James Delahunty
25 Aug 2005 0:26
The developers of the infamous Halo game have finally confirmed that a Halo movie is being made by two major Hollywood studios, Universal Studios and Fox. Novelist Alex Garland (28 days later, The Beach) has witten the script. The main character in the movie will of course be Master Chief, the hero in the video game. The movie will not be released until summer 2007 and an issue date of a new version of Halo has not been announced.
The company responsible for the games, Bungie which is owned by Microsoft has worked out "all the kinks" with Hollywood studios and is now ready to begin work on the movie. Garland is delighted to be on the project and commented that playing Halo for him was an experience of "being in a movie". A director has not been chosen yet, but Bungie have made it clear that they expect the best director possible to get for this project.
They said they are looking for "someone who's as committed to the Halo universe as Peter Jackson was to Tolkien's Middle-Earth". The original Halo game sold more than 5 million copies and brought an excellent sequel released last year.
Source:
BBC News