Peter Jackson to produce Halo movie! Hell yeah!

LOL I HATED HALO THEREFORE THIS MOVIE WILL BLOW

I swear to God, if Halo never existed as a game, I wonder how many of you would actually be excited by the movie.
 
<RJMC> said:
halo is a very famous game so sure there lots of propaganda everywhere

again, there is propaganda EVERYWHERE for EVERY FILM, im absolutely SURE that the Halo movie will have FAR from the highest amount of propaganda compared to other films (it wont come close to star wars or ANY DISNEY FILM as perfect examples)

<RJMC> said:
that dosent mean that will be good that just means that he will be working hard on it


frankly, the two go hand in hand. an excited crew is obviously going to produce a better product. who the **** else do you want????? spielberg? sorry bucko, be real. jackson as exec producer is INCREDIBLE, talent this big is unprecedented in films briding th3e gap between movies and games.

<RJMC> said:
also not everyone loves halo so if the movie is very simliar to the game I doubt it will be better

Regardless of whether you like halo, IT WAS A GAME....THIS IS A MOVIE, thats 2 (two) seperate mediums. yes, it will appeal more to gamers, but also sci-fi fans, or action fans, or fans of amazing special effects. because its not a game, there is unlmited flexibility with the plot and what you can do.

Halo 2 Hater said:
Uh...Why don't the make a Movie that has a stronger Story line? I swear. You can't make a Movie from a game based Purely on being a first person shooter. Its story line was. You are a one man army. Destroy these aliens. Blow up a giant Space ring with Grass on one side and A keyboard on the other. Seriously. Half Life 2 has the strongest original Story line i've ever seen. This Movie will be a box office Flunk after all the Halo fans have a good time seeing it 3 times and then its old. It wont have any appeal for anyone else besides them and the guys that like explosians and guns.

ugh...not much of a thinker are ya? frankly it is a really interesting concept behind the game, an vast array of potlines for the writers and crew to explore, as well as their own ideas and original plots. they have an entire universe of characters to work with, this is NOT going to be a straight up film version of the game. yes they will have a master chief, and yes, there will be halo's, but other than that it's gonna be a free form work. I promise you, the movie WONT flop (how could you even think that without having the urge to slap yourself for being an idiot?!?!?!). how do you know who it will appeal to? at this point we know jack shit where they will take the plot. just wait and see

why are all you clowns so damn pessimisstic in the face of such exciting news (peter friggin jackson! WETA! Halo!).
 
I don't understand it either, kmack. We go from the prospect of Uwe Boll to Peter Jackson and the most these people can say is "Oh, well it's still gonna suck".

Come on, we know that game-to-film conversions have never been that great. But if the involvement of Peter Jackson is any indication, this project is actually getting serious professional attention. This pessimism is really quite unwarranted.
 
I'm unsure about this, but mainly because I prefer to remain unsure about everything so that if the movie is bad I can smugly declare "I was right" and if it's good I'll be pleasantly surprised, which is always a good thing.
 
Halo 2 Hater said:
You are a one man army. Destroy these aliens.

You're right, its Gordon Free-- uh, I mean, Master Cheif. Yes.
 
Halo 2 Hater said:
Its story line was. You are a one man army. Destroy these aliens. Blow up a giant Space ring with Grass on one side and A keyboard on the other. Seriously. Half Life 2 has the strongest original Story line i've ever seen. This Movie will be a box office Flunk after all the Halo fans have a good time seeing it 3 times and then its old. It wont have any appeal for anyone else besides them and the guys that like explosians and guns.
Yeah, HL2's storyline was so much better.

It's story was:
You are a one-man army.
Destroy these aliens.
Blow up some random giant alien tower in the middle of a city.

Isn't it fun to draw parellels? :|

[For the record: I think both games have great stories.]
 
Stigmata said:
Yeah, HL2's storyline was so much better.

Yeah, it was :P

But the Halo series being the most over rated game in history, still, to an extent has a far better story than quite alot of other games can cite.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Nein. Driv3r.

Ahhhh but that doesn't have a strong fan base. I don't think. Driv3r ranks high in the worst sequels ever list though.
 
