Spending half of the film developing character and establishing backstory might be too much for your average moviegoer to sit through. Especially considering all the movie trailers would be filled with badass super soldiers (Spartans) and aliens, really hyping up that aspect of the film.

As a fan of the Halo series, it would be great to be able to better identify with Master Chief. However, I have no desire to see the face behind the helmet.

PhilipWPerna

The Spartan project was built to put down colonial insurrections, if memory serves.

/dork

ShineDog

@Sockatume: I'd buy that for a Dollar

NecronomiconUK

@Fishballs: Not really enough information to determine if he meant 'they first occur in the script,' or, 'they first occur to the world's characters'.

interim

@Fishballs: It was sped up after the covenant attacks, it was originally started before the covenant war.

jkh13

Wasn't the Spartan project started as a result of the Covenant attack?

Fishballs

I'm sure its fine and all, but I really wanted to see that Neill Blomkamp Halo movie. Sigh.

Lotharian

Hey, potc was a good movie, maybe if he made this, not only would it not be cancelled , but it might be good.

SonicJ

Fall Of Reach is a great book, this could potentially be a great movie if they get the right people for it.

mufasa

Sounds appealingly dark and RoboCop-esque. You have this innocent - a kid instead of Murphy in this case - whose humanity is taken away as they're turned into this faintly disturbing weapon, but they emerge as a hero in the end. It should appeal to any studio looking for a movie to go up against the new RoboCop production, too, so that boosts the chances of it actually being made.

Sockatume

Yes! Finally an Ender's Game Movie!

th3-1nf1d3l

I always knew that if a Halo movie was going to be made, it would be best if it were based on the Fall of Reach book, which this script clearly is.

Can't say I wouldn't want to see this made...Oh well.

QualityJeverage

This would ROCK! The Fall of Reach was such an entertaining read. It reminded me a lot of Orson Scott Card's excellent book "Ender's Game"

Dijkie1337

I just wet myself... doesn't smell like urine...

microhenry

I think this could work. Fall of Reach is a great book and I think its going to be the best setting for a Halo movie. If it does happen I would also like Eric Nylund to be on board just to watch over things to get it as close to the book as possable.

If he has read the books its clear he is a Halo fan and not just the random Hollywood guy saying, yea I play video games.

sargemat

Why isn't it made yet? Finally a fellow Halo FAN puts together what we all know should be a successful movie. Now lets just hope things can click when he presents this to the big wigs with the checkbooks.

Kloud

The movie would still suck.

dowingba

This...makes...sense??? Wow. Didn't see that one coming.

EloquentZen

Halo film; go for launch.

Ruiner13

Sounds good. I read Fall of Reach before ever playing Halo and loved it. 75 kids as they become Spartans, Of course it's not going to go over well with the Politically Correct crowd when the reach the point were they kill about half of them during the augmentation procedure which if I remember occured when the were about 15. But still 35 spartans kicking more ass than the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. Still would have loved to see the Peter Jackson Epic.

InsertBullets

A movie based on the book the Fall of Reach would be much better then a film based on the first game. The book is a great intro that describes each person, creature, and plot just as if it were new to you. I remember reading an article a while back that on the first Halo movie script some alterations were made so that not only Halo fanboys would understand what is going on. However, this way everyone starts on the same page. And besides, I bet Microsoft would love it since they could launch a new Halo game which ties into the Fall of Reach.

Quicksilver4648

It's difficult to give him much credit for Pirates of the Caribbean, since he came up with some characters and whatnot. But the central supernatural plot didn't even happen until Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio jumped on board and rewrote his draft. But I guess he set the framework up a little bit.

I'd still love to read this script.

SeannyD

yeah he didn't get kidnapped persay. The doc walked up to him and asked him if he'd like to be a soldier.

he went with them willingly.... without his parents knowledge of course...

sunshine06

I'm still not entirely convinced a Halo movie is a GOOD thing... We all know that many game movies have a tendency to be the retarded bastard cousin of the game itself. There have been a few gems though. I for one liked Resident Evil and Advent Children. I am also looking forward to Resident Evil Degeneration.

