Tag archive: Fran Walsh

Back in 2005, Microsoft inked a deal with partners Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh to create a film based on the company's Halo gaming franchise—and later expanded the deal to include an installment of the Halo game plus a separate gaming title. Over the years, absolutely nothing has come out of those high-profile deals: the Halo movie was apparently scuttled by studio infighting. Although Jackson's partnership with director… Read More

Barely a week after Universal and Fox pulled out of a co-financing and distribution deal for a movie based on Microsoft's Halo video game franchise, word comes from producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh's WingNut Films that the studio and Microsoft have jointly agreed to suspend work on a Halo feature film. A statement released by WingNut Films reads in part: At this time Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, along with their partner,… Read More

Looks like Master Chief still has to overcome some fiscal enemies before he gets to kick some alien butt on the big screen. A little over a year ago, Microsoft inked a deal to bring its Halo video game franchise to the big screen, with Universal Pictures handling the actual production of the movie as well as its domestic distribution, while international distribution would be handled by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie then brought on… Read More

Microsoft announced yesterday that it has entered a partnership with Oscar-winning husband-and-wife team Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh to create the third installment of the Halo Xbox video game franchise, as well as an entirely original game. Director, writer, and producer Jackson and screenwriter Walsh brought the enormously successful Lord of the Rings trilogy and (more recently) King Kong to movie screens and innumerable DVD players… Read More

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… Read More