Halo Movie Trailer

There is no official Halo movie trailer available. However, you will find a lot of videos related to Halo on YouTube, most of them to the release of Halo 3 video game in 2007. What does one have to do with the other?

When Microsoft Game Studios published the Halo science fiction trilogy of first-person shooter video games created by Bungie, the success was enormous. Each sequel was sold in millions of copies worldwide, breaking sales records set by a previous one. The franchise soon expanded to other mediums and now we have Halo novels, soundtracks, machinima productions and other licensed products. It is no wonder that the trilogy is referred to as killer application of Microsoft’s Xbox, setting high standard for all other console games that strive to be better than Halo. It is also no wonder that Microsoft’s logical next move would be to turn it into a movie.

Halo:Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3 comprise the main trilogy of games, which evolve around the Master Chief and Cortana, whose mission is to take control over a theocratic alliance of alien races called Covenant and save the human race. The Master Chief is a human super soldier with cyberneticaly-enhanced powers and Cortana is his artificial intelligence friend. Halo stands for large, ringed structures designed as living spaces.

Several scripts were considered for a movie adaptation. The movie was supposed to be released by 20th Century Fox in 2008 based on the script by D.B.Weiss and Josh Olson. Peter Jackson joined the project as the executive producer, while Neill Blomkamp took the job of directing it. The production has been on and off ever since and we cannot be sure what stage it is in today. The latest information reveals that Stuart Beattie proposed a new script for the movie, which he based on the novel Halo:Fall of Reach.

It is unlikely that everyone will just give up on making a successful game into a movie, but it takes a lot of work regarding plot development, characters, setting, effects and a plethora of other details. There are several websites dedicated to delivering up-to-date news on the progress of the production so just keep your eyes open and listen carefully.