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Paperboy Posts: 31 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | First of all, if they're going to portray Master Chief then they should get a more obscure actor to play him, not some big movie star. I think that would go better with his enigmatic nature. And I don't think he should be a supporting role, because that might be underwhelming and disappoint big fans of the series. I thik they should make a movie set in the universe, but does not follow the story portrayed in the video games. We already know that story; there's no reason to show it again. |
Paperboy Posts: 31 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | And with the right director and writer, this could be a pretty awesome movie. There's just so much potential. |
BANNED Posts: 99 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | Exactly. It doesn't have to follow the story of the games or even the books. It's an entire universe engulfed in an intergalactic war. That's a lot to play around with. When you think about it that way, there aren't a lot of ways they can mess it up. |
Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 9 Apr 2008     | I agree that the right director is needed for the job. At first i doubted Neill Blomkamp was right for the job, since he had only done two shorts and Citreon ad, i thought he was too inexperienced for the job of handling of making a Halo fanboys wet dream come true. However after seeing the short he made, my faith is restored. You can see it here. http://youtube.com/watch?v=BxdvGO1oOF0 |
Muckraker  Posts: 319 Joined: 13 Jan 2008   | Did anyone else hear the Bungie announcement that their not making a movie. Peter Jackson is apparently working with them to make a (possibly series) of Halo games that are part movie and part interactive. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halo:_Chronicles Well, after searching my bookmarks I found that. Seems pretty real to me. Not sure if they really need to make any more Halo based games but who knows, it could be interesting. |
On the Record  Posts: 5969 Joined: 7 Feb 2008     | It would be hard to address the interesting mythology behind Halo in a single film but as long as they approach it seriously and attempt to make a bombastic, fun and action-packed Military Space Opera it should be quite watchable, but I seriously doubt it could ever truly be considered brilliant. |
On the Record Posts: 5969 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 | It would be hard to address the interesting mythology behind Halo in a single film but as long as they approach it seriously and attempt to make a bombastic, fun and action-packed Military Space Opera it should be quite watchable, but I seriously doubt it could ever truly be considered brilliant. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 61 Joined: 27 Feb 2008   |
sounds like a choose your own adventure movie. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 765 Joined: 9 Apr 2008  | I think Halo 1's story would make a great movie. Sure, you would have to change up a few details, pacing and such, but having an "origin story" movie wouldn't be very good. Just do a scrolling text star wars thing to cover the back story, and then BAM, Pillar of Autumn comes out of hyperspace in the background. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007   | Well, for starters, keep Uwe Boll away from it... Actually I think it'd be pretty tough to get a really good Halo movie, as it's really the back-story that makes Halo's storyline so appealing in my (frenetically but unscientifically researched) opinion. Cramming all of that into a movie without overloading the audience or resorting to Captain Exposition enough to make a first-year movie student gag won't be easy. And doing so while still having a Halo in your film is tougher still... I don't think Chronicles is a replacement for the movie... at one point Bungie was vaguely promoting both projects at the same time. -- Steve |
Paperboy Posts: 31 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | I think it would have to be a pretty serious movie, or else it might end up something like Starship Troopers. And I'm sure a lot of non-gamers might look at a trailer and saying, "Wow, that looks really cheesy." It must be serious enough in tone, but still retain the action that we see in the video games. |
BANNED Posts: 99 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | they have the action covered. Have you seen Neil Blomkamp's shorts? |
Muckraker Posts: 229 Joined: 5 Mar 2008 | I'd be wary of going the completely serious route with a film like Halo- when you have a premise like 'US marines fighting alien fundamentalists on a ring-shaped planet that's actually a galactic scale WMD run by an incredibly camp floating eye-bot. Also- zombies' there has to be a certain amount of humour involved. As long as the characters play it straight despite the sheer insanity of the situation (Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers is a good example) then it could work fine. On a more fanboyish note, they should really learn a lesson from Judge Dredd. KEEP THE HELMET ON. -Nick |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1214 Joined: 9 Dec 2007    | Sean Bean. Possibly complemented by a Charlize Theron cameo if she played Cortana, heh. |
On the Record Posts: 5969 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 |
