Create Your Own Halo Movie And Win

The guys at the official XBox site have thrown down the guantlet and invited you, the remarkable Halo fan that you are, to create a short movie that shows the unseen advetntures of Master Cheif and the Halo Crew.

Go for it! Enter here!

Xbox 360 Ultimate

The movie may be stalling, but it looks like Microsoft are moving ahead with their Xbox 360 Ultimate! There isn't any more news about whether it'll have HD-DVD or Blu-Ray but in the UK you'll be able to use BT's IPTV service.

Neil Blomkamp Halo Clips

Apparently Neill Blomkamp has made 3 mini movies for Microsoft to be included in a film called "Landfall". Visit fragland for more info.

The FIlm is "Dead"

Not good news for all us Halo fans, but the proposed director has said the "Halo Movie is dead".

With the game doing so well we would have expected them to work their sorry butts off to give us a Halo film.

It appears that the critical factor that bought the movie's demise was "creative differences". Blomkamp had a dark vision for the movie, the style was to have:

"degraded, screwed-up looking footage," an aesthetic he planned on pushing "as far as [I could] until the studios kind of threw a noose around me...I wanted it to feel like the most brutal, real version of science fiction in a war environment that you've seen in awhile."

Whilst the studio had a different vision. Read more at Creativity.

Microsoft / Bungie Secrets To Spill?

Well the information I have as that the NDA between Microsoft and Bungie came to an end yesterday. There's no news or press release about the ending of the relationship as yet. But expect some tittle-tattle soon!

HALO 3 TV Commercial

Wow! Check out the new TV Commercial for the Halo 3 game!

Cool (Unofficial) Trailer

TXBRaptor has made one heck of a cool trailer for the Halo Movie (when it happens). Take a look.

Steve Downes and Tim Dabado Interview

If you want to learn more about the process of making the Halo game then check out this podcast.

Old News

I've got to write something!

So why not the news that D.B. Weiss is going to be re-writing the script that Alex Garland was allegedly paid $1m by Microsoft and who inturn sold it to Universal for $10million - now that's what I call "good business"!