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The Halo Movie Failed Because Microsoft Didn’t Understand Hollywood

It had a script. It had the backing of two major film studios. It had the support of Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. Everything seemed like it was clicking into place for the Halo movie before it abruptly collapsed, and you can blame Microsoft for that, according to writer Jamie Russell.


November 23, 2010
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Microsoft: There Will Be A Halo Movie

At the Future of Television East conference last week, Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor sat on a panel that focused on the grail of transmedia.


September 6, 2010
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Halo Movie Lives On, Well, Sorta

In August 2009, Microsoft said that its plans for a big-screen version of Halo were “on hold”. This past spring, Microsoft expressed interest in doing a Halo flick “when the time is right”. Is the time right yet?


July 29, 2009

Jackson Explains How Fate Killed Halo And Gave Birth To District 9

SAN DIEGO, California – Peter Jackson has been a gamer his entire life, so when Microsoft hired him to produce the movie version of Halo, there was genuine excitement in the air.


September 3, 2008
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More Halo Movie Concept Art… Endless!

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl writer Stuart Beattie loves Halo — so much so that he wrote a spec script based on Eric Nylund’s book, Halo: The Fall of Reach. This isn’t connected to the Peter Jackson Halo film project, which has since been put on ice. Beattie wrote the script between film projects on the hopes that someone somewhere will bring it to the silver screen. So far, it’s apparently still only a spec, but making the studio rounds in Hollywood.

Hit the jump for the full art. It’s purply.