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Hollywood Screenwriter On Halo, Spy Hunter Movies

4:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Australian-born Hollywood scribe Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) loves video games. He even loves writing movie script versions of them. More »
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Screenwriter Believes Halo Is “Our Generation’s Star Wars”

10:00AM Michael McWhertor | Stuart Beattie, responsible for big screen adaptations of Pirates of the Caribbean and G.I. Joe, is a big Halo fan, having “read every book, played every game, every graphic novel.” Proof? His unsolicited Halo: Fall of Reach screenplay in 2007. More »

Second Halo Movie Script Lives Long Enough To Generate Concept Art

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | That first Halo movie project? With Neil Blomkamp and Peter Jackson? So dead. Never. Being. Made. But, as we already know, Halo nerd Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, GI Joe) has stepped into the vacuum left by Jackson & co, and has written a script based on the events of the first Halo novel, Fall of Reach. That script’s apparently been kicking around Hollywood for a little while now, and has a few people very interested in the project, to the point where some concept art is being drawn up “as part of an eventual presentation to Microsoft”. Film site Latino Review claim to have gotten hold of some of this art, and will be posting it over the next few weeks. Which, provided our chains aren’t being yanked, should be a hoot. The first piece is a little…fantastical, though LR say it’s actually in the script/book. Click through for the full thing. More »