell?!
plmko
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:29 PMHalo has a story worth animating?
Blah2
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:40 PMWow, bones is part of it.
Lazyaza
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:03 PMI’m sure the animation quality will be top notch considering the studios involved with this but the halo franchise? bleh seems like a waste of time and effort to me.
Shawn
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:28 PMTHIS SOUNDS AWESOME….im tooo old to be psyched about this
Doug
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:40 PMWouldn’t it be awesome if the got Studio Ghibli to do the anime?
Blah2
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:51 AMNo, Studio Ghibi is a little kids animation studio. Bones would be way better for something like this.
Shoitaan
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM“Little kids animation studio” was an stupid comment but its true that Ghibli wouldn’t touch it. They like their anime’s to typically have some sort of underlying theme about family or environmental sustainability etc etc They wouldn’t do this. And their art style is a little too colourful for the Halo universe anyway.
Blah2
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 2:52 PMI would say Disney animation’s main audience is children, as is studio Ghibli’s.
Sorry if I deeply offended your love for studio Ghibli, it was not my intention.
LordLeckie
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:50 PMI think we could sum this up in one effective line.
lolwut.
Hmm
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 1:27 AMI’m a huge halo fan and even I think this is a bit much.
Cat Tactics
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:44 AMOH NO! WHY DO THIS! IT SO BAD! HALO IZ SHIT!
keep it coming people
Adam D
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 12:07 PMThis reminds me of the batman Gotham knight dvd. That was a collection of different studios doing shorts. Making an anime i probably microsofts idea of a good way to break into the Japanese marker further.
Robert Sakaluk
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 12:36 PMI’d prefer the Halo movie to go ahead but an Animatrix/Gotham Knight treatment could be cool too. They’ve lined up the best sci fi anime studios for it that’s for sure.
Still can’t understand why the Halo story hate, Bungie put more back story into all of their games than any other studio I can think of.
anony
Monday, July 27, 2009 at 12:27 AMIt would be cooler if Gainax were to be apart of this