HALO director named! Anyone heard of Neill Blomkamp?!

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An official statement from Microsoft has revealed that the motion picture based on Bungie's Halo franchise will be helmed by Neill Blomkamp, a short film and commercial director making his feature film debut with the movie.

A native of South Africa, Blomkamp directed the acclaimed 2005 short film, Alive in Joburg, that depicted a future in which extraterrestrials have become refugees. Last year, Blomkamp also received three Clio Awards and a Visual Effects Society Award for his television commercial Citroen-Alive with Technology.
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Story.

Never seen his stuff, but I think it might be a good thing that an up-and-coming young guy no one's ever heard of gets involved with this and maybe turn it into soemthing really special!

Disclaimer: I dislike the Halo games and am pretty sure the movie will be bad, but this might at least make it interesting. Not that many people had heard of Peter Jackson either....
 
He's does alot of 3D animation, according to IMDB. Smallville, Dark Angel, Stargate SG-1, etc. I don't know what to think to be honest. I don't really know who I was expecting, either, so whatever. Cool.
 
Before you guys go any further, its HALO, the, Movie... so you know its gonna blow.
 
He got a good comment on IMDB about how he should be the director for the Transformers movie in December 2005. Might be a good choice.
 
brink's said:
Before you guys go any further, its HALO, the, Movie... so you know its gonna blow.
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to be honest, i do not understand why people hate halo around here. i think it was tremendously overrated and overhyped, but it was a lot of fun the first time. not nearly as good as the half life series, but its a solid run and gun shooter IMO.
 
I enjoyed Halo, i just don't see how the film will be good when the main premise of the game is kill to anything that moves. Kind of a weak concept for a movie, how are they going to stretch that into 90 minutes?
 
Doom did it......wait i see your point
 
mastag said:
to be honest, i do not understand why people hate halo around here. i think it was tremendously overrated and overhyped, but it was a lot of fun the first time. not nearly as good as the half life series, but its a solid run and gun shooter IMO.
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I love Halo, but face it, a game like Halo into an action film is going to be a mindless action film with ugly CGI aliens.
 
mastag said:
to be honest, i do not understand why people hate halo around here. i think it was tremendously overrated and overhyped, but it was a lot of fun the first time. not nearly as good as the half life series, but its a solid run and gun shooter IMO.
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I hate it because its both utterly dull and highly successful. Like Big Brother.

John Who had better do a good job with the Metroid movie. (If he actually gets round to it)
 
brink's said:
I enjoyed Halo, i just don't see how the film will be good when the main premise of the game is kill to anything that moves. Kind of a weak concept for a movie, how are they going to stretch that into 90 minutes?
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The plot of Halo was to stop the Covanent from using the giant ring as a weapon, or something to that extent. There should be enough there to make a decent movie.

As for choosing an inexperienced director, this could be good and bad.
GOOD: This is the guy's first major project, so he'll be completely devoted to doing a good job and less likely to use it as a cash in.
BAD: This is the guy's first major project, so he'll be more susceptible to making mistakes.
 
Halo's story was hardly ground-breaking. It mostly fell into kill a lot of Alien's that are trying to destroy mankind.

It certainly wasn't as complex and interesting as Silent Hill, and that movie adaptation of the game was questionable. Though I enjoyed it.
 
mortiz said:
Halo's story was hardly ground-breaking. It mostly feel into kill a lot of Alien's that are trying to destroy mankind.
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The emphasis perhaps on Aliens. I think it's a major stumbling block for most computer game to movie conversions. The games are either drenched in Alien/Aliens influences, or else the directors go out of their way to put the influences in! Halo's flood aren't exactly the most inspired variation on "thing attaches itself to people and changes them into stuff".
 
Never got into Halo, too sci-fi for me, the "feel" to it wasn't my type of thing.

Movie remakes of games = fail. They even fail before release.
 
I think it could be good but its a long shot. I will be willing to buy a ticket, but I won't get too excited.

P.S. the reason people around here dislike Halo is that it, for some reason, is thought that if someone likes Halo or Half Life, they cannot like the other. (Plus this is halflife2.net.) This only applies to some people, not me or most of my friends, but two of them can't stop fighting about who is better: Master Chief or Gordon Freeman.
 
According to the source in the OP, he directed the Alive With Technology advert for citroen. Its really cool, it has a robot doing funky dancing and everything.
 
The game was alright, (though quite boring after the first 2 hours IMO) will still buy the third just to see, but proboaly won't watch the film, at least in the cinema. I'll wait for it to go retail then rent it out.
 
I'll watch it if my friends invite me out to see it. Otherwise, no.
 
Lol, Halo's story was absolute shite. May as well make a movie based on Prey. :LOL:
 
You naysaying goat-suckers can continue to fling your poo.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic.
 
Only japanese games make good movies. And only very rarely.

The two "best" so far have been Spirits Within and Silent Hill.
 
I'm cautiously optimistic about this movie. Not because I think Halo is a great game (screw you guys :p), but because Neill Blomkamp is showing some real promise.

An advert most of us in the UK have seen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CG72PzKhrmA

Some very short movies:

Alive in Joberg - http://youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8 (love the funny robot guy with the gravity gun arms :) )

Tetra Vaal - http://analogik.com/multimedia/video/tetra-vaal.mov

Yellow - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jmd8BDiB-qU

Now let's see what he can do with a decent budget.
 
I've read the novels,played the game-can't wait for the movie is going to kick *** because il loved the game(Halo:Combat Evolved,creepy Flood)is really a fine game.
 
The short movies by him are exellent, he has a lot of promise but his talent seems limited to his "documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique" as mentioned in the xbox link. A good director needs to have mastered a lot of different technieks, so he really uses the most appropriate for the scene or story in general.
 
"Quint: Which do you prefer, HALO or HALO 2?

Neill Blomkamp: From a playing perspective I like both. But from a conceptual and story perspective I prefer Halo 1."

Good man. He's on the right track.
 
Halo sucks, nuff said.
If you disagree, you have a small penis.
 
Okay, the Halo bashing was kind of cute and funny, the first several times but seriously, stfu now, lamers. /rolls eyes

His short films and the ads look pretty good so hopefully he can pull it off.
 
So far we have a very promising director (who seems to know what he's doing), a stupendously amazing digital effects/design department, and the guiding hand of Peter Jackson (a big Halo fan apparently - so he wont want to mess this one up).

I'd guess that its going to be very very impressive visually. Now they just need to draw a decent script and story out of the source material, and i think we may be onto a winner...
 
Why do they have to make this movie based on the game? It would be a much more interesting movie if it was based on the "Ring World" SF books which is where Halo's story was inspired fro in the first place.
 
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