August 18th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
In this week’s Bungie update there has been posted a second full size, fully functioning Warthog picture. This time with it’s suspension raised and with a human, armour clad gunner on the turret.
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And this is what they had to say about the upcoming Blomkamp short:
“The above image shows just how to scale the Warthog that WETA has been making is – that’s a real life human manning the gun. While there’s still not too much to talk about regarding the excellent work of Neill Blomkamp, the studio did get a sneak peak of his next short earlier this week. It prompted a number of “Wait, was that a…” and “ZOMGz” from the various folks around here, and needless to say, when it surfaces next, you’re in for a gritty and delightful treat.“
Looking forward to the next live action short. I am sure it will make us all salivate a little more about how great a feature length Halo movie would be.
July 21st, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
We have all, by now, seen Neill Blomkamp’s brief E3 trailer which had been made in partnership with Weta Workshop. Now we can reveal the full life size replica, fully functional Warthog that Weta created for Blomkamp to use in his shorts. This is a thing of beauty.
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Via Bungie.net
June 19th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
Many misleading reports have been filed about the purported re-firing of the Halo Movie engines. These reports assumed that a Halo GAME and FRANCHISE distribution deal, made by Fox, extended to the movie. This is not the case and NO MOVIE DEVELOPMENT plans have as YET been confirmed.
This deal does however look favourably on the Halo movie process and could initiate the future development. Though, as it stands, we are still not moving anywhere, our ignition is firmly set to off.
May 26th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
In an interview with OnFilm, Peter Jackson says that once Halo 3 hits, with the Halo publicity machine running and the hype boiling over the Halo Movie will soon see its development woes disappear. He is also resolute that Neill Blomkamp is the man to deliver Halo to the big screen.
“We wouldn’t want to do it with anyone else. It’s Neill’s call.”
For more Peter Jackson news, The Hobbit, Lovely Bones, Dambusters etc, check out Cinematical’s article.
But I’m sure you guys are all too busy playing the Halo 3 beta to read this news post, let alone any links I point you to.
May 13th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
Joystiq were at the Halo 3 public beta event in New York this week and they had the opportunity to interview Frank O’Connor, Bungie’s writing lead - you probably all know him from the regular Friday updates he posts.
Here’s what he had to say about the on-hiatus Halo film that we haven’t heard much about in the past few weeks:
How about the movie? What’s happening there? I imagine that in your position that you’re also responsible for the writing on that.
Well, we certainly work with them on the story bible, but they have Hollywood script writers. They’re not just gonna let me sit and write a movie. But the movie’s on hiatus right now. They need to sort out the finances, the politics of it. It’s really common in the movie industry for would-be competitors to cooperate on products, and you add a studio and a big corporation like Microsoft in the mix and it’s really complicated. I personally wish that we kept up the momentum with the movie so that I could see it next year. That’s not going to happen. But technically the movie is still a work in progress that will happen one day so we’re just waiting until everything’s right and all our ducks are in a row to make it happen properly.
Are Microsoft, and Peter Jackson as producer, still wedded to Neil Blomkamp as director? That was one of the problems that the financiers had.
That was one of the rumors. It’s a lot more complicated than that. But Neil Blomkamp is still working really closely with Peter Jackson. Honestly, I’d be really curious to see what Neil Blomkamp — if you’ve seen any of his shorts — what he could do with the physicality of the Master Chief. Seeing the Master Chief in video games
is one thing; he’s running around with guns and rocket launchers. I’d like to see him taking out some trucks bare-handed, clambering across rooftops, leaping from building to building, in a way that you can only really do in a movie. You can take such artistic liberties with the gameplay elements, that I think Neil Blomkamp would be able to do something fantastic but I literally don’t know if he would be the director who made the movie eventually. I have no idea.
He’s certainly an interesting choice, a unique choice.
As a director, he certainly speaks to the militaristic, realistic sort of anachronistic almost, human element that we have in the game. If you look at Halo, you’ll see that human technology in the 26th century is barely changed from the 21st. I think he’d be able to do some really interesting things with atmosphere as well as with action.
So it looks like things are still going to head forward sometime in the future, just the nitty gritty business deals and funding to get sorted, as per usual. Also… bring on the Halo 3 beta (did you all get your Halo 3 beta invite?), I think we’re all looking forward to it.
Full interview at Joystiq, read on for info about Halo 3 multiplayer, story lines and Peter Jackson’s episodic content.
April 24th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
Despite the Halo Movie’s apparent pause, Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson continue to work together. The recently surfaced “Crossing the Line” clip using the high tech Red 4k has been written and directed by the pair. Check it out at the Red user forums, download links at the bottom.
Also, looking forward to the Halo 3 public beta?
February 13th, 2007, posted by FofR | Digg This
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Fox and Universal are fighting over the $12m Halo movie pre-production costs, the slew of the problems come as Fox refuse to pay for the split costs 50-50, claiming that Universal studios should have asked permission to split these costs beforehand. In response, Universal are threatening to sue Fox to force them to pay what they believe they rightfully should.
It’s all quite funny.
