selnor said:
Reasonable said:
selnor said:
Reasonable said:
Halo could make a good movie - particularly given it copies movies a fair bit anyway. But to say it is the only such game is clearly very wrong.
Heck, Uncharted (1 or 2) is already a lot closer to a good movie than Halo, using even more aspects of action movie narrative style and character development than Halo. Uncharted would easily make a good movie - then again, like Halo, but even moreso, it copies movies first anyway so of course it would!
Bottom line, the only games that look like they would make good movies are those that basically copy movies for their narrative arch and style (Halo owes a tonne to Aliens for example) so I really don't see this as anything too shocking or even that good about the game in question.
The biggest challenge for a Halo movie (more than say Uncharted) is what to do with MC. If it's really going to be a good movie (by my exacting standards) then he needs to be a character with a strong arc and development. In the games he doesn't develop at all and of course you never see him! I'd bare in mind this means, if there is a movie, it's going to de-mystify his character. He will have to be shown (unless they director is feeling very brave) and that means he goes from being an icon to a character with a face played by a particular actor.
Anyway, watch District 9, if you haven't already, and you'll get a feel for what might have been around Halo.
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Perhaps I havent really made myself clear.
Uncharted would work well as a good action movie. A movie you watch and forget like Tomb Raider or National Treasure. Good fun, but forgetable.
Halo has the halls marks to be something great. The anonymousness of MC. That fully fledged dug out universe. 1 Epic story spanning 3 or movies. IT has easily the chance to blow the scifi audience away. It's story is very impressive. I have seen District 9 also. Really enjoyed it. That style would really suit Halo. And would really work.
I hope Peter Jackson can end up doing this.
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I disagree, Halo does not remotely have the depth, unless they massively, and I mean massively, flesh out the Universe to be anything more than a great fun action movie and a bit of a classic B SF movie.
It is pretty much 100% derivative as presented in the games and has no characters of note to develop without said wholesale changes.
MC as an anonymous character is a dead character in a film. It just plain doesn't work and certainly not for something like this.
Halo as a concept could be good but almost certainly nothing like 2001, Blade Runner, etc. SF classic good.
I think you're massively over egging the potential depth in the game world, which is actually (as is common in a videogame so I'm not knocking it in that regard) pretty shallow.
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Almost anyone interested in the Halo universe and it's story will tell you, MC is far from a dead character. In fact his character is fantastic. Especially the way he was brought through his training from an early age. The universe is fantastic to. You should really read the books.
The whole concept of Halo goes far beyond what you see in the games. The games touch on the Brute/Elite conflict. The forerunners arent really fleshed in the game. But all these things are fleshed out entirely in the community and books.
Believe me. Halo is much much bigger than the 3 games we have had so far.
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Trust me, I shouldn't read the books. My reading runs to the literature end of the scale and my film preferences to the 'serious' end of the scale. I've peeked at a Halo book and I'd just rip it apart - the prose and the contents both.
But as Khuutra says I'm not really the target audience. I like threads on films, as I put films ahead of videogames as an interest, which is why I couldn't resist peeking in, but really you're coming from a position as a fan of something (which is cool) and it's clear when you say great film you mean something very different from me.
So I'll leave things where they stand I think and get back to the threads on Inception.