Cr1msonk1ng

The only thing that sucks? John being kidnapped. Never went that way in the book, and wouldn't that make him resentful of his captors?

Samuri9Fingers

If they make a Halo movie using the same CGI they used for the Halo 3 trailers I'm in.

Stryker412

@Lotharian: After watching his short films, yeah I was excited my self. Plus Alex Gardner wrote the script, and well it sounded pretty fantastic to me.

Crookie

@Samuri9Fingers:

He was taken in the book, John slightly remembers being injected and taken in the middle of the night, they are all scared but at 6 years old they are easily convinced and motivated (maybe a little brainwashed) by the notion that they will save the world.

The tell them from the start that they will not see there family again, but Dr. Halsey and the others are sure to be careful not to give to much info on how they were taken cause they are indeed concerned about them being resentful to them

Pretty much the most entertaining version of this movie they can use that currently exist, although I think it might be a slow start for people looking for more a more action packed film

ShogunAssassinX

Id love to see Fall of Reach on the screen but have the feeling that a lot of people would be pissed because of what they would have to cut/change to make it work on the big screen. I already have a mental picture of how everything goes in Fall of Reach and the movie would seem sub-par to me no matter what.

revolverx

@sunshine06: Isn't that the same as 'kidnapping?'

Cagny

Oh. Are we going for the first really good video game IP movie? Idk. Maybe Max Payne might be the first.

Cagny

still needs a little more "beef on the bones".

KREEPYKRAWLLY

@dowingba: Thanks, all-knowing oracle.

Captain Impulse

I think it might be better to make it about the first game and include some content from the book (which I haven't read) for background purposes.

iwearpants

Not as good of an idea as the Dragon Ball movie.

EvilTim102

I always thought they should turn Fall of Reach into the film, this guy is on the right track.

It gets over the whole problem of not being able to identify with a guy behind a helmet.

TeaBean

Sounds shit to be quiet honest, but there currently is a trend for packing in charecter arcs among the action in action films! I just have this feeling that the universe won't translate to film very well without seeming incoherent, and I say that as a non halo fan.
Don't get me wrong while the convent are massively generic, the UNSC or whatever come across almost as 40K lite, which in itself is no bad thing.

Oh, insertbullets it would only be a problem if your aiming yourfilm at the PG - PG 13 market don't you think?

aphexmalus

I think a movie based on the Fall of Reach book is a great idea. Still the best video game story I have ever read right along side the mass effect series.

wtf007

@ShineDog: A number of the early SPARTAN II missions were taking down rebel human colonies and pirates.

MisterSquared

@EvilTim102: be careful, your sarcasm is showing . . .

vanishing.hero

They seriously need to make this happen.

Kenny

@th3-1nf1d3l: Jivs!
What the hell are you doing on Kotaku!?

SlantSix

he did good with pirates

ZetaCrossfire

@Samuri9Fingers: Also, dont forget that the kids were replaced by clones so as not to raise suspicion, I think those clones were designed to die naturally at an early age too as well...I think, its been a while since I read the book.

Still, a movie based on Fall of Reach (complete with that space battle where the orbital shipyard acts as a massive shield) would rock.

DangerousDac

@Fishballs: The project was actually just completed before the Covenant attacked. The Spartan-II program was made to fight the rise in human pirate and rebellion activities, since all advisors in the military believed they would have a full-scale rebellion on their hands if drastic action wasn't taken.

Humanity had never made any contact with any alien species until the Covenant attacked, which was practically just after the Spartan's first mission against pirates.

Mini-Boss

I'm all for it, as long as Bungie still has total oversite.

Acebuckeye13

@DangerousDac: To the best of my knowledge, the clones dying was a side effect of cloning them so fast.

