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To all Halo fans in Nationstates. Be sure to tell your friends that a director has been attached to the film adaptation at long last.

It isn't Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black Hawk Down and who many fans wanted most to direct after Jackson), Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Hellboy, Blade 2) nor is it Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings, Dead Alive, King Kong 05). It isn't one of the top three talked about men, though Jackson is executive producer.

Like most people believed (and many feared) the director is a music and commercial director and this is his first feature film.

The director is a South African named Neill Bloomkamp who has enjoyed success working in music videos, commercials, shorts and such. This will be his frist feature film. Lord knows if he somehow screws it up...he probably won't find work again.

An expcert of an interview with him from ign:

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/724/724830p1.html

Theoretically, that gives the Halo film a significantly bigger shot than if the name has been Uwe Toilet Boll or Paul S. Anderson.

It's not McG, Uwe Boll or Paul S. Anderson. And he's never done a film before. I'm willing to give him a shot.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

The guy should fear for his life - if he fucks this up, millions of crazed Halo fans will be beating a path to wherever he is, whenever he's there. And they won't be coming to congratulate him on a "good first try".

I'll go see it. It could be good.

I personally like Paul W.S Anderson as a director though he could have made AVP a lot more scary and bloody. Mortal Kombat was good, Event Horizon and Resident Evil (though the fact the zombie king George A. Romero was orginally attached to write and direct is always on my mind) were also pretty decent.

Uwe Boll....his problem to me is that he seems to have no touch with the fanbase in some resepects. He has mentioned a Bloodrayne sequel (before Romar botched the release and only about 1,000 theaters got it) in the Wild West...NOT what fans want. I have to give him credit he is one hell of a money raiser due to a German tax law (which apparently has been fixed or something). I will give Dungeon Siege a chance as it looks pretty good.

I usually rate directors movie to movie but some you can judge as great directors and others as bad. Though sometimes the director gets screwed by the studio (as what happened to Kurt Wimmer on Ultraviolet and Michael Mann on The Keep from '83) and they will reedit the film to what they desire and what gets released is not at all what the director wanted. ULTRAVIOLET for example was originally about 2 hours or so long with a lot more explination and such but was slashed to about 80-90 minutes by the studio. THE KEEP also ran about 2.5-3 hours but was also slashed to about 90 minutes or so.

So in that regard I do feel sympathy with some directors having to bend to the studio's and producer's demands.

Still....with this...I will give Bloomkamp a chance.

I personally like Paul W.S Anderson as a director though he could have made AVP a lot more scary and bloody. Let's face it, AVP was terrible. The only likable characters were the xenomorphs...
Mortal Kombat was good, Event Horizon and Resident Evil (though the fact the zombie king George A. Romero was orginally attached to write and direct is always on my mind) were also pretty decent.
...True...

So in that regard I do feel sympathy with some directors having to bend to the studio's and producer's demands.
Fuck 'em. David Fincher didn't, and he made not one, but four really excellent movies (Alien3, The Game, Fight Club, and Se7en). Paul WS Anderson does, and he consistently makes decent movies, with a few really bad ones.

Uwe Boll....his problem to me is that he seems to have no touch with the fanbase in some resepects. He has mentioned a Bloodrayne sequel (before Romar botched the release and only about 1,000 theaters got it) in the Wild West...NOT what fans want. I have to give him credit he is one hell of a money raiser due to a German tax law (which apparently has been fixed or something). I will give Dungeon Siege a chance as it looks pretty good.

Toilet Boll's problem is a lot worse than being out of touch. He's a real-life version of The Producers in action. With German tax laws, failed movies are a write-off so he pretty much makes a huge return with every awesome game franchise he sodomizes with his hackery.

I'll either pray for his soul if he fucks it up....or grab a pitchfork and join the mobs.

I'll either pray for his soul if he fucks it up....or grab a pitchfork and join the mobs.
Why is everyone saying that? I mean, if he screws it up, it's like "Oh noes, he screwed up a 90-minute commercial!!!"
It's a videogame movie, people, not a real film.

I pray to God it's good. I for one thought the books were great, I just hope the movie's as good.

Why is everyone saying that? I mean, if he screws it up, it's like "Oh noes, he screwed up a 90-minute commercial!!!"
It's a videogame movie, people, not a real film.


Because the Halo series is 1. What made X-box a hit (In my opinion) and 2. They're are God only knows how many people that worship Halo.

