SciFied: Untitled Feature Length 'Halo' Project to be Produced by Ridley Scott?

Since that particular tweet, Production Weekly's twitter has not clarified if they really meant the Halo TV series that Steven Spielberg was doing. Which wouldn't make sense really, because Spielberg is producing that, and so Scott and Spielberg can't both produce the same Halo thing, and so.. Hm.

Ridley Scott's last couple of big movies include Prometheus, Robin Hood, and of course Aliens and such, etc. Prometheus 2 still seems to be in the works, so math considered, this Halo movie would then come out after Prometheus 2, somewhere past 2015. Or you know, whatever. And then an upcoming Blade Runner thing.

Those tweets also mention that a Paul Scheurig is writing the Halo movie, who apparently wrote FOX's Prison Break show, and some Adrien Brody/Forest Whitaker vehicle. :/

Considering that Halo 5 is still absolutely still coming out somewhere near the end of 2014, a nice epilogue or DLC pack thing would be nice to keep the Halo'ness going into 2015, alongside this movie and such. Or like, Spartan Ops?.

And you know, all things considered, I would much rather a movie that was made by Scott, all bad-ass and Prometheusy, than whatever Peter Jackson/Neil Blompkamp were doing. Hobbit, District 9, Elysium?. Mm, Prometheus is really fucking "bad-ass", comparatively.

You mean Halo 5 is still coming out right? Because if not dude they made Halo 4, and it wasn't bad.

@blu3v3nom07 said:

Uh....

Elysium was kind of the best Halo movie ever made. Prometheus... yeah. Not so much.

As far as news of Ridley Scott going near Halo; why the hell not? It's not my favourite franchise. If he wants to ruin it by all means.

@evilsbane: Yea, alright. Thanks. Go get yourself a gold sticker, because those are pretty good. :D

We've been yanked around about potential Halo movie for goddamn ever now. Does anyone at this point care?

@oldirtybearon said:

I personally really liked Prometheus.

@jsnyder82: All of Prometheus' issues were outside of Ridley Scott's purview. Atmospherically, tonally, that film's direction was on point. Its unfortunate script did it no favors.

Put a writer on the project who can handle both world-building and interpersonal throughlines of tension (like Alex Garland, who penned the original Blomkamp script) and suddenly things get interesting.

I really think Ridley Scott could nail the look of Halo. To be honest though I'm getting real sick of reading about the halo move. I'll get excited when I read that they've actually starting shooting. Until then it's all just talk and likely to fall through like all the other attempts to make a Halo movie.

Elysium was alright, it was nothing spectacular though. It was no District 9.

Hmmmmm. I could get behind this. But like everything else Halo movie related, I'll just chalk it up to pure rumour for now. It actually makes me happy that Microsoft is such a hard ass about this movie. Do it when it's done right. Cause video game movies have rarely been good. Any one actually excited for Need for Speed?

@baillie: My main problem with the film was how extremely on-the-nose it was with its politics. District 9 wasn't exactly subtle either, but Elysium...man, biggest dissapointment of 2013 for me.

How are Prometheus and a Halo move even related?

I'm one of the people who loved the movie so I guess we won't see eye to eye.

And Ridley Scott... I guess he ruins a lot of stuff? I think he's one of the best directors of all time and he has great range. I wouldn't be surprised if his Halo movie would be great. But who knows if that even happens.

Isn't he one of those Spielberg type dudes who has a producer credit on a whole bunch of stuff that he probably didn't have that much to do with?

Yes basically. He produces a lot of TV shows and movies. I don't know how much he's involved in them all, but yeah.

Producing being the key word.

@jsnyder82: Hey! I kinda enjoyed it too. But it was a massive disappointing coming from the Director of Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner etc..

Since no one's out and out saying it, I guess I will:

Prometheus was a terrible movie, and you're all funky for liking it.

Alright, with that out of the way, let's talk about the Halo movie... It's not happening.

