What a difference a $200 mil opening day sales makes
Dreamworks making Halo Movie based on The Fall of Reach?Insiders tell Vulture that DreamWorks Pictures is renewing its efforts to obtain the rights and revive the project, which has been in a state of suspended animation since late 2006 . . .
. . . Despite Spielberg’s status as Hollywood’s top producer and his ability to attract the best original scripts, DreamWorks has been focusing on using novelizations of the video game - the literary equivalent of Purina PuppyChow. It seems strange for Hollywood’s most successful filmmaker to rely on such lowbrow source material, but it's actually a shrewd way to dodge the knotty legal issues and bitter recriminations surrounding Halo’s development at Universal and Fox.
Except that pretty much everyone I know who's read The Fall of Reach thinks it's a damn good read and would make a pretty good starting point for any movie verison of Halo.
. . . Despite Spielberg’s status as Hollywood’s top producer and his ability to attract the best original scripts, DreamWorks has been focusing on using novelizations of the video game - the literary equivalent of Purina PuppyChow. It seems strange for Hollywood’s most successful filmmaker to rely on such lowbrow source material, but it's actually a shrewd way to dodge the knotty legal issues and bitter recriminations surrounding Halo’s development at Universal and Fox.
Except that pretty much everyone I know who's read The Fall of Reach thinks it's a damn good read and would make a pretty good starting point for any movie verison of Halo.