Peter Jackson says you can put a fork in Halo Chronicles |
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| BY Aaron Yorke Jul. 24th, 2009 | More on: |
Those of you hoping for an epic Peter Jackson-produced series of films based on an equally epic series of videogames will have to wait for the next wave of rumors. That’s because when asked about the Halo project before a District 9 screening, Jackson explained that “it sort of collapsed when the movie didn’t end up happening.”
That’s just a shame because Halo would make for an entertaining movie, and who wouldn’t love listening to the fans whine when it didn’t turn out exactly how they’d envisioned it? For a while it looked like we would be able to indulge in such a pleasure, as the project was hinted at as early as 2006 and then began hiring in 2008 before finally biting the dust sometime in the recent past.
While we may never know exactly why Peter Jackson gave up on Halo, at least we know it’s not for his love of aliens, thanks to the the premise of his upcoming District 9 film.
July 24th, 2009
at 7:41 pm
district 9 looks great.
as for Halo the games are Solid, the first showed how an FPS can be done correctly on a console when many of the time stank, but as for the Story …. ive never got into like other epic games… its always seemed lacking to me..
theres spin off lore with comics and various other media that make it richer.. but ive never got into it and just appreciated the games as shooters.
i dont like how people make it out to be the best epic action tail of all gamedom…
July 24th, 2009
at 11:19 pm
There are too many great epic stories for the Halo saga to be considered the best, but for an FPS, it’s pretty impressive. There are games that have better narratives, but a lot of them are RPGs or games like Metal Gear Solid that concentrate on story. For Halo to have the great story on top of the solid FPS action and fun multiplayer makes it a really impressive series.
July 25th, 2009
at 11:13 am
lets face it , they didn’t help it by having Master Chief say next to nothing the whole series. I donno..
people see him as an iconic game character…just seems like a grunt you just happen to play through the game as. that Halo 3 teaser with MC coming out into the open to the familiar gingle didn’t get me any where near the same thoughts as when i first jumped off the VTOL in Halo 1 and started shooting to that music.
and the whole Cortana in trouble tease i felt was daft
just me.. nvm