Halo is overrated in your opinion. Don't lie. It's a good game, you just don't like it. :p
 
Sulkdodds said:
Halo is overrated in your opinion. Don't lie. It's a good game, you just don't like it. :p

I didn't say I didn't like Halo/Halo 2, I said its very overrated. And it is! Its fun, but its average.
 
Average as compared to what though? What was the last decent story-driven console shooter? Perfect Dark? Even just being good makes it above average, and being great should net it more than that.
 
The problem with this film is that they are gonna portray the Covanant as the steriotypical evil-aliens and not show their POV at all, its almost garanteed.
 
You don't need to show the Covenant's PoV in my opinion, but what you do need to do is portray them as insane religious fanatics bent on the destruction of like, everything that's remotely blasphemous. Seeing as they stole the Covenant from Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas, they should steal the scene where one is captured and we learn alot about them by hearing the prisoner going on and on about how the humans are unfit to pronounce his name with their disgusting infidel tongue and so on and so forth.
 
Sulkdodds said:
You don't need to show the Covenant's PoV in my opinion, but what you do need to do is portray them as insane religious fanatics bent on the destruction of like, everything that's remotely blasphemous. Seeing as they stole the Covenant from Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas, they should steal the scene where one is captured and we learn alot about them by hearing the prisoner going on and on about how the humans are unfit to pronounce his name with their disgusting infidel tongue and so on and so forth.
Something like that might work. That reminds me of a thing that was bugging me in Halo 2. Does cartana translate the Elite-speek for the MC and in the one scene were the MC and the Arbitar are together are they both speeking English, both speeking Leet-speek or both talking in their own tongues?
 
I don't know, because I've only played the first few levels on singleplayer.
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Kmack said:
again, there is propaganda EVERYWHERE for EVERY FILM, im absolutely SURE that the Halo movie will have FAR from the highest amount of propaganda compared to other films (it wont come close to star wars or ANY DISNEY FILM as perfect examples)




frankly, the two go hand in hand. an excited crew is obviously going to produce a better product. who the **** else do you want????? spielberg? sorry bucko, be real. jackson as exec producer is INCREDIBLE, talent this big is unprecedented in films briding th3e gap between movies and games.



Regardless of whether you like halo, IT WAS A GAME....THIS IS A MOVIE, thats 2 (two) seperate mediums. yes, it will appeal more to gamers, but also sci-fi fans, or action fans, or fans of amazing special effects. because its not a game, there is unlmited flexibility with the plot and what you can do.



ugh...not much of a thinker are ya? frankly it is a really interesting concept behind the game, an vast array of potlines for the writers and crew to explore, as well as their own ideas and original plots. they have an entire universe of characters to work with, this is NOT going to be a straight up film version of the game. yes they will have a master chief, and yes, there will be halo's, but other than that it's gonna be a free form work. I promise you, the movie WONT flop (how could you even think that without having the urge to slap yourself for being an idiot?!?!?!). how do you know who it will appeal to? at this point we know jack shit where they will take the plot. just wait and see

why are all you clowns so damn pessimisstic in the face of such exciting news (peter friggin jackson! WETA! Halo!).

that it wont come close? I higly doubt it

and I still thinking that just cuz peter jackson is the producer it dosent mean it will be the best movie ever

EDIT:I bet that in a movie of a game you dont like ,is hapen the same ,you will be acting like me
 
Again, like Doom, its a case of forgetting that it may have a 'rubbish' storyline and just watching the entertainment. Its aout 4/5 quid to get into the cinema, and I gurantee that anyone that says THIS WIL SUK I AM NOT SEAING IT BOYCOTT FFTW will go and see it. I know If I had the chance to go out and watch a film with guns, action and explosions I'd take it up. Straight away. Although I can't see how anyone can predict it will have a rubbish storyline. What, you think Jackson and co (whoever it is directing, whatever) is going to throw in the corridor that repeats itself a couple of times in the first Halo? Yeah, 'cause that'll make the film really suck like it made the game one of the worst FPS's ever. :rolleyes:
 
*gets ready to dive behind couch, armed to the teeth with frying pans and wooden spoons for fear of being flamed*

crap game = crap movie.

if its anything like any other game - movie conversions, itll be a 'let down'.
 
Thats why we're excited...we think it might NOT be like the other conversions.
 
