Everytime I post something about “Halo”, and if there’s even a hint of dying devotion and slobbering love for the game missing from the article, “Halo” gaming fanboys invariably hop on to bitch and moan and throw out ridiculous lines like, “If you haven’t read all the novels and played all the spin-off games and made your very own ‘Halo’ costume you shouldn’t be writing about ‘Halo’ cause you obviously don’t love it!!!” Or some such other totally moronic nonsense. Look, fanboys, it’s not that I don’t think your favoritest game in the whole wide world isn’t the best game ever created by man or God or the Great Unknown Master of the Universe, it’s just that, eh, I don’t slave myself to my XBox day in and day out playing the damn thing. You got that? Good. Now moving on.
So, according to Microsoft, the “Halo” movie is not quite dead yet. In an article about the upcoming “Halo: Reach” game, Variety writes about the fate of the movie adaptation:
Microsoft retains the film rights to any future “Halo” movies, and is still eager to produce a film when a budget and plotline can be worked out. It’s still developing scripts by [Alex] Garland, Stuart Beattie, D.B. Weiss and Josh Olson as potential blueprints.
“We’re still interested in making an excellent ‘Halo’ movie,” [Microsoft's "Halo" overseer Frank] O’Connor says. “We’ve created an awful lot of documentation and materials to support a feature film. We have a good idea of what kind of story we want to tell, but won’t move on it until there’s a great reason to do it. We’re in no particular hurry.”
Any film would likely serve as a standalone story and not be “a verbatim retelling of the game,” O’Connor says — something screenwriter Weiss also has hinted at in interviews, saying, “If you did do a 100% faithful version, 999 times out of 1,000 it would be a mess.”
Microsoft is also “intently watching” the TV landscape as a potential outlet for a “Halo” series.
So how about that, “Halo” fanboys? If not a movie, possibly a TV series? Who knows what lies ahead for “Halo”. Master Chief might know, but he’s not talking. Or showing his face.
