14 DAY TRIAL // Recent news has Sam Raimi confirmed as the director of a movie based on World of Warcraft, which has been long in development but has not seen any actual scenes filmed.
But as one videogame-based movie gets a director, another loses one, with Neill Blomkamp confirming that he is no longer involved in the creation of the Halo movies.
Talking to a movie-oriented blog at the Comic Con in San Diego, Neill Blomkamp said that “I probably wouldn't do Halo if it was offered to me. But creatively, I would like to do it. It's kind of like I'd be sad to not work on it, but I would still say no. I worked on it for five months… I put a lot of sort of sweat and blood into Halo. Creatively, it's very compelling. I love it. But, when you work that long on something and you have it bottom out and collapse…I mean, I got District 9 out of it, I think I'm probably better off because it's more of a personal film. But yeah, I love the world of Halo. I don't think I would go back there.”
Blomkamp was initially attached to the project way back in 2006 when Microsoft, Universal and Fox announced that they planned to create a movie version of the Halo franchise. Peter Jackson was named as being the executive producer and he commissioned Blomkamp to create several short movies for the launch of Halo 3.
Even if they were well received by fans of the series, Universal and Fox still expressed their lack of faith in the South African director. Since then, he has helmed another project, called District 9, and it seems that he will not be returning to Halo, which means that the project is on hold once again.