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- During the development of Halo 3, Bungie would work alongside Peter Jackson, Alex Garland, Neill Blomkamp and Guillermo Del Toro to develop a Halo movie based on Halo 1 and the novel The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund. This is the story of how it was canceled and the pieces that remain in the Paramount+ Halo TV Series
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and you say that this script could not be legit. There are interviews like the one IGN did with the speedrun of halo CE and some of the bungie staff. along with other interviews, they talk about the script that alex had made. They are still in possession of it as well. It is the real deal.
I'm not saying it isn't legit, by any