Sony is using Sony Pictures/Colombia Pictures to make an uncharted movie. the director has been chosen and the project is green lighted, right now an script is being made and soon will be casting. expect filming by early next year and either an 2011 holiday's release along side Uncharted 3 (perfect timing really, and i believe Sony wants that to happen). or an 2012 hit. either way i hope its good and they use good actor for Nathan Drake because an Uncharted 2 movie would be epic. 

“I don't get why Sony uses both - gaming and movie division. Make a blockbuster Uncharted movie, bundle it with PS3 and game would be a nice start…”

That’s not how movies are made, especially not big blockbuster movies, that involve a lot of risk of exposure to failure.  Sure, the $150-200 million (production cost) movie could be a huge hit, and make $ 500 million at the box office, or it could do mediocre numbers and deliver only $250-300 million…or, it could bomb horribly and not even make its production cost back.  Believe it or not, there is far more risk in a big budget movie, then a big budget game.  In the specific case of Halo, if M$ is the funding source for the project, great, they have a lot of resources to throw at it, but they will have ZERO technical expertise in making the film, and if they are partnered with a studio…how tied is that studio to the success of the film/franchise, when that studio probably has 4-5 other blockbuster franchises on its ticker?  George Lucas could do it, since he was a filmmaker, and James Cameron could do it on certain projects of his (he spent a lot of start-up on working on pre-production stuff for Avatar, but the bulk of the film’s production cost came from other sources)

Legendary Pictures, of course has the legendary model where they provide a bulk of the funding to Warner Bros to make the film, and it has been very successful for them, minus a few bumps in the road (Superman Returns, Lady in the Water, and Jonah Hex, for example).  This is basically the role I think 343 Industries is going to serve as for the production of the films.  M$ will provide a lot of funding, and the partnered studio will come to the table with the rest.  That is the only way for them to avoid the problem of the studio not getting any of the ancillary pie of Halo Universe.  Blizzard probably had the same problem with World of Warcraft, since these IPs don’t need films to be successful, so why would Blizzard or M$ give a studio a pie of profits from games, books, clothing, toys, etc?  This was 75% of Marvel’s business model, before they got into making their own films, so for a franchise like Halo, you’re talking something on the order of $200-300 million (if not more, and excluding a game of course) for stuff tied to a film.

I think a movie would be stellar, but honestly, I think they are exactly correct in saying something on Showtime or HBO, like a Band of Brothers, would be a better cost model.

I think the time of a Halo movie has come and passed. The best time would've been between Halo 2 and 3 (closer to the launch of Halo 3) which is the time period where I feel the Halo franchise was strongest. With the absolutely explosive success of Halo 2 and the incredible hype and anticipation of the first "next-gen" Halo, and names like Peter Jackson tied to the project, the movie would've been an almost guaranteed box office success.

Now that District 9 has been made (by the same director chosen for the Halo movie), the human-covenant conflict and relationship in a Halo movie would seem mundane and boring in comparison to the brilliance of District 9. Plus the style of direction in District 9 would've set Halo apart from all the other video game movies and really made it stand out. Now that it has been done it'll just seem like it's piggy backing on the success of District 9 as a sci-fi/action movie.

I got to read the first 35 pages of script for the Peter Jackson movie.  And I can guarantee you it wasn't going to be a garbage movie like the poster ^ stated.  

Who knows what form the Halo movie franchise will take now that he is no longer going to be part of the movie.  But I am 99% certain that Microsoft will not let it go down the useual video game movie route.  Halo is simply to important to them (Microsoft) to let it suck.  And I think that most people here would agree with that comment.  

They would be foolish to turn a billion dollar gaming franchise into a shitty movie.  That would ruin any hope of their being a sequel and more profit.  Not to mention possibly alienate gamers.  If the movie is a gigantic success, it would only propel more Halo Games sold.

Will be? Their should already be one damned...

i'll probably watch this movie when it comes to netflix, but i'm expecting total garbage.

What are you talking about? I fail to see how the two are similar other than they both involve aliens and the fact that the Halo movie would've been directed by the same director. Everything else is a stretch and that's putting it mildly, imo.

It's not just that they involve aliens. A ton of stories involve aliens but not many give the aliens an explained motive or show them as being individual conscious beings. Halo and District 9 both did this. In Halo the Covenant are a collective group of different races and they don't all see eye to eye and an internal conflict is present. Throw in the flood and the forerunner lore and the humans have an interesting role in all of it as well. If the movie were not to explore that it would make the Halo movie a generic "us against them" situation done countless times. If it does (which no doubt Neil Bloomkamp would've explored as he had in District 9) then it will just seem like it's riding on the coat tails of District 9's success. And if a poor job is done in the exploration of these elements the movie will flat out suck.

As per the style of direction, having watched the shorts produced by Neil and the similarly toned trailers for ODST and Reach there's no denying that the directing style used in District 9 fits Halo like the white glove fits O.J. Simpson.

I'm not trying to say no matter what the movie will suck. I'd for sure be one of the first in line on opening night to see it. But it just seems like a) the brand is not as strong as it was pre-Halo 3 and b) the movie is going to draw comparisons due to its past production ties, which will only hurt its image.