This Halo Movie Had Better Be Awesome
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We hear about the Halo movie every once and a while. Mentions of the Halo movie have become synonymous with “eventually” and “we’ll probably never see it.” The Halo movie is like a submarine coming up every once and a while for a little bit before it goes back down and we don’t hear anything anymore. But, maybe today is different!
Mmm, Master Chief
Our friends at ThatVideoGameBlog.com let us know that screenplay writer Stuart Beattie, who also penned the screenplay for the in-production Gears of War movie, has come up with his version of a Halo movie. The writer had 3 months during the writer’s strike to write a script, and he came up with a story following the Halo novel The Fall of Reach, a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved that debuted on the first Xbox almost 7 years ago.
The script starts from when the Master Chief, whom many fans know as John, was taken from his family as a child and forced into a secretive super-marine project. Stuart Beattie was willing to share some great tidbits about the script:
Anyone can connect with a kid kidnapped from his own home. You’re along for that journey. The Covenant comes along halfway through that movie. That gives you half the movie to really get to know everyone and care about everyone. (You can read the whole interview with Stuart Beattie at GameDaily.com.)
Since I heard about the Halo movie being possible, I was ecstatic about it. Back in May, I wrote a post, called That Halo Movie We’re Still Waiting For, which explained what would need to be set in place for a Halo movie to be successful. Now, I am hoping this script will break the unfortunate tradition of bad game-to-movie adaptations. Given the effort of Stuart Beattie, I think this script is the best yet.
I also mentioned the Max Payne movie, coming out this month, that might be decent. Bullet time has always been a fan favorite.
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