According to movie website IESB Steven Spielberg  is in “active negotiations” to produce a Halo movie.

The multiple Oscar winning director/producer was apparently “blown away” when he read Stuart Beatie’s script for the movie entitled ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach’. Microsoft owns the rights to the Halo franchise and it is no secret that the company has a good relationship with the movie maker, especially following E3 which had Spielberg making an appearance when Microsoft unveiled Project Natal.

Spielberg apparently enjoys gaming, and actor Shia LaBeouf, who has worked numerous times with Spielberg, has been quoted recounting an incident in which he discovered the Director stuck on a level in Bioshock.

“I get there and stick my head in to ask if he’s ready-and this is classic Spielberg-he says, ‘Nope, Shia. I’m trapped!’ ” LaBeouf then starts playing both parts-concerned protégé and faraway mentor:

“You’re trapped? Steven, what are you talking about?”

“I’m trapped back here. Follow my voice.”

“Where are you?”

“Over here… Here… Here!”

LaBeouf kept following the calls until he got to the director’s office. And there was the master himself: shoes off, socks on, dressed in shooting gear, but sitting behind a computer, stuck on the fifteenth level of a first-person shooter called BioShock.

“This is like months to get to this level, and he can’t get past this one little mysterious spider god, and he’s losing his mind. He’s like, ‘I can’t do it, Shia! I can’t do it.’ ” Said LeBeouf, although we don’t remember any ‘mysterious spider Gods’ in Bioshock.

Beatie’s script apparently spans three full length feature films; Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: Rise of the Flood and Halo: Battle For Earth. The first movie will tell the story of a man called John who was kidnapped/conscripted at age 6 by the UNSC to become a Elite Spartan Warrior who goes on to be known as Master Chief 117.The movies will progress through the events of the Halo trilogy ending with Halo: Battle for Earth which is based on Halo 3.

The Halo movie had been considered dead when Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp walked away from the project after six months of early development and planning. With Spielberg looking to produce the films however, it seems likely that we will eventually get a taste of the Halo universe on the big screen.

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