<RJMC> said:
and I still thinking that just cuz peter jackson is the producer it dosent mean it will be the best movie ever

Nobody has said such a thing.

ĐynastҰ said:
crap game = crap movie.

So what if a good movie spawns a crap game? Does that retroactively mean that the movie sucked? Your little law of equality is illogical. This is all dependent on the treatment of the material. Most game-to-movie adaptations have sucked because of easy rights to snag, quick bucks, or the banking on a successful franchise without any sort of competent professional involvement.
If Peter Jackson, a man who has more than proven his worth in the film industry, has taken an interest in this, then surely that shows something different? He's rich and successful. It's not like he needs the extra cash he'd surely get from the sheer title of this movie. This can only be interpreted as a genuine interest.
 
I liked the original halo. All up to around level 7. cuz from there you played the game backwards. Went through the assault level. Then to that cruiser again and then back to the Pillar of Autum. What I hated about Halo 2 was hm......The Crappy enviroments the cut scenes everywhere. And about the one man army Statement. I was right about that. How often do you have Marine help in Halo besides levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (yeah that didn't help me) but in 7 8 9 and 10 you are the one man army and you are the one man army right when the odds become insurmountable. HL2 you are a one man army but thats cuz you're Gordon Freeman. :E but you have actually Intelligent Squad dudes. Like the how they actually have variations on weapons and skin color. Besides the white marines the spanish marines and Johnson. Plus how Halo is a friggen Military based FPS set in the future they have their ranks pretty ****ed up. Seriously they have the 405th lead by 1 (one) Lieutenant and right after that they put a sergeant in control of an entire regiment. w/e all my babbling won't make anyone else's opinion different. Because thats what it is. A matter of Opinion. As hard as any of us halo bashers may try we are incapable of swaying their opinion.
 
Game mechanics translate **** all into film.
 
Halo 2 Hater said:
I liked the original halo. All up to around level 7. cuz from there you played the game backwards. Went through the assault level. Then to that cruiser again and then back to the Pillar of Autum. What I hated about Halo 2 was hm......The Crappy enviroments the cut scenes everywhere. And about the one man army Statement. I was right about that. How often do you have Marine help in Halo besides levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (yeah that didn't help me) but in 7 8 9 and 10 you are the one man army and you are the one man army right when the odds become insurmountable. HL2 you are a one man army but thats cuz you're Gordon Freeman. :E but you have actually Intelligent Squad dudes. Like the how they actually have variations on weapons and skin color. Besides the white marines the spanish marines and Johnson. Plus how Halo is a friggen Military based FPS set in the future they have their ranks pretty ****ed up. Seriously they have the 405th lead by 1 (one) Lieutenant and right after that they put a sergeant in control of an entire regiment. w/e all my babbling won't make anyone else's opinion different. Because thats what it is. A matter of Opinion. As hard as any of us halo bashers may try we are incapable of swaying their opinion.

Lets be realistic; who is more likely to be a one-man army? Battle harderned Master Cheif with his armour and years of training, or MIT science whiz Gordan Freeman?

Oh, and slating part of a game because they have some military squad ranks messed up? Yeah, well, this ain't Call of Duty, pal. Aliens, floating rings... the future, damnit. How'd you know ranks n' all that aren't different then?
 
And the fact that the situation is both games is usually totall FUBAR with aliens and zombies raining death upon everyone. I'm guessing its not hard to take command when everyone above you is dead.
 
Now that Peter Jackson is on board, I wonder if they'll do a prologue similar to LOTR to get the backstory?

The year is 2552. Planet Earth still exists, but overpopulation has forced many of her former residents to colonize other worlds. Faster-than-light travel is now a reality, and Earth's unified government, through the United Nations Space Command, has put its full weight behind the colonization effort; millions of humans now live on habitable planets in other solar systems. A keystone in humanity's colonization efforts is the planet Reach, an interstellar naval yard that builds colony ships for civilians and warships for the UNSC's armed forces. Conveniently close to Earth, Reach is also a hub of scientific and military activity.

Thirty-two years ago, contact with the outer colony Harvest was lost. A battlegroup sent to investigate was almost completely destroyed; only one badly damaged ship returned to Reach. Its crew told of a seemingly unstoppable alien warship that had effortlessly annihilated their forces.

