My thoughts on…the death of the Halo movie
Before I begin, let me apologize for my near week long absence. A killer combination of work and blogger’s block crippled my regular blogging routine. But things are back to normal, and so is this blog.
The world is feeling Halo 3 fever right now. The game has made a whopping $300 million in its first week. Seems like there are plenty fanboys eager to see the ending of Master Chief’s epic adventure. I feel that I should give the Halo 3 release its own post, but it doesn’t interest me all that much. I recognize the awesomeness of the game, but I’m not that familiar with Halo. I played it once, and that was when I borrowed a game from a kid at a game shop. Plus I wasn’t very good. But I digress.
However, in the midst of all this Halo hullabaloo, a Halo spinoff has gotten the proverbial Plasma Sword. The highly anticipated Halo movie, that was set for release next year, is officially dead. To quote filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, “the film is entirely dead.” The falling apart of the movie in 2006 was a dead giveaway, but fans were still hoping that things would be ironed out. But it looks like 20th Century Fox and Universal’s bickering doomed the project. This is very disappointing. I’m not much of a Halo fan, but I would loved to have seen it on the big screen. All the fun of Halo, without the steep learning curve of driving a Warthog. But I guess that’s all a fanboy’s dream now. But who knows? Hollywood’s running out of ideas. Why else would they make Taxi? And Blonkamp says there may be hope for it yet, just not in the foreseeable future. Let’s hope they come to their senses and pick up the project before the Halo hype dies.
