The only reason that Mister Uwe Boll can do what he wants in the movie industry is,that he have founds in Germany which supports him and his silly video game adaptions!I am living in Germany and in every movie mag interview Boll is acting like he is a god or something...!Boll give up and go back to your onionfields where you came from...!(TRUE!!!)
Peter Jackson to Direct Halo
According to ninemsn news Peter Jackson is in the running to direct The New Halo movie.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=65720
LOS ANGELES - The Oscar-winning creative team behind the The Lord of the Rings films, including director Peter Jackson, has been named to run the production of the upcoming film based on Microsoft blockbuster Halo video game, the company has said.Jackson and his wife, Fran Walsh, will serve as the executive producers for Halo, which is targeted for worldwide release in mid-2007 by Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox film studios.
Universal will oversee the film's production and domestic distribution. Fox will handle international distribution.
Donna Langley, Universal's production president, told Reuters it is impossible at this early stage to give specific details about the film.
"The game is a good template," hinted Langley, who added that Halo will have a bigger budget than Doom, the video game-inspired Universal film due in theaters later this month.
Langley described Doom as a monster chase movie that moves from Point A to Point B. The "Halo" games have a more complex mythology, characters, environments and worlds, Langley said.
Halo, the best-selling franchise for Microsoft's Xbox game console, follows the adventures of the futuristic super-soldier Master Chief as he battles an alien onslaught.
The Halo movie will be shot in Wellington, New Zealand, and will use Jackson's production and post-production facilities there.
"He eradicates any cynicism that might exist with core fans (of the game). At the same time, he makes a movie like this appealing to a mainstream audience," Langley said of the director, who is an avid video game player and fan of Halo.
The executive producers will collaborate with Universal, Fox and Microsoft's Bungie Studios, which created the game.
Screenwriter and novelist Alex Garland wrote the original feature film adaptation of Halo. A director will be named in coming weeks, and the cast has yet to be announced.
Jackson and Walsh are currently in post-production on Universal's King Kong, slated for release in December. Halo marks the first time that the duo are acting as executive producers on a major film that Jackson is not directing.
The video game industry -- whose sales rival those of U.S. box offices -- is gaining status, taming its maverick image and moving closer to Hollywood. By the time of its release, "Halo" will join such other video game-inspired films as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and Doom. But the industry's Hollywood inroads have not been without bumps.
Hollywood's major film studios gave Microsoft a cool reception last spring when the company came to them with an initially high asking price for Halo. The script was delivered by costumed, laser gun-toting messengers.
As part of their deal with the global software giant and No. 2 video game console maker, Universal and Fox will pay Microsoft US$5 million plus a percentage of movie ticket sales. The price is capped at 10 percent of domestic box office receipts.
Universal Pictures is operated by the NBC Universal media division of General Electric Co., and is co-owned by Vivendi Universal. Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd.
I was in the John at a movie studio and I overheard Boll pitch the movie to a producer, it went something like this, "In the future, a cop is killed by a serial killer and is resurrected as a cyborg so frickin awesome it makes Robocop pee his pants and he is master cheif. Then he has to track down a serial killer obsessed with angel halos. He moves at the speed of thought and eats his co-co puffs so fast that we do like this 30 minute matrix shot of him eating his co-co puffs so everyone understands how much of a bad ass he is. They will be like "Wow, I sit here for 30 minutes seeing this bad ass robot eat his cheerios like neo, if he eats his cereal this bad ass, then he MUST be really bad ass when he hits somebody! Boll is the man!" then after the movie everyone likes me so much as an awesome director that I finally get to go for my oscar for directiing by writing a Luigi's Mansion movie. People love me long time!"
Originally posted by cameron666nooo i hate halo soo much why wont they do killzone its a way beter game better graphics no offence halo nerds bvut the ppl in it arent stupid like ur team mates in halo and they look reall and brian cox is in it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464037/The Apocalypse is coming in 2007. . .