This was humankind's first encounter with a group of aliens they eventually came to know as the Covenant, a collective of alien races united in their fanatical religious devotion. Covenant religious elders declared humanity an affront to the gods, and the Covenant warrior caste waged a holy war upon humanity with gruesome diligence.

After a series of crushing defeats and obliterated colonies, UNSC Admiral Preston Cole established the Cole Protocol: no vessel may inadvertently lead the Covenant to Earth. When forced to withdraw, ships must avoid Earth-bound vectors-even if that means jumping without proper navigational calculations. Vessels in danger of capture must self-destruct.

On Reach, a secret military project to create cyborg super-soldiers takes on newfound importance. The soldiers of the SPARTAN-II project rack up an impressive record against the Covenant in test deployments, but there are too few of them to turn the tide of the war.

Existing SPARTAN-II soldiers are recalled to Reach for further augmentation. The plan: board a Covenant vessel with the improved SPARTAN-IIs and learn the location of the Covenant home world. Two days before the mission begins, Covenant forces strike Reach and annihilate the colony. The Covenant are now on Earth's doorstep. One ship, the Pillar of Autumn, escapes with the last SPARTAN-II and makes a blind jump into deep space, hoping to lead the Covenant away from Earth.

Now the movie is likely going to be strapped for time if they try to include every level from the game into the film. Assuming the movie will follow the first game's storyline, which level omissions do you think are necessary?

Level 1: The Pillar of Autumn -> Escape the ship (Pillar of Autumn)
Level 2: Halo -> Find the missing squads on Halo
Level 3: The Truth and Reconciliation -> Rescue Keyes
Level 4: The Silent Cartographer -> Find the Cartographer thing
Level 5: Assault on the Control Room -> Get to the Control Room
Level 6: 343 Guilty Spark -> Flood introduction
Level 7: The Library -> Unnecessarily large library to get an index thing
Level 8: Two Betrayals -> Destroy the generator things
Level 9: Keyes -> Rescue Keyes...again (well sort of)
Level 10: The Maw -> Destroy Halo


Personally I think levels 2, 3, 7, and 8 we could do without. What do you guys think?
 
I think they're not going to use the game's exact story. Thats not to say they're going to change it, rather show it from a slightly different point of view. I do however hope that they don't try to cram too much into one movie. Its a big, complicated, and sweeping story that will suffer a lot if it isn't given enough time.
 
why are people talking about the game? and whether they liked that, ugh you have no idea at all about the creative processs behind filmmaking. its a movie, not a game. the only correlation is the universe it's set in and a few major plot elements. you wont play it you'll watch it.
 
Jackson would do a bang-up job of the fall of Reach I reckon. Yes, I know he's not directing, I'm just saying. I had the Battle of Minas Tirith flash in front of my eyes but only with Covenant and Marines. And spaceships and big explosions and.. yeah.
 
VictimOfScience said:
Yeah, so it'll be even more underwhelming than usual.

why would that be?

you discovered a way to predict the future??!??!?! holy crap! thats amazing! ill be sure to listen to what you are saying! its not just pessimistic drivel with no grounds in reality!

so sad....so sad

cynics are weakminded
 
Hey come on, I reckon it'll be good. Peter Jackson? Alex Garland? No wuckers.
 
TheBleeding said:
Lets be realistic; who is more likely to be a one-man army? Battle harderned Master Cheif with his armour and years of training, or MIT science whiz Gordan Freeman?

Oh, and slating part of a game because they have some military squad ranks messed up? Yeah, well, this ain't Call of Duty, pal. Aliens, floating rings... the future, damnit. How'd you know ranks n' all that aren't different then?

gordon freeman hav a armor too

also brain can be good in batle,cuz yes you hav all that weapons and stuff but you dont know how to use it correctly

so dont start whit the inmature thing of "masterchief hav armor nd guns and explosives and gordon freeman is a nerd lolololololol!!!!111"
 
yes i heard about that and all i have to say is...

HALO MOOOVIE! **** YEA! GONNA SAVE THE MUTHA ****IN WORLD! (/obvious team america reference :D)

it's going to be amazing
 
Masterchief hav armor nd guns and explosives and gordon freeman is a nerd lolololololol!!!!111
 
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