And we all know that in this day and age, some Halo freak drug addict will go pull a stunt....

Why is everyone saying that? I mean, if he screws it up, it's like "Oh noes, he screwed up a 90-minute commercial!!!"
It's a videogame movie, people, not a real film.
He's trying to please fanboys here. Rabid Halo fanboys, no less. They want what they want and have spent the last few years playing shooting simulations. I'd be afraid of screwing it up if I were the director.

I dunno...I half expected Peter Jackson to get this.

Thank god.

LOTR...brilliant.

King Kong?
I don't want to watch 3 minute staring contests between a blonde and a giant ape. Sorry.

I dunno...I half expected Peter Jackson to get this.




I was hoping he'd get it.

Why is everyone saying that? I mean, if he screws it up, it's like "Oh noes, he screwed up a 90-minute commercial!!!"
It's a videogame movie, people, not a real film.

*frags LNI* Gained the lead.

Halo is amazing. It's a great game, with a very interesting plot and characters in addition to the gameplay. It absolutely has the potential to make a good movie, and definitely deserves not to be fucked up by a C-list director.

Ireland: You didn't like the Predators? *pulls out shoulder cannon* You and I might need to talk :P

Now I do admit Anderson did bend to Fox for a PG13 AVP to hopefully gather up more money and the whole AVP community hates him for it. I gotta hand it to Fincher for taking on Alien3 after so many drafts and a few directors (including DIE HARD 2, CUTTHROAT ISLAND, EXORCIST THE BEGINING director Renny Harlin) were dropped. His original cut is much better than the theatrical cut imo.

Bloomkamp is defiantly under a lot of pressure no doubt from the HALO fanbase, sci-fi lovers and gamers and no doubt every bit of the movie will be tracked and I wouldn't be at all surprised if a few rabid fans sneak onto set to try and snap pictures. All the power to him and with the great Peter Jackson on board it should be pretty good.

I dunno...I half expected Peter Jackson to get this.

Thank god.

LOTR...brilliant.

And that's where you lose all credibility. LOTR was a lame book and an equally lame movie, it was just marketed extremely well. I mean, the only decent part of the movie was Viggo Mortenson, and he was MUCH better in A History of Violence. The hobbits are boring, and the fight scenes are filler... there's very little character developement... I could go on.

Some stuff about king kong sucking...
Yup.

Why is everyone saying that? I mean, if he screws it up, it's like "Oh noes, he screwed up a 90-minute commercial!!!"
It's a videogame movie, people, not a real film.Because a lot of Halo fanboys will go nuts if he messes up a movie that is suppose to be the game on film.

He's trying to please fanboys here. Rabid Halo fanboys, no less. They want what they want and have spent the last few years playing shooting simulations. I'd be afraid of screwing it up if I were the director.

This is like remaking the Godfather. Unless you're a freakin' deity, you're gonna fuck it up.

Now, as to whether I'll still be angry when he fucks it up...well, I'd join an angry mob if somebody fucked up the Godfather...

And that's where you lose all credibility. LOTR was a lame book and an equally lame movie, it was just marketed extremely well. I mean, the only decent part of the movie was Viggo Mortenson, and he was MUCH better in A History of Violence. The hobbits are boring, and the fight scenes are filler... there's very little character developement... I could go on.


Dude...you sound like Randall from CLERKS II. Lord of the Rings is the best fantasy book ever written and best fantasy films ever made. I am a fan of the films and the books...but before anyone thinks I am not the nut wearing an elf or Gondorian outfit while surfing any website that is remotly related to LOTR.

LOTR is AWESOME. No one will dare remake them...ever.

This is like remaking the Godfather. Unless you're a freakin' deity, you're gonna fuck it up.

Now, as to whether I'll still be angry when he fucks it up...well, I'd join an angry mob if somebody fucked up the Godfather...
What the fuck did you just say?
HALO and Godfather are on such different level that they can't even see each other. HALO is a videogame. Godfather is an excellent and incredibly influential book.
That's like comparing Taxi Driver to Taxi.

Dude...you sound like Randall from CLERKS II. Lord of the Rings is the best fantasy book ever written and best fantasy films ever made. I am a fan of the films and the books...but before anyone thinks I am not the nut wearing an elf or Gondorian outfit while surfing any website that is remotly related to LOTR.