@artisanbreads said:

Ridley Scott has a fantastic artistic eye and can make a man pooping look good. His blind spot is story and script choice. Prometheus was the biggest example of that considering they took a decent-to-good Alien script and turned it into, well, Prometheus.

It looked amazing; Prometheus I mean. I don't think anyone would deny that. However Prometheus is the perfect example of when style overtakes substance. It's a box of nothing wrapped up in fantastic visuals. Like a hollow chocolate bunny. Considering Scott's history I'm not sure he'd have the awareness or even understand what's appealing about Halo and its lore. My guess is he'd do what he did to Alien Prequel; look at the script, decide that's not what he wanted to do, throw it out, and get Damon Lindelof to write a much shittier version and call it, I don't know, The Great Journey.

Elysium was a pretty sweet movie but fuck, that shaky cam absolutely RUINED every action sequence in the film. Blomkamp is terrible with those pieces.

@bigjeffrey:

Oh, THAT's what a glint-suppressing honeycomb looks like.

Sounds cool. It'll probably come out after every other video game movie in the works for the past decade.

@blu3v3nom07: I love Ridley Scott, he's made some of the greatest movies ever but dude if you think Prometheus was better then District 9 you are cuh-razy!

That is a pretty great summation. Gorgeous movie but not much else going for it.

I'd be up for seeing what he'd do with Halo though, I think even with his misses he's still a hell of a film maker and I'd rather have him on it then some hack. Still disappointed we didn't get a Blomkamp Halo though that would have been really cool.

This is interesting but worrying. Though I'm always worried about the future of Halo I guess. And rating a movie because you consider it to be more "badass" than another producers' work doesn't fill me with faith.

Prometheus was entertaining and nice looking but also a horribly flawed and shallow movie. I guess something similar could be said about Elysium but I think it was a better movie.

I guess nothing is even in the works at all.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/01/14/microsoft-reiterates-that-no-halo-movie-is-in-the-works

@blu3v3nom07 said:

Untitled Feature Length 'Halo' Project to be Produced by Ridley Scott? | http://t.co/QZ1iRnM1Xphttp://t.co/uUzFT2MrTE via @scifiedcom

— Production Weekly (@prodweek) January 12, 2014

SciFied: Untitled Feature Length 'Halo' Project to be Produced by Ridley Scott?

Since that particular tweet, Production Weekly's twitter has not clarified if they really meant the Halo TV series that Steven Spielberg was doing. Which wouldn't make sense really, because Spielberg is producing that, and so Scott and Spielberg can't both produce the same Halo thing, and so.. Hm.

Ridley Scott's last couple of big movies include Prometheus, Robin Hood, and of course Aliens and such, etc. Prometheus 2 still seems to be in the works, so math considered, this Halo movie would then come out after Prometheus 2, somewhere past 2015. Or you know, whatever. And then an upcoming Blade Runner thing.

Those tweets also mention that a Paul Scheurig is writing the Halo movie, who apparently wrote FOX's Prison Break show, and some Adrien Brody/Forest Whitaker vehicle. :/

Considering that Halo 5 is still absolutely still coming out somewhere near the end of 2014, a nice epilogue or DLC pack thing would be nice to keep the Halo'ness going into 2015, alongside this movie and such. Or like, Spartan Ops?.

And you know, all things considered, I would much rather a movie that was made by Scott, all bad-ass and Prometheusy, than whatever Peter Jackson/Neil Blompkamp were doing. Hobbit, District 9, Elysium?. Mm, Prometheus is really fucking "bad-ass", comparatively.

TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE!!!

The feature will be released later this year and will be executive produced by Scott and Scott Free TV President David Zucker. Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (Battlestar Galactica, Heroes) will direct the feature.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/03/ridley-scott-and-microsoft-team-for-halo-digital-feature

Hell yea! I wonder how long its gonna be, then. Xbox Live at least, right?. Still cool.

man, I feel like I'm time traveling..... wasn't Ridley Scott one of the rumored directors involved of Halo movie back in 2004? I just recalled even DelToro talked about redesigning the suit was an influence behind Hellboy 2's Johann Krauss.