Halo: The Movie

Weta studios has been hard at work ramping up for a full-length feature film based on the game HALO. You remember Weta from their work with Peter Jackson on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. You remember HALO from the reason your girlfriend left you. Put these two things together and you can of course imagine the swirling vortex of awesome that would ensue.

Now add Peter Jackson in as the producer and you’ve got a movie that will just plain rock your face off.

Check out the Halo footage here.



Acclaimed commercial director, Neil Blomkamp is directing the shorts and is set to direct the feature if it makes it to production. Here's a video he directed. . It features a girl with loads of tatts driving an M1-A1 tank through downtown streets while wearing a half-shirt. This guy clearly knows awesome when he sees it.




(That’s a real, live person in the back in the image above. IT SHOULD BE ME!!!)

As you can see Weta, Jackson and co. are moving ahead at full speed sans studio funding. Jackson could probably fund this project (and buy NATO) with his loose change after cleaning house with the LOTR films. But why should he have to?

Let me just say right now that if no studio comes forward to front the cash for this after green-lighting such titles as Bratz and I Know Who Killed Me, there should be a congressional investigation.

In other news, Ewe Bol will be releasing his latest STUDIO-FUNDED film, Bloodrayne 2 soon which will feature a bunch of cowboy vampires. That’s right, cowboy vampires. I repeat again, cowboy vampires.

Cowboy vampires.

[[UPDATE]]

The movie is off for now for some damn reason. It appears the studios and Jackson and co. can't agree on the budget. Clearly there is only one thing to do here; kill Ewe Bol. Makes sense to me.