Microsoft Releases Halo Movie Details

October 4, 2005 By Ian Bell

Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Microsoft have released further details about the new Halo movie planned for release in summer 2007.

In what has us even more pumped for the new Halo movie is today’s announcement that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will serve as the executive producers of the new Halo film based on the popularvideo game for the Microsoft Xbox. Peter Jackson is known for his Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming King Kong movies. Jackson’s award-winning companies Weta Digital Ltd.and Weta Workshop Ltd. will provide creatures, miniatures and visual effects for the production. Jackson will not be directing the movie, although his presence on the set is sure to leave apositive impact. Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce HALO with Peter Schlessel. After Fox, led by President Hutch Parker and Universal, led by Production President DonnaLangley, acquired the feature film rights to HALO, the studios worked in conjunction with Schlessel in reaching out to a number of producers who auditioned for Microsoft/Bungie. The filmis currently targeted for a Summer 2007 worldwide release. Universal will handle domestic distribution of the film, and Fox will handle the international release. HALO will be shotin its entirety in Wellington, New Zealand and will make use of the full range of Jackson’s state-of-the-art production and post-production facilities, including Weta Digital Ltd., WetaWorkshop Ltd., Stone Street Studios and Park Road Post. “As a gaming fan, I’m excited to bring HALO‘s premise, action and settings to the screen with all the specificity andreality today’s technology can provide,” said Jackson. “Fran and I are intrigued by the unique challenges this project offers, and we’re delighted to be working againwith our friends at Universal, and with our new ones at Fox and Microsoft. I’m a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen.”

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Jesse at 12:02am 22nd October 2005 I've seen Doom and was very pleased with it. If they could do as good of a job with Halo, or better, it would be awesome!
slimjim at 11:41am 20th October 2005 Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Intriging
Q Dawg at 11:42am 12th October 2005 I agree that there seems to be a bad history for movies based on video games in the past, but at the same time we must remember that Halo isn't any old video game. If there is a good director and a solid cast on the set, not to mention the help of Peter Jackson and Weta Digital, the Halo movie could be a huge hit.
Master Cheif at 11:52pm 8th October 2005 Halo looks to be taken seriously on the cinema front. Microsoft wouldn't want to lose money in a killer franchise. With a good director this movie will throw down every video game movie predicessor.
TechFreak at 11:45am 6th October 2005 Well hopefully with Peter Jackson being involved, it will turn out to be a futuristic Lord of the Rings. I could get into that for sure.
B1indSpot at 11:32am 6th October 2005 Sounds good, but I'm worried that it will overall hurt the image that bungie layed out when it released the first two Halos. I believe that this should be scraped due to the image more than likely will be hurt due to the past history of games turned movies. Watch and learn of the flop of the Movie version of Doom.
Luis Escalante at 11:05am 6th October 2005 I think it's going be a lot better than Doom.
PHi at 12:18am 6th October 2005 Halo the movie?? you gotta be kidding? seems like a bad idea... haven't seen any good game turn movie that leave a strong impression. Movie gets too hyped and falls short of what ppl expect. plus good luck with the character developement...
Ian Bell and Dan Gaul at 11:46am 4th October 2005 Yeah I think the new Doom movie will be a flop. I wish that Peter Jackson would direct Halo though, but at least he is a part of it which should help with production value.
fungku at 11:07am 4th October 2005 Sweet!! I bet this will be a good movie.

I dont have my hopes to high on the new Doom movie coming out with The Rock as the lead role.