South African director Neill Blomkamp has said that the failure of the Halo film project allowed him to make his breakout movie, District 9.
“The luck is the fact that Peter [Jackson] and Fran [Walsh] let me make [District 9] out of the ruins that were Halo,” said Blomkamp.
“What happened out of that was learning to trust my ideas. If Halo had come out and succeeded or failed, I wouldn’t have learned that.”
While the death of the Halo film project was a good omen for the SA director, he has expressed that he’d still like to do the film, but there are obstacles to consider.
“I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of Halo. If I was given control, I would really like to do that film,” Blomkamp said. “But that’s the problem. When something pre-exists, there’s this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film’s interpretation of the same intellectual property.
Bloemkamp’s next sci-fi epic, Elysium, will hit theatres on 9 August 2013.
Neil Bloemkamp
Source: LA Times
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Elysium- one of the few movies I’ve been looking forward to.