{"id":8671,"date":"2010-11-23T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-still-determined-to-do-a-halo-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8671-microsoft-still-determined-to-do-a-halo-movie","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft still determined to do a Halo movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5696369\/microsoft-there-will-be-a-halo-movie  \" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>, Halo franchise development director Frank O&rsquo;Connor is confident about the future of a movie adaptation or even a TV series, despite years of legal wrangling getting in the way.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the director, Microsoft, the highest placed people at movie companies,&rdquo; he says. But, &ldquo;It was the lawyers. When they went behind closed doors with the contracts, things fell apart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The most public victim of this, of course, was Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d love to see Halo as a television series,&rdquo; O&rsquo;Connor goes on to explain. &ldquo;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&#8217;t need a movie. But we&#8217;d like a movie. We&#8217;d like the moms of gamers to see the movies because they would love our characters. Maybe we&#8217;ll even fund it ourselves.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHalo on any screen we have access to\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}