HALO Movie

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Tyro Helmer To Direct Halo

Microsoft announced that relatively new director Neill Blomkamp will helm the much-anticipated feature-film version of its best-selling Halo video game (http://www.scifi.com/sfw/games/sfw7921.html). South Africa native Blomkamp will make his feature-film debut with Halo after a career helming short films and commercials.

Halo is produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh under their WingNut Films banner for Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox. Visual effects, miniatures and creature design and creation will all be handled by Jackson's New Zealand-based Weta Digital and Weta Workshop (the Lord of the Rings films).

Blomkamp directed the acclaimed 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, which depicted a future in which extraterrestrials have become refugees. Blomkamp also directed an episode of James Cameron's Fox TV series Dark Angel.

Halo is currently targeted for a summer 2008 worldwide release and will be shot in Wellington, New Zealand.

Universal Pictures is owned by NBC Universal, which also owns SCIFI.COM.

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=37450

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This could be a very good combination.
Executive Producer Peter Jackson
Master Cheif: Denzel Washington

Source: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/717/717949p1.html
Source: http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20060711182054546

Oscar winner Denzel Washington is rumored to be up for the role of "Master Chief" in Fox/Universal's film version of the Microsoft/Bungie videogame sensation Halo (http://filmforce.ign.com/objects/040/040236.html).

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Source: http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/4403

Only a couple days back we reported a rumor that suggested that Denzel Washington (http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/4403#) could have met with Peter Jackson (http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/4403#) over playing Master Chief in the upcoming Halo adaptation (here (http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/4379)). After running the report we received quite a few emails suggesting another, more probably, character for Washington -- Sgt. Johnson.