Demoncarnotaur
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So, is this different than the Halo TV show by Spielberg?
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RUMOR:Feat. length HALO project produced by Ridley Scott & written by Paul Scheuring?
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So, is this different than the Halo TV show by Spielberg?
TacticalFox88
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No.
No.
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No.
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Is this reliable in any way? I can't see Fantastic Four filming when last we heard, there still wasn't a script, and they don't have any casting done yet. And I really doubt something as massive as a live action Halo project with Ridley Scott attached in any sort of capacity would be casually mentioned via Twitter like this.
Demoncarnotaur
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When it comes to projects and start dates they tend to be fairly reliable. Its not a cheap subscription by any means.
Thursday War
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Halo as in the game?
Count me in.
Count me in.
Hmm, if that's the case, it appears Fox is going to push out something just to keep the license. I'm still skeptical about the Halo project. Surely we would have heard something by now if Ridley Scott was attached.
The IP is still popular. It might not be at its Halo 2 launch hype levels, but few games ever reach that point.
Production Weekly is reliable, but yeah FF shooting in two months without any cast attached so far seems really strange.
Demoncarnotaur
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Well, Halo 4's previous Art Director Kenneth Scott is still involved with 343, yet moved to California.. Perhaps he will wind up involved with this project?
killer rin
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TheGravemind
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plis god have mercy, after prometheus i do not want to see ridley scott producing another sci-fi movie for at least 7 years
I don't think these producing credits take up any of Ridley's time, he has his name attached to a half dozen projects every year on top of the things he directs himself.
maybe frankie can hold his hand
Inferno313
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Scott produces a ton of things, doesn't mean that he'll be the director if this thing turns out to be real.
Also, dude's been very hit or miss for the last decade, I can name a hundred people better suited for a Halo film than him.
Yeah I mean he's producer on The Good Wife (best show on TV) and that fucking movie version of the Coca Cola polar bears.
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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Master Chief vs. Alien undeniably confirmed.
Someone get Paul Verhoeven on the phone.
Oops, misread. I thought he was directing. Yea he's probably only involved in name only.
TheGravemind
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BadAss2961
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And Marvel's doing FF again? Damn, they're really determined to pump out everything.
20th Century Fox. They own the license right now, and have been trying to get it off the ground to do some universe with their X-Men movies. But if they don't start filming by this fall, Marvel gets the rights back.
AuthenticM
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Yes !
Femmeworth
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Scott would be perfect these days. Gorgeous visuals with a braindead narrative.
BadAss2961
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Forgot about that. I don't think Fantastic Four is worth anything on film. Might as well just let Marvel have it back, like Daredevil.
childplease
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I really don't get the Prometheus hate.
I thought the movie was terrific even if the pacing was a bit slow.
The engineers were the coolest thing I have seen in Sci fi in years.
I thought the movie was terrific even if the pacing was a bit slow.
The engineers were the coolest thing I have seen in Sci fi in years.
rokkerkory
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Hmmmm yeas please?
So you just tuned out the plot and the actions of the characters? Nice skill to have.
shinobi602
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Shit
blazinglazers
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"Feature length digital" = a web series which gets re-packaged as a feature ala Forward Unto Dawn.
"Produced by Ridley Scott" = it's directed by someone repped @ BlackDog / RSA.
"Produced by Ridley Scott" = it's directed by someone repped @ BlackDog / RSA.
Anticitizen One
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Microsoft should have went with the Halo Prequel movie directed by District 9 dude with a script by Alex Garland loosely based on Fall of Reach. It would have been so fucking good.
Yeah well we can't have nice things because shitty reasons
victreeb3l
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Yes Please
And bring back the Halo theme. Not that Halo 4 shit
And bring back the Halo theme. Not that Halo 4 shit
Dat Marty
They tried that once with Neil Blomkamp, Halo failed and we got District 9 instead.
I do agree though if they could have done a movie based on the Fall of Reach without retconing the shit out if the book like they did with Reach then it could have been great.
Ether_Snake
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Please, no Riverdance music in my sci-fi.
I don't think a Halo movie can work. No one will give a damn about what happens except the fans, and the only way to have chief in it is if he isn't the main character but just a hero in the story, some kind of Gandalf in LOTR, or those airplanes at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I don't think a Halo movie can work. No one will give a damn about what happens except the fans, and the only way to have chief in it is if he isn't the main character but just a hero in the story, some kind of Gandalf in LOTR, or those airplanes at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I don't see people throwing a shitfit if he takes the helmet off occasionally. It's not Judge Dredd.
I think the mythology is good enough that they'll have the raw tools. I didn't think there was room for a Halo movie until they developed the bond between Cortana and Chief, though. There was no heart to the franchise whatsoever until then, and no reason to treat Chief as anything but a cardboard cutout badass.
That's got to be a pillar for the film if they give a damn about characterization.
Just not the creepy/uncomfortable/man-i-hope-no-one-is-watching-me-play-this/fan-fictiony sequence at the end of Halo 4, though.
Kind of wish he would have gotten dibs on the halo movie as well.
IdreamofHIME
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It was pretty good.
He got a million dollars for it and they put it in drawer.
Crazy the amount of money blown on this Halo movie over the past decade.
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