While I continue to impatiently wait for a Half-Life movie to get made, Microsoft’s kazillion-selling videogame Halo is still rolling toward theaters.
The movie, a joint production between Fox and Universal that will probably cost more than I make in a year, even has a vague (but not surprising) release date already slotted: Halo will hit sometime in the summer of 2007, where Master Chief will have to battle Spidey, a green ogre, Harold Potter, Optimus Prime and probably at least one friggin’ huge shark.
For those unfamiliar with the smash Xbox game, the rather generic story involves soldiers fighting aliens on a giant ancient hula hoop drifting in space. The film’s script, which was penned by 28 Days Later scribe Alex Garland (who got handed a colossal sack of cash for his trouble, thereby answering the question posed by Devin HERE) and gimmickly hand-delivered to prospective studios by dudes dressed as the game’s ostensible star, has now entered the dreaded “rewrites based on studio notes” phase, after which they’ll hunt for a director whose name is not Dr. Uwe Boll.