But didn’t mention when, but probably after 2012 when the world ends and everything is reborn. Harold Goldberg carries an article at New York Videogame Critics Circle, which is featured in Kotaku. In the article he talked about an interview with Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor. The first thing O’Connor said when they sat down was “There will be a Halo movie”.

Back years ago, Peter Jackson was the director, and Denzel Washington was the star. Gone were the days. But funnily the talk is still there. Here’s an interesting event that happened after the Future of Television East conference last week. After the panel, a high level network executive came up up to O’Connor and said, “We want to do something with Halo.”
O’Connor shot back, “Bring piles of money.” The executive, taken aback, responded, “For Halo, we will.”

O’Connor told Goldberg that everyone in Hollywood, as high up as the people up there in the big shot companies wanted to have a slice of Halo movie.

“Everyone wanted to do a Halo movie, the director, Microsoft, the highest placed people at movie companies.”

So what happened? “It was the lawyers,” said O’Connor. “When they went behind closed doors with the contracts, things fell apart.” O’Connor said that the primary sticking point was the fact that Microsoft owns all rights to Halo, and that means licensing as well. “The problem was that the movie company couldn’t make any money beyond the movie.”

Hollywood is populated by a weird breed of bean counters and lawyers. They expect, said O’Connor, to make money even on a movie that bombs at the box office, not only through DVD sales, but through licensing products with both alacrity and occasional abandon. They couldn’t do that with Halo, so the project grew fallow.

O’Connor is adamant when he says Microsoft would happily permit any prominent director to shine in his or her own way on a Halo film. “If Danny Boyle wants to make a Danny Boyle-style movie, that’s great. Let Danny Boyle be Danny Boyle. We would not constrain a director.”

But perhaps the smartest place for a Halo project would be at a network like Showtime or HBO. “We’d love to see Halo as a television series. Look what HBO did with Band of Brothers or even Rome. Something like that would work because the Halo universe is so vast.” In a miniseries or a longer running series, fans would be treated to deeper, more explorative narrative that drills down deep into the Halo mythos – if the writers and directors were intelligent enough.

Then, he said it again: “There will be a Halo movie. We don’t need a movie. But we’d like a movie. We’d like the moms of gamers to see the movies because they would love our characters. Maybe we’ll even fund it ourselves.”

SOURCE via Kotaku