Spielberg Wants To Make Halo Movie from Novels

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Spielberg and DreamWorks are attempting to obtain the rights for a Halo movie.


ZoomWith Halo: Reach out in stores and racking in big bucks for Microsoft, news surrounding the stagnate movie project have begun to stir. The latest report is that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Pictures is currently attempting to obtain the rights in order to revive the project. However Spielberg wants to draw the source material from the novels rather than rework Neil Blomkamp's previously unmade adaption.

Why? It's presumed that DreamWorks doesn't want to get caught up in the legal woes between 20th Century Fox and Universal, the two partners responsible for the original movie project. In a rather lengthy (yet enlightening) account of the ongoing Halo move saga, NYMag's Vulture reports that Fox eventually bailed out on Universal, refusing to share the costs and alleging mismanagement of the developmental process. Universal had already dumped $12 million into screenwriting and production fees prior to Fox's departure. In turn, Universal sued Fox, killing the Halo movie project.

Additional reports claim that Universal and Fox have settled their dispute out of court, however the former studio lost most of its $12 million investment. A new production studio taking on the current Universal-Fox project would mean that Universal legal hounds could go after the new studio to regain the lost production costs. By taking on a new Halo project using a different source material--namely the published novels--DreamWorks isn't obliged to re-pay Universal.

"Another helpful side effect of using the books is that it appeases Microsoft, which authorizes them all; it shows them that DreamWorks takes the canon seriously (even if the process ends with a completely original script)," reads the report. "[Ex-Universal Pictures chairman Stacey] Snider, who declined to comment for this story, is now CEO of DreamWorks, and knows from her days ushering Halo through Universal the importance of keeping Microsoft happy."

So far a writer hasn't been hired, however Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, G.I. Joe) wrote an adaption of Halo: The Fall of Reach back in 2007 and sent it to Microsoft. However the question now is whether a movie would be too late. While Halo: Reach is making millions, Bungie is no longer developing the games. There's also talk that Microsoft is worried about another form of media screwing up the multi-billion dollar Halo franchise. After all, if Spielberg screws it up, how will the company rebound from that?

Still, would Spielberg do a Halo movie justice? Perhaps so as long as it's not touchy-feely like E.T. Then again, the movie has racked in $792,910,554 worldwide since its release back in 1982.
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same bit, i played alot of reach at RAGE, and it sucks that bungie mucked up tha canon so much with it, good game but if they stuck to the massive battle depicted in the novel it would've been even better!

that said yeah, Nylunds vision of the Fall of Reach would make the best movie
 
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