Brave Art

Bungie Studios, director Neill Blomkamp, Weta Workshop, Origami Digital LLC and HT Limited have collaborated to make 3 short Halo clips.

Part One

Part 2

Part 3

Let me know what you think of them. It looks as though Weta Workshop have worked hard to create most of the props such as a fully functioning four wheel drive Warthog, with a working machine gun, digital displays, airbags and the ability for the Warthog to crab crawl as well as four wheel steer. Pretty awesome, if you check out their site also you can see many weapons they made as well as USNC body armour including Spartan.

The videos are a good in-sight into what could be done with such an amazing project. After Lord of the Rings I think Weta are keen to get thier creative teeth into the whole Halo franchise.

‘True Story’

I met and spoke to Richard Taylor (Director of Weta Workshop) briefly at the Return of The King Film premier in London a few years ago and asked him if I could get a job there?! As I expected our conversation abruptly ended with him looking at me horrified at the thought of this and walked off haha! Owell I would have been wasted there anyway!

Check this out aswell

If you are into all of the history of Halo then check out this site for a virtual tour of a replicated battlefield model with videos and detailed descriptions throughout- Halo3.com it is pretty damn amazing.

Stuart Beattie: the Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriter has reportedly written a non-commissioned script for a new movie Halo: Fall of the Reach. Fall of the Reach is the Halo book written by Eric Nylund.

Beattie’s version of this is supposedly loosely based on the novel. It’s about a six year old kid called John who is kidnapped by the United Nations Space Command (UNSC) Forces and then trained to become a Spartan warrior- Master Chief 117.

Beattie is known to be an avid fan of Halo so hopefully if the script is any good Microsoft or Bungie will snap it up and create what could be a great movie. The script also leans towards this being a trilogy with the second movie being named Halo: Rise of the Flood. Which is based entirely on the halo rings. The third named Halo: Battle for Earth which is based around the third game (Halo 3).

Scripts have been written before, one by Alex Garland author of The Beach. Peter Jackson was going to Produce the movie alongside director Neill Blomkamp. But all fell through because of money disagreements with Universal and the movie has been on hold ever since. I just hope whoever does it does not rush it like all game based movies of recent years. All the ones I can think of have been dire!