[Deepblue]

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=biggorilla

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to partner with two tremendous Producers from Universal, Mary Parent and Scott Stuber. In the short time they’ve been on board, Mary and Scott have joined with Peter Schlessel to accomplish unimaginably wonderful things. Example? They’ve secured an Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film.

And that Executive Producer’s name is Peter Jackson.

I’ll give you a second to process. If you’re having a strong, emotional reaction, don’t panic. When I heard the news it took me the better part of a day just to stop smiling.

Yes. The Peter Jackson, Executive Producing the Halo film.

Needless to say I and the rest of Bungie are positively incontinent (Marty especially). But what really knocks us on our asses is we’re also getting the combined talent of the mighty men and women of WETA in the bargain. From fabricating Covenant weapons to building life-sized Forerunner structures to accomplishing shot after shot of complex live-action/CG integration – simply put, there’s no group of people we’d rather have realize the Halo universe on screen.

[mr. burns] Excellent [/mr. burns]

[karajorma]

Hmmmmmm. WETA doing the special effects. I like the sound of that.

[mikhael]

Wow. The Halo movie might actually do something the game failed to do: be interesting, entertaining, and dare I say it, good.

[Corsair]

Or at least be even more really, really, ridiculously good-looking [/zoolander]

[IceFire]

Awesome...I have skepticism about video game movies but that is fading...

[BlackDove]

Urge to kill... rising.... rising...

[StratComm]

Not as meaningful as if he were producing it.  The man has more truckloads of money than you can count since the success of LotR, so exec producing something isn't saying all that much.

However, Halo, if done correctly, has the potential to be really epic (unlike, say, Wing Commander).  Maybe he'll see that and make it live up to my expectations.

[Bobboau]

was I the only one who read the title as "Peter Jackson to be executed for Halo movie." ?

[Drew]

the halo fanbase cant be terribly hard to please - not looking forward to a lame movie with some special eye candy

[Rictor]

What exactly does the producer do? I've never been able to figure that one out. I don't know whether Jackson position as executive producer (even if I understood the producer's role, where does the exective producer fit in?) will translate into any creative input, or what.

[Deepblue]

"Executive Producer to help guarantee the creative integrity and technical excellence of the Halo film."

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Drew
the halo fanbase cant be terribly hard to please - not looking forward to a lame movie with some special eye candy

I would like to think that I am part of that fanbase (in some respect) and I enjoyed both Halos for the plot and story.  Bungie does a pretty good job of building a universe and telling a story inside of it.  Its not the greatest ever told...but as FPS's go...its a might bit more complex than say...Doom.

[Night Hammer]

thats awesome



id almost say I want an MGS movie, but i dont think they could pull it off well

[BlackDove]

Originally posted by IceFire
its a might bit more complex than say...Doom.

That's not much of a compliment though.

[Deepblue]

It is one of the best FPSs of recent times though.

[Goober5000]

As a rule I don't like FPSes.  Halo was the exception - because of the story.

(Of course, it probably helped that I read The Fall of Reach first and that I could easily picture making Halo missions in Freespace. )

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Deepblue
It is one of the best FPSs of recent times though.

On consoles.

Its pretty substandard when compared against most FPSes on PC. System Shock 2, No One Lives Forever,  SHOGO, and Deus Ex were all better and more innovative in their various ways than HALO was. Halo is most notable, IMO, for its addition of a secondary weapon system (grenades).

[Deepblue]

Eric Nuyland is a great writer, which is why I look forward to the PLOT of Gears of War.

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by mikhael

On consoles.

Its pretty substandard when compared against most FPSes on PC. System Shock 2, No One Lives Forever,  SHOGO, and Deus Ex were all better and more innovative in their various ways than HALO was. Halo is most notable, IMO, for its addition of a secondary weapon system (grenades).

It is not substandard when compared to such games. While it did not innovate much, it took elements of many games and combined them into something greater. It did innovate the role of vehicular combat in an FPS. To date I have not seen a better system in any other game. Then you have co-op. That's another one. Not to mention the perfectly balanced multiplayer.

[Charismatic]

Sounds great. I want to play Halo 1\2 and 3. But id need to switch systems, which i cannot afford ATM..sadly. Iv played H1 a few times with friends, but nothing more. Was great tho.

Weta?