After the Halo film adaptation was dropped by District 9‘s Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson it looked like it was never going to get made. When D9 arrived we got a taste of what we could have had. Then Blomkamp said he would never direct the film. We had rumors last year of Steven Spielberg interested in the project, but it was denied. Now we have our first real news in a while.
Franchise Development Director Frank O’Connor of Microsoft Game Studios spoke at the MI6 Conference in San Francisco last week (via IGN) and gave us a little hope:
“We’re going to make a movie when the time is right. We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic.”
30 Days of Night writer Stuart Beattie has penned a film adaptation of The Fall of Reach, one of the Halo books. It sounds like it will be a long way off before we see anything related to a film production. For now, you will have to get your fix with Halo: Reach, coming later this year to Xbox 360.
Are you still interested in a Halo movie?