![]() In 2014, it was revealed that Showtime would air the Halo series, with Microsoft and game studio 343 Industries promising the show would debut in 2015. Why Did the Halo Show Take Almost a Decade to Get Made? Unfortunately, things didn’t exactly go as planned for Master Chief and company, and it would take nine years for the Halo TV show to finally release. ![]() Their confident E3 2013 announcement for a new Halo series, backed by a living legend in the entertainment industry, made it seem like everything was finally getting on track for the beloved video game franchise to get the adaptation it deserved. They also realized it would be more fitting to explore Halo’s vast lore over the course of a TV show rather than try to squeeze it into a two-hour feature. In the following years, Microsoft learned its lesson and decided to try again with a TV show, this time deciding to play by the more traditional Hollywood rules instead of trying to create their own. Despite the involvement of filmmakers such as Lord of the Rings’ Peter Jackson, District 9’s Neill Blomkamp, and Hellboy’s Guillermo Del Toro, Microsoft’s overbearing approach strained the production, and a year later in 2006, the project came to a screeching halt. To keep a long story short, the Halo movie never got made. ![]() In the end, Fox and Universal made a deal to make the movie together, with Fox distributing the movie to foreign box offices and Universal domestic. Not surprisingly, many of the studios balked at Microsoft’s excessive demands. To make a publicity stunt out of it, the screenplays were hand-delivered by couriers dressed in full Spartan armor, and the studios were given 24 hours to decide.Īlong with the script was a contract offering a lop-sided deal where Microsoft would be paid $10 million up front, retain all merchandising rights, receive 15% of ticket sales, and be granted creative control over the movie, which they dictated would receive a $75 million production budget. Microsoft paid 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland $1 million to pen a Halo screenplay, and then copies of the script were sent to every major movie studio (sans Sony, natch). Originally, hot off the success Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Microsoft’s plan was to make a Halo film, and in 2005 they made an overly ambitious play to grab the attention of the big Hollywood studios. What Happened to the Halo Movie?īefore we continue with the show’s production history, it’s important to discuss the fate of the Halo movie. A follow-up report from Variety revealed that the show, then officially titled Halo: The Television Series, was going to have similar high-end production value like HBO’s Game of Thrones, setting expectations sky (space?) high for the show.
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