So it was recently revealed that Halo will not be taking to the silver screens after all. Long considered a shoo-in for the Hollywood treatment, the highly acclaimed FPS teetered incredibly closed on several occasions—the closest was the 2006 attempt which was later stripped down and remade into District 9. Is it really that shocking that Microsoft’s shelved yet another Halo attempt at the movies?
Yes; if you were following the rumour mill of late. Following a week stuffed with convincingly legitimate Halo movie soundbites—Ridley Scott’s and Paul Scheuring’s involvement etc., expectations for a full out confirmation were high. The January 14th backtrack was, in retrospect, a massive excitement killer.
However, long answer short—not really. For a firm fervidly pushing living room content, funding a movie (for now at least) would fall somewhat outside that field of interest. Sure, a firm the size of Microsoft can definitely pursue more than two massive projects at once but with the company still working hard to consolidate its TV side of things; it might be prudent to perhaps take one thing at a time. In addition, with a TV series/collaborative effort with Steven Spielberg on Halo already in the works, the Halo movie might have been strike off the to-do list to avert a potential conflict of interest.
Does this mean we won’t see a Halo film in the foreseeable future? Unlikely. A Halo movie has always been on the cards, and the TV series with subsequent video game iterations might just build to that. A Halo movie at some point in time would probably do the franchise a lot of good but with everything going on right now—chasing the TV dream and a new Halo game this year, indefinite postponement seems to be the best course of action.
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