I can't decide whether Sean Bean as Master Chief would be a good or a bad thing? I mean, he has the cockney accent, which would sound odd on The Chief, but he's also Sean Bean and that gives him nearly infinite awesome points, this confuses me... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 359 Joined: 22 Mar 2008   | Have either Master Chief or the Arbiter voiced by Ron Perlman. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2487 Joined: 29 Nov 2007    | Locate the last vestige of humanity that have never seen 'Star Wars' or 'Aliens' and have them direct the film while in total social isolation. Tell them to amp the social commentary about religion and sectarian violence to an extreme while maximizing all metaphors of Master Chief being a religous "technological Jesus". They will also be forced to watch 'Children of Men' several times and explained that teenagers dig this kind of thing. Oh, and they're not allowed to play part 3. Don't want them to know the cliff their genius film will be driving off (don't flip, I liked 1 & 2 a lot but 3's plot pissed me off). |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 9 Apr 2008   | Im sorry but isn't it incredibly obvious who should play Master Chief? Steven Downes, the voice of Master Chief... And as for not using Master Chief as the main character, imbd.com and Wikipedia both have quotes from the director who is playing MC as the main character with several supporting actors so its already been decided. |
BANNED  Posts: 12958 Joined: 30 Jan 2008   | They could not make it a Halo movie. Then it probably would not suck. User was banned for: Poll: What is your opinion on the Metal Gear Solid storylines?. (Permanent) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 377 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  |
he's from sheffield which for people who don't know is a long way from london, therefore he does not have a 'cockney' accent |
Muckraker  Posts: 307 Joined: 17 Oct 2007 | Its not really. . . possible. . . to mess up a halo movie, i mean seriously. Theres nothing you can do wrong, (thats not to say there is anything to do right either,) the story is something like. . . idk, identical to most space-travel-scifi-alien-thingies, and isnt exactly what we are watching for, is it? If your concerned about story elements, your in the wrong theatre. How to mess it up? have anything less than face-melting action. OH, and have master chief played by tom cruise. i would not approve. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 377 Joined: 7 Nov 2007 | how about we just don't make movies from games...ever |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | The first thing that they could do is make it an animation. Not a saturday morning pastel color affair, no big-eyed tentacle monsters, but still an animation. Why, you ask? Because flesh is weak. Halo has a fairly neat setting and storyline, but any kind of action movie based on it has to center on lots of things blowing up. Trying to make that awesome with its plot means starting from entirely the wrong end. It's like modern FPS games - they have dazzling graphical effects and lots of things going on at once, yet many try to shine by their realism and storytelling, two things that are very much not shooter games' forte. If you can't dual wield gatling guns and levitate by the recoil alone, your FPS is doing something wrong. The other strength of the Halo series is its extraordinary set of ridiculously overpowered super-soldiers, and animation lets film-makers get away with things that do the SPARTANs justice. What I want to see is a feature-length professional version of that "Haloid" video. Live action would be hard pressed to make anyone leap out of a single spacecraft; I want to have the hero and the bad guy move onto a planet's surface by blowing up the ship they're in and continuing to fight for their entire fall, while ricocheting off and throwing pieces of debris. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007 |
Perlman's already in the Halo story, as Admiral Hood. Which of course means you have to cast someone at least 6" taller than Perlman as the Chief... Say, is David Prowse still open for gigs? Do the same as in Star Wars, except have Steve Downes dub him instead of James Earl Jones. -- Steve |
Muckraker  Posts: 235 Joined: 8 Nov 2007   | Not make it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1578 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 |
That's one of the best suggestions I've ever heard. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 107 Joined: 9 Dec 2007 | It would be best if the Halo movie avoided any correlation with Master Chief. It would be like making a Half Life movie. Incorporating a silent character into a movie is hard. Also, I think it would be weird seeing your favorite character talk. ANYWays, the Halo movie should probably be about humanity's first reaction to the Covenant attack. It should focus on one marine or one citizen, with Master Chief only being mentioned from time to time. Still, getting a movie centered around a game to work is pretty hard. I think movie producers should just forget it. |
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What could they do with the Halo movie? How could they approach it? What story would it be based off of? Who would be the main character? The Halo movie has a large chance of being another horrible game movie that you laugh at. How might they avoid that fate?
I think they should cast Master Chief as a supporting role and it should be set on Harvest. The Halo story is actually a pretty engaging and flexible sci-fi story. Humans expand into deep space, colonizing far off worlds. Humans create colony on the holy land of an extremely powerful race of aliens led by insane prophets. You can pretty much work that story any way you want. You could create a character for the movie and just have the Chief as some dude who saves their asses from time to time (just like in the movie). Most marines never even see the Master Chief. Halo's story is a very flexible and very simple sci-fi story. Aliens attack small human colony and begin great war. You have some dude called John 117 who's some genetically and cybernetically enhanced super soldier who saves everyone's asses. And John 117 doesn't even have a face, which means you can leave him as a minor supporting actor. What Halo really is is some massive space drama. I hate it when people think of Halo and they automatically think that it will suck. It might not. Halo has an extremely flexible and fairly deep story.
What do you think could happen? How might they do it?