Time for a real topic

Director Neil Blomkamp is interviewed by Creativity Online:

Question: Where, in the grand scheme of what you had done so far on the Halo film, did these shorts stack up? Where did they come from?

This is the first I've really spoken about those pieces. There's such a massive misconception about what those are. In essence, those pieces have zero to do with the film. Like less than zero. I worked on the film for a few months and we developed a lot of things during that time, and none of that has anything to do with the shorts. Long, long long after the film died, Bungie and Microsoft asked me if I wanted to be involved in the Halo 3 promotional stuff, just because I knew all of the guys at Bungie, and I was like Yeah, sure, that sounds like fun. I went about starting to make those three pieces back with a lot of the guys from Weta who had made the original film. All of the design and everything that we'd made for the film is just locked up in some locker somewhere, so all of the stuff for the shorts is specifically for the short films, from scratch. It's basically, I guess, viral advertising for Halo 3, it's one of the many different promotional pieces you find out there.

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Question: We heard you were off the film and it was surprising. How did that happen?

Answer: The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It's not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren't getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it's a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it's been dead, ever since then. I'll be curious to see what happens.

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Question: Was that how the movie would look?

Answer: Yeah, I was going to push that as far as [I could] until the studios kind of threw a noose around me. I was going to go as far with that as I possibly could. I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you've seen in a while. And Universal was on board with that. I don't really remember what Fox thought about it, but Universal seemed down with it. It would have been cool, it would have been a unique take on things, science fiction in a dirty, organic way.

http://creativity-online.com/?action=news:article&newsId=120925

This vid I never saw from any of the promotional videos:

such a shame

That's a slightly-slanted view of events. He forgets to mention a climbing budget and the various points arrangements.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But seriously I´m not sad at all, with the right director and cast it could have been cool but most vidoegame movies (without Angelina Jolie :) suck, what I would have loved would have been a Kevin Smith (Clerks) Halo movie, three hours of Master Chief hanging out infront of a drugstore with Samus and Kratos talking about movies women and other videogames... that would have rocked.

that video is the shit..........

Wow, that video was so godawful I'm glad this was canceled. It would have destroyed the franchise.

The video is great, one of the best things i have ever seen.

dont know if kicking him off the is a bad thing, but he said the movie has been dead since last year, i dont belive that.

Imdb:http://imdb.com/title/tt0464037/
Comments:Fox has purchased filming rights and says the project will go on
Status Updated:5 July 2007 and suposed to come out 2009


seems Fox and Petter jackson will continue this: hopes it will be better then what i have seen so far.

That brute looked like a wookie, no master chief


but it still looked awesome