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  1. 10-06-2005, 20:54 #1
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    Default Peter Jackson to produce Halo

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4311756.stm
    Could be one of the few game tie-ins I'll be looking forward to. The mind boggles at the thought.

    Edit: maybe I was a little overenthusiastic; the article states he and his company will produce, and a director is yet to be named. Changed topic title. Still sounds neat though.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Video Gaming moves closer and closer to mainstream entertainment every year.

    No longer is it a "toy", but a major hobby and accepted form of adult entertainment.

    I like this.


    It will be very nice to see a director contribute TW, eh?
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Seriously? The director of "Dead Alive" and "The Frighteners"? All right!
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Kick ass
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Check out the Halo forums

    http://www.bungie.net

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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Quote Originally Posted by meatwad
    Seriously? The director of "Dead Alive" and "The Frighteners"? All right!
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Besides financial reasons, I don't see a purpose to making a videogame into a movie.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    I do see a reason,I mean come on, aren't some of you too thinking that the Baldurs Gate story was a lot better plotted than LotR? Aren't there some others like me, thinking that there should be UT movies about beeing one of these "mercenaries"?

    In general a computer game is not really different from a movie - an interactive movie in which YOU can decide whatever you want to do.
    Either way i would find a movie about 'David Gemmel' books more interesting, although you can have a lot of your own stuff if you just take a simple action game on what your movie is based on, there is a chance that it will be getting a brainless shooting orgy...
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Speaking of which, they better not **** up the Max Payne movie. I loved that game, and it would translate very well into a complete story- it even comes complete with an extended metaphor. Granted, the second game was atrocious (Rockstar did to Remedy what Activision did to EA) but then there doesn't have to be a sequel. After all, Ragnarok is over.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    There will be a Doom movie as well

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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    With actual first person sequences, judging by the trailer. For some reason I'm not too excited about that one.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    I thought he was just producing it?

    I vote for a Elderscrolls movie. Oblivion...? :)
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Yeah. I edited my post just after submitting.
    Edit: ah, so I can edit the name of the topic? Done.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    There is supposed to be MechWarrior/Battletech movie being made.
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Wow, lots of them comming out eh?

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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    They're bringing the Flood to Isengard! They're bringing the Flood to Isengard-gard-gard.

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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Quote Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon
    There will be a Doom movie as well
    Where the demons from hell are really zombies and the Marines are a SWAT team... Why must they butcher it?

    Can you say resident evil 3?


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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    Quote Originally Posted by Martinus
    There is supposed to be MechWarrior/Battletech movie being made.
    If they don't **** it up, i'm looking very forward to this one!
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    Default Re: Peter Jackson to direct Halo

    The guy who made Indpendence Day and 8 legged freaks is directing it...
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