LOTR is AWESOME. No one will dare remake them...ever.
First of all, he's not Randall from Clerks II, he's Randal from the View Askewniverse. He's been there from the beginning.
LOTR is far from the best fantasy books ever written. It is shallow, has a unambitious plotline, and the prose is incredibly dry and boring. It is also very elitist (the "heroes" whacking away at the "brutal, soulless", faceless Orcs...). You should read Discworld, it's much, much better.
And, if you think LOTR is the best fantasy film ever, you clearly haven't seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Nausicaa....

"From a purely game playing perspective, I am a massive fan of the games, but more importantly, I'm a massive fan of the world and universe of Halo, the science fiction world that the games take place inside of," Blomkamp tells Ain't It Cool News.

Fans of the game are already concerned that the movie might be tempted to stray too far from its roots. Blomkamp addressed such concerns, saying, "I think you can be faithful to the game and just begin to layer things that have not yet been seen, over the fabric of what exists. You don't want people who know the game to see the film and not have anything that isn't new."

I would much rather have an inexperienced short film director who respects the story than a hotshot director who doesn't give a crap about it. I mean, just becase Blomkamp's never made a feature film doesn't mean Halo's going to bomb. Have you seen Alive in Joburg (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1185812222812358837)? It's a very well done work. His style would fit in with Halo perfectly.

Uwe Boll....his problem to me is that he seems to have no touch with the fanbase in some resepects. He has mentioned a Bloodrayne sequel (before Romar botched the release and only about 1,000 theaters got it) in the Wild West...NOT what fans want. I have to give him credit he is one hell of a money raiser due to a German tax law (which apparently has been fixed or something). I will give Dungeon Siege a chance as it looks pretty good.

I, as a German, apologise for Uwe Boll. I won't apologise for Hitler, but I'll apologise for Boll. Savour this moment.

I personally like Paul W.S Anderson as a director though he could have made AVP a lot more scary and bloody.
In his defence, the studios demanded that it be goreless, in order to get a PG certificate.
So he was pretty much hamstrung before work even started.

Of course, he could have done gory scenes and had them re-inserted for the DVD...

Theoretically, that gives the Halo film a significantly bigger shot than if the name has been Uwe Toilet Boll or Paul S. Anderson.


Uwe Boll is too busy ruining Dungeon Siege, and Far Cry.....

LOTR is far from the best fantasy books ever written. It is shallow, has a unambitious plotline, and the prose is incredibly dry and boring.
What? Without Lord of the Rings, the fantasy genre would not have had a plave in the twentieth century, and unambitous? It's inprisring, and has produced the only fictional world I could give a shit about.
It is also very elitist (the "heroes" whacking away at the "brutal, soulless", faceless Orcs...).
:rolleyes:
You should read Discworld, it's much, much better.
Discworld is a comedy. It can’t be taken seriously.
And, if you think LOTR is the best fantasy film ever, you clearly haven't seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Nausicaa....
Raiders of the Lost Ark? One of the best fantasy movies? It’s a great action movie, but really now.
Oh, must have been a joke. I mean alongside those other movies, what else could it be?

The guy should fear for his life - if he fucks this up, millions of crazed Halo fans will be beating a path to wherever he is, whenever he's there.

While dual-welding Convent and Terran weapons?

I, as a German, apologise for Uwe Boll. I won't apologise for Hitler, but I'll apologise for Boll. Savour this moment.

And while you're at it, might want to start a petition to Frau Chancellor to revise the laws that let this kook gain a doctorate in the first place.

:p

While dual-welding Convent and Terran weapons?

A Convent Weapon: A nun's ruler to the knuckles on casual offenses, the Yard Stick for when the Sin is too great for 12 inches.

Oh wait... you meant Covenant weapons.

Ugh, it's going to be terrible now. I can see it now, shitty thrash metal playing everytime a gun is fired.

personally i didnt think Halo was all that great.

so it wont bug me much if the movie sucks

Halo had enough of a plot to make a movie out of it?

Videogames don't need plots to be made into movies usually someone will write a script that has nothing to do with the game whatsoever.

E.g. Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Mario etc

Halo had enough of a plot to make a movie out of it?

Basically on IMDB it says to the effect Master Chief and a platoon or whatever of Marines land on the ring looking for elements of the Covenant and to figure out why the Covenant is so interested in it. As the film goes on there are deeper and darker secerets no side could imagine.

Kinda standard plot line imo.