14 DAY TRIAL // As Halo 3 launches this fall to be ending the trilogy, gamers are losing faith of a movie based on the title, with every passing day. However, producers haven't lost their faith, as famed director of King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson, spoke openly about the stalled project in the May issue of Onfilm Magazine.
Jackson claimed he expects the forthcoming release of Halo 3 to prompt studios 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures to reconsider the project, as Stuff.co.nz posts, after the stall coinciding with the selection of first-time director Neill Blomkamp, who was appointed for the project: "We wouldn't want to do it with anybody else," said Jackson. "It'll be Neill's call."
These comments sound quite similar to another of the man's statements, issued last fall by Wingnut Films, Jackson's production studio, related to the stalled Halo 3 movie project, as 1UP points out: "We are fully supportive of Director Neill Blomkamp's vision of the film. Neill is a tremendously gifted filmmaker and his preliminary work on Halo is truly awe-inspiring."
Good to see that they haven't forgotten about the film and that they're considering to raise it from the ashes, but nobody is actually confirming that production of the movie has a go. All we heard today was that Jackson fully supports the project in Neill Blomkamp's vision. I guess it's one step in the right direction, but a rather small one at that.
Even if they do decide to start shooting the movie again, we surely won't be seeing any heavily armored Spartans on the big silver screen any time soon, that's for sure. You know how much these things can take. Unless of course, they haven't started working on it already... And yes, it's going to be a lot of computer work and less actual shooting, but the computer work is going to be based on the shooting right?