Halo Coming to the Silver Screen
Halo, the great XBox game, is going to Hollywood. Here is the inside story from Bungie. The hollywood take on the story can be found here. Microsoft traded some of its cash for creative rights on the movie. Think it will work out? Can Microsoft and Bungie end up making a video game movie that doesn't suck? They don't have a lot of great competition. Let's see. Mario Brothers, Lara Croft, Street Fighter. You get the idea. Halo could make a really great setting for a movie ala Aliens or something. Then again, it could be as bad as any of the recent video game converts. Only time will tell.
-Godshatter
Comments
There have been a lot of movies based on video games. How successful have they been? My impression "not very," but Hollywood keeps making them.
Posted by: Bob Hawkins | August 26, 2005 01:58 PM
A movie can fail pretty badly in US theaters and still make an overall profit. Between foreign box office, DVD, pay-per-view, cable TV, network TV, airlines, books, soundtrack CDs, even schools and prisons, the ways to make money from a crap movie are almost endless.
While this is nice if you are the producer, it doesn't provide much incentive to take the extra time and effort to create something terrific.
Posted by: director | August 27, 2005 06:45 AM