Live Action ‘Halo: Reach’ – Birth of a Spartan Trailer (Long Version)

Posted by keithpatrick on Apr 29, 2010 in News

The teams behind Halo are no strangers to creating some very cool live-action short movies to promote upcoming game titles. District 9 director Neil Blomkamp made one for Halo 3 that sparked hopes that a movie version of the popular game would finally happen. Then another one was made when Halo 3: ODST was on the way.

The game is a prequel, taking place in the year 2552, right before the events of the first Halo. You’ll play as part of the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) team known as Noble Team, which is composed of multiple super-soldier Spartans back when they were a lot less of a rare breed.

Now grab your Halo shirt and get ready for the beta starting next month!

The Halo Movie Isn’t Dead Just Yet

Posted by keithpatrick on Apr 9, 2010 in Movies

Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor insists that the Halo movie will rise again. We’re still a little bitter after Neill Blomkamp’s version was killed.

The movie version of Halo has almost happened before — Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp could tell you all about that — but so far said project just hasn’t panned out. Still, Frank O’Connor, the Master Chief of the Halo world, says the film will happen. Eventually.

O’Connor addressed the issue at the MI6 Conference in San Francisco last week during a session called “Extending Your Game Beyond the Package.”

“We’re going to make a movie when the time is right,” he said. “We own the IP. If we want to make a movie, the scale of all the other stuff that we do changes dramatically. We make tens and tens of millions of dollars on ancillary stuff, toys, apparel, music and publishing. If we do a movie all of that will grow exponentially. We have some numbers if we do a movie, but it changes everything. It also changes our target and age demographic.”

So there you have it. Not only is O’Connor certain that a Halo movie is going to happen at some point, but it makes absolute financial sense to do one too. What, you think Microsoft is in this for the fun of it?

The question, is Master Chief still relevant nowadays, or have you moved on?

Live Action Halo: ODST Trailer

Posted by keithpatrick on Sep 4, 2009 in News

So far everybody that has seen this new Halo trailer has the same response, it’s pure awesome wrapped up in bacon made into a short movie!

Also, I now some people asked what language is that, so I did some looking and found a transcript of the trailer.

(translated from Russian) {The video starts at Stark’s funeral proceedings. Tarkov is seen in the background.}

UNSC Officer: Present arms!

{Marines raised their assault rifles.}

UNSC Officer: Fire!

{The video then skips to Tarkov who apparently joined the ODST, having his head shaven by an officer. The video then skips to a scene where a group of men stood in a file. The UNSC Officer yells in front of Tarkov.}

UNSC Officer: “We are ODSTs!”

{The scene changes to an obstacle course. Tarkov performs a commando crawl and a UNSC Officer follows him, yelling.}

UNSC Officer: “Do you want to die? Do you! Faster! Go go go!”

{As Tarkov took a dive in the obstacle course, the scene changes to him being dropped into an unknown planet. Several HEVs are seen. As soon as he hit the ground, his HEV’s chute opened. Tarkov along with several other ODSTs fire their SMGs. A Brute Minor knocked Tarkov to the ground, knocking his helmet off. The Brute growls at him and soon after died after a Banshee struck down by a rocket hit the Brute from behind. Tarkov, lying on the mud, stared at the open space. The scene changes to a funeral proceeding with Tarkov, now looking older, along with several other ODSTs standing beside him. A song sung in Gaelic fills the background.}

The Song sung in Gaelic: “And my army of brothers went over the hilltops, drenched in blood we may be… but fighting is all left to me… Together with my army of brothers… down we fall… darkness in all… through hell!”

Steven Spielberg Producing Halo Movie?

Posted by keithpatrick on Aug 11, 2009 in Movies, News

IESB is reporting the rumor that director Steven Spielberg is in talks to produce a Halo movie.

IESB has learned exclusively (believe me this is solid and I’ve confirmed it three times over with studio executives and our close ties to CAA) that one of the biggest producers in Hollywood history is currently in active negotiations to develop the feature film adaptation and no it’s not Jerry Bruckheimer or Peter Jackson. It’s the man behind Jaws, E.T., Indiana Jones and Transformers, Mr. Steven Spielberg.

Also, Spielberg is a huge gaming fan. His prodigal star Shia LaBeouf has been quoted talking about Spielberg being stuck on the 15th level of BioShock recently,

“I get there and stick my head in to ask if he’s ready-and this is classic Spielberg-he says, ‘Nope, Shia. I’m trapped!’ ” LaBeouf then starts playing both parts-concerned protégé and faraway mentor:

“You’re trapped? Steven, what are you talking about?”

“I’m trapped back here. Follow my voice.”

“Where are you?”

“Over here… Here… Here!”

LaBeouf kept following the calls until he got to the director’s office. And there was the master himself: shoes off, socks on, dressed in shooting gear, but sitting behind a computer, stuck on the fifteenth level of a first-person shooter called BioShock.

“This is like months to get to this level, and he can’t get past this one little mysterious spider god, and he’s losing his mind. He’s like, ‘I can’t do it, Shia! I can’t do it.’ “

This is good news –

Munich
Shrek
Saving Private Ryan
Cape Fear
Back to the Future
The Goonies
Gremlins

I think he’s got the chops to pull it off.