So there was talk about Stuart Beattie – you may know him better as
that guy adapting Gears of War for the big screen – giving the stalled
Halo movie some much needed TLC in the form of
a new script based on Eric Nylund's novel
Halo: Fall of Reach. The original source of that rumor now claims to have five pieces of concept art from the new script, which are all part of "an eventual presentation" to be given to the fat cats at Microsoft. Here's where you come in: they'll be dropping one a week on y'all for the next five weeks.
We've got some concept art for a
Halo movie right here: it's called
Halo 3 and it's a whole DVD full of aliens, 'splosions, and Master Chiefs. But if you've just got to see a larger version of the above concept art, we won't stop you from clicking that Source link below.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
john @ Aug 5th 2008 12:35PM
Looks like fun!
A Halo movie would suck, but a Halo ride at 6 Flags? That's where the money is.
J.Goodwin @ Aug 5th 2008 12:39PM
Why does the ship have a sign for Latino Review painted on it?
beans @ Aug 5th 2008 12:39PM
any of the books (except for the flood - the halo:ce adaptation) would make good movies. I remember reading contact harvest (first one I read) thinking that they could easily make it into a movie that I would want to watch...and MC wasn't even in it. Fall of reach sounds like a good choice if they can balance out the covenant battles with spartan creation stories...
ELUNO @ Aug 5th 2008 12:40PM
Super Halo Galaxy??
Erik Stroud @ Aug 5th 2008 12:40PM
hmmm... Right now I am a little skeptic. It looks nice, and I have heard about the second script. Maybe it's real and this will also be announced at the special event Microsoft was talking about when they kept bungie from announcing the game they were making.
Metal Gear!? @ Aug 5th 2008 12:41PM
I sure hope Gears 2 makes the idea of a movie seem like a better idea to me. I liked Gears 1, but there really wasn't much story. I heard that Cliff B. wanted to make moke story driven games again, so hopefully the story in Gears 2 is more fleshed out.
xFenixKnightx (RRoD hath striketh upon me 08-03-2008) @ Aug 5th 2008 1:19PM
Thats why I'm hoping the next Unreal is just...Unreal (with a true story and campaign) and not Unreal Tourney.
Green Monkie @ Aug 5th 2008 12:56PM
Screw a movie. With concept art like that they should be thinking about Halo 4: Super Master Chief Galaxy. Complete with Mii, I mean Avatar support.
Snowblind @ Aug 5th 2008 2:20PM
You know, the Fall of Reach was released six years before Mario Galaxy? Now you know where Nintendo is getting all their ideas. First MSN avatars, and now Halo novels. ;)
Green Monkie @ Aug 5th 2008 3:31PM
Touché
CJLopez @ Aug 5th 2008 1:13PM
That picture reminds me of the introduction movie of Quake2, where all the soldier are launched to battle in their pods
Metal Gear!? @ Aug 5th 2008 1:24PM
Damn, where do all these spelling errors keep coming from? I meant to put "make more story driven games".
StrangeBum @ Aug 5th 2008 2:52PM
Just a heads up MG
you can reply to your own comments if you find that you have made a spelling error and would like to correct it..
joystiq needs and edit button
/really guys..you do
StrangeBum @ Aug 5th 2008 2:53PM
Sorry for a double reply..
but proof in point... "an edit button"
The_Punisher @ Aug 5th 2008 1:28PM
Well that book was excellent, and would make a great movie. The Flood.....not so mcuh....
343 Guilty Fart @ Aug 5th 2008 1:57PM
I'm a big Halo fan, but that art just looks, well, pardon my language, 'hella gay'.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Aug 5th 2008 3:48PM
apparently you weren't paying attention when the article stated it was concept art.
343 Guilty Fart @ Aug 5th 2008 5:15PM
Just because it's concept art doesn't mean it can't look stupid. What's with the Spartans-as-torpedoes? I thought that was a joke pic before I read that it was real.