Acebuckeye13

It's based off the first book, which is the best of all of them.

finder39

@Samuri9Fingers: Yes. Clones were left in their place after they were kidnapped. This made the families not think to look for them. And after a few days, the clones began to die. Cloning a full human was complicated and they could only survive for a few weeks or months at most. They each began to have organ failures and the doctors couldn't save them.

Black_Ops_19

I just hope that the studio doesn't change too much. Someday they will realize that making a movie strictly for the fanbase of the IP will sell raelly well. If they try to make this movie for 'everyone' then it will suck (I'm looking at you Goerge Lucas). If they make this movie for the people that bought halo games at midnight releases, it will be awesome.

andrethejesus

This actually sounds good. But the characters/actors they hire are the ones who would make this movie soar, or make it plunge like a rock. Hopefully, they wouldn't go the "Well known actors route". Sometimes this move can actually be a good thing, I mean avoiding namebrand actors.

--Core--

A movie based on The Fall of Reach would be fantastic. I always thought it was a perfect entry point into the halo universe even more so then the games.

Sir_Crocidile

@dowingba: It would suck because.....? Oh that's it, I guess we should listen to everyone who has no reasons from now on.

Llost

Halo has one of the most generic and god awful stories out there, even for an FPS. I could care less who directs the movie or writes the script when the original source material is shit in the first place.

DontTouchMyDaughterYouFilthyGaijin

@th3-1nf1d3l:
Holy crap, you're right. That hadn't occurred to me.

Pantsman

"no master chief, you are a alien."

Then master chief was a alien.

Slothboy

Terrible idea: showing how John-117 became the MC would be too much like that movie Soldier which bombed.

IMO MC should be kept as it was in the games: a misterious guy that saves the day, and the movie itself should be about the war itself, not the people involved.

Seriously, I dont want another shit like transformers...

Shadowlayer

All I know is this has great potential. One scene I cannot wait for is when john is done with the augmentations and is in the gym and two ODST guys start some shit with him, and he nearly kills them both and he is just in his teens...what a great scene it will be. I just got chills...

VegasGeek

@Llost: haha!

icarusprime

@dowingba: And you're a "star" commenter?

nlangan

@th3-1nf1d3l:
An Ender's Game Movie? I thought they already made Harry Potter.... ( <--- Is on the side of O.S. Card)

Bluetom

Even if they did a movie based on the first game/book it would be pretty good. There is so much going on that doesn't focus on the Master Chief people don't realize. The humans from the Pillar of Autumn pretty much have a base of operations on the ring while MC is doing his things. I always wondered how the hell all these pelicans and such were bringing me men and supplies and where were the people we found being rescued to? But in the end, the books are always better.

Antros

@VegasGeek: Great potential to be what? Another generic sci-fi space marine movie? Oh, that's never been done like 10 million times before. I'll take the satire of Starship Troopers over the terribly bland and highly overrated Halo franchise storyline anyday.

Cuz nothing more screams "serious space action movie" than a guy in a green suit fighting space aliens that look like rejects from an 80s Jim Henson movie.

Sure Halo has great mutliplayer and that's ALL its ever been good for. Even Gears of War has a better storyline than Halo does and that's saying a LOT.

DontTouchMyDaughterYouFilthyGaijin

Go buy the book. It's not much more.

SanjushreeCabbidoe

@PhilipWPerna: It worked in Batman Begins and Iron Man. So long as they show all the cool training stuff and action the book had pre Spartans it should be really cool.

parad0x360

@QualityJeverage: I agree fall of reach is freaking great.

Rutty

Following the books like that is the only way I've ever thought that the movies could be good. I would love to see The Fall of Reach on the big screen.

WarlordPayne

@Black_Ops_19: A metabolic cascade failure. :(

Rendon

These kid actors better be the BEST damn kid actors out there. I don't want shitty acting. The story in the Halo games sucked, the books were much better, and if a movie was made, I want it to redefine sci-fi movies like Star Wars did.

hoopesk2