Halo Movie Script Review
The first review of the script for the upcoming HALO movie is out, and the outlook looks good. Movies based on computer games seem to be doomed to failure. Tomb Raider and Doom are the only two movies that come to mind that haven’t failed dismally. This review for HALO however, paints a very different picture:
Halo opens with a series of scorched snapshots. Fragments. As memory. This is MASTER CHIEF’S DREAM.
We open on a SPARTAN HELMET, and a REFLECTION in its visor.
In the reflection, we see buildings. The design and architecture of the buildings tell us this is not Earth. The suns are low in the sky, and bathing the landscape blood red.
We snap back to show the full figure of the SPARTAN and folks we are introduced to MASTER CHIEF (MC for short for the rest of this review). Seven foot tall, clad head to toe in MJOLNIR armor, holding a MA5B ASSAULT rifle. We pull back some more to reveal behind MC, another fifty SPARTAN WARRIORS. All the Spartans have their gaze directed at the skies where a vast shadow or cloud is eclipsing the twin suns.
Only this shadow turns out to be literally thousands of Covenants drop ships! (I can’t wait for these WETA toys!) We cut to a battlefield across the wasteland where the Spartans and the Covenant are locked in ferocious combat.
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Dragon’s Notes » Halo Movie Script said,
November 7, 2005 at 10:18 pm
[…] Just stumbled across this brief commentary on the newly released Halo movie script. Could it be we’ll actually get to see what the Master Chief looks like? And am I the only one looking forward to seeing Cortana? We’ll see. Movie is being done by the same guy that did Resident Evil, so there’s at least a snowball’s chance it’ll be good. Guess we’ll have to wait and see… Books, Halo, Movies Video Games […]
stix said,
November 7, 2005 at 10:57 pm
its not my time to go. Halo?!?! I dunno movies from games seem too differrent, all the ppl who play the game may only go to see it cause it says halo in it it wont matter if it is good or not
Capt. Kugel said,
April 14, 2006 at 2:05 pm
HAHAHA its about time we get a movie but from this review it don sound too good, should have based it on the 2nd book and just used that as the script but all we can do is wait and see i guess maybe they wont put a FUBAR on it and mess up the good HALO name
Goshawk said,
April 26, 2006 at 12:36 am
I think that the idea of a halo movie is a good idea for one simple reason:All the movies that were once games that are good need to be made. You never know it will be a good movie unless you make the movie.
Razion said,
May 2, 2006 at 2:07 am
Yeah, tell that to the people that made “Alone in the Dark” and the “Bloodrayne’ movies, and its Peter Jackson, come on. the Lord of the RIngs wern’t that bad and you have to have faith, its not like this movie will be low budget…