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Posted by Dekko on Aug 12th 2009 01:24
Yo my little Adrian’s, ‘tis I Rocky Dekko your punchy, loveable guide to all things gaming and yes I’ve been absent and probably will be from here on out as my first book is coming out so I’ll be busy in the land of ‘writer’, ooooh.
If you feel like doing your Daddy Dekko a favor then you can buy the book, it’s called ‘A Plague Ship’ (by Grant Tarbard) and if you order it online from lulu.com it'll give me filthy lucre,
Anyway, on to the matter at hand and that is the ever revolving world of the Halo movie. The trouble with the Halo movie is we, the gamers and Microsoft and Bungie all have really high expectations, rightly so BUT when it comes to movie studios, well, they just want to bang one out. I’ve been through all of this before so won’t go over it again. However, I will let you know that good news may well be piling up at Halo Movie’s door. Here I’ll hand over to our regular film info buddies firstshowing.net to give you some interesting details which may ease those Halo movie fears.
“Whoa, wait, when did this happen?! Our friends at IESB are reporting a considerably exciting rumor that Steven Spielberg has taken over development on the Halo movie that Peter Jackson previously tried to make. They're saying they've confirmed this "with studio executives and our close ties to CAA" and that it's legit.
Let's not forget that Jackson and Spielberg are working together on Tintin, so they've probably had plenty of time to talk about bringing one of the greatest video games in history to the big screen. But why is Jackson letting Spielberg take over so easily? Is it because he doesn't have time with The Hobbit coming up?
Apparently Spielberg took a look at the script that Stuart Beattie had written in his free time (remember this concept art?) for a Halo movie titled Halo: Fall of Reach and was "blown away" by it. Other connections between Spielberg and Beattie are that they're both repped by the talent agency CAA. And then there's the little fact that Spielberg was a special guest during Microsoft's E3 presentation for their new Project Natal (watch that video) and still reps it on their website.
Oh yea and during that presentation, Spielberg even said he was a big gamer (if we can believe that). So all the pieces are there, maybe this does all make sense?
I'm one of those people who believes that a Halo movie could be (and deserves to be) as epic, exciting, and legendary as the game itself still is. And obviously it will take a lot of time and money to pull something like that off, as well as a creative team that is second to none.
Peter Jackson was the first big step in the right direction, but then all of that fell apart. Now if it's true that Spielberg has stepped up instead, he couldn't be a more acceptable alternative and one of only a few that I would trust handling a franchise like this. And with that, I hope all this turns out true, because I'd love to see a Spielberg Halo movie. What about you?”
So, what do you reckon True Believers?
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Dekko said: (Aug 12 2009 at 01:36:00 BST)
Hey folks, I apologise for the state of this piece but something appears to be wrong with the ED site. Oh dear.
Anyway, enjoy struggling to read it.
Frame Data said: (Aug 12 2009 at 15:07:00 BST)
gd look with the book!
Dekko said: (Aug 13 2009 at 22:15:37 BST)
Cheers Data, it's all going wrong at the mo but will hopefully be sorted soon. Why does nothing ever go easy?
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