Talking to Kotaku, Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor is confident about the future of a movie adaptation or even a TV series, despite years of legal wrangling getting in the way.
“Everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the director, Microsoft, the highest placed people at movie companies,” he says. But, “It was the lawyers. When they went behind closed doors with the contracts, things fell apart.”
The most public victim of this, of course, was Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp’s live action Halo short, produced as a proof of concept in 2006. The project was scrapped after a series of conflicts between 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, and Peter Jackson.
“We’d love to see Halo as a television series,” O’Connor goes on to explain. “Look what HBO did with Band of Brothers or even Rome. Something like that would work because the Halo universe is so vast. There will be a Halo movie. We don’t need a movie. But we’d like a movie. We’d like the moms of gamers to see the movies because they would love our characters. Maybe we’ll even fund it ourselves.
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