Mrblonde @ Aug 5th 2008 2:13PM
I don't know about a lot of people here, but I loved the first novel and had very high hopes they would use it as the story for the halo movie. I'm not one of those over obsessed halo fans, but I really like halo. The story in the book would make for a very good movie that is if they follow very closely to the actual story and don't take it a different direction. I really hope that isn't what happens
Mrblonde @ Aug 5th 2008 2:15PM
I don't know about a lot of people here, but I loved the first novel and had very high hopes they would use it as the story for the halo movie. I'm not one of those over obsessed halo fans, but I really like halo. The story in the book would make for a very good movie that is if they follow very closely to the actual story and don't take it a different direction. I really hope that isn't what happens
Snowblind @ Aug 5th 2008 2:18PM
Despite popular belief, Halo has a pretty good story, and the Fall of Reach was excellent. A movie based on that makes a LOT more sense than a Gears movie, or even an MGS one.
Corbo @ Aug 5th 2008 2:44PM
Why am I suddenly reminded of that Simpsons episode where Homer accidently fires the navy guy out of a submarine's torpedo tube?
Skaz @ Aug 5th 2008 9:18PM
DAMN THE TORPEDOES! Send the Spartans.
peepoop @ Aug 5th 2008 2:45PM
CHIEFS.....
IN.....
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
F1 & The day I beat Ghost and Goblins @ Aug 5th 2008 2:54PM
That would be cool but a Ghost of Onyx book would definatley catch attention!
Metal Gear!? @ Aug 5th 2008 3:10PM
Thanks Strange. I never even thought to look.
I WAS excited about a Halo movie until I saw those live action shorts(shudder). That Niel guy was a hack. I'm not one of those huge Peter Jackson fans, but if they are going to do a movie, he has to direct. Even though Transformers was freaking awesome, I don't think Bay would be good.
Del Toro's imagination would go too far (Hellboy 2, still good though). Finally Spielberg hasn't, to my knowledge, done anything very good lately.
Yawn @ Aug 5th 2008 3:46PM
Cant they just get the directors from halo 1 2 and 3 to help?
Kye - Me_DF @ Aug 5th 2008 4:17PM
So I finished the book a few days ago.
And I'd like to know if I missed it, or there was a part where 3 Spartans were flying through space?
Snowblind @ Aug 5th 2008 6:25PM
I believe it was when John, Sam and Linda boarded the Covenant vessel by simply opening the airlock and "swimming" over.
But it's been a very long time since I read the book.
Kye - Me_DF @ Aug 5th 2008 7:33PM
You're right.
Thanx.
I just looked it up.
Boy, isn't that egg on my face.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Aug 5th 2008 4:37PM
It's a spec script. That means he wrote it on his own and is shopping it around. Thus, it doesn't imply any actual intention by a movie company to make a Halo movie.
I could write a spec script for a Kirby movie, make some art and shop it around. That wouldn't mean N is up to making a Kirby movie.
Misfit Toy @ Aug 5th 2008 5:32PM
Fall of Reach has a great "humanity" hook. I think the fans of the game would love a movie that introduces them to how the Master Chief became the Master Chief. Also, the introduction of John 117 to Cortana is a great story to be told as well. Not to mention seeing more than just one Spartan in action at a time.
For those of you who haven't read the story, at least in parts of the book there are hundreds of Spartans in action. That would be something to see on the big screen...given a healthy budget that is.
Kye - Me_DF @ Aug 5th 2008 7:47PM
I loved the book as much as the next guy but you're embellishing just a bit methinks.
Ive got a memory like a sieve but I thought there were only 75 or so spartan recruits to begin with.
Only 42 of which were alive after the augmentation process.
Only 30 of those fit to fight.
beans @ Aug 5th 2008 10:55PM
sounds about right...and the number keeps going down as the book progresses...he might be referring to ghosts of onyx though, where they had the spartan IIIs...but they're not real spartans like MC.
Misfit Toy @ Aug 5th 2008 5:36PM
I'm content with merely the idea that a Halo movie isn't dead. Its a solid sci-fi universe, not just a game based on a video game. Mass Effect has also created a viable universe as well. These are stories that with the right director and special effects team could make a summer blockbuster easily.
Special effects = exciting trailer = audience filling seats.
Keeping the story solid and compelling is the hard part, but most of the work is done if they base it off an already completed and (mind you) very good novel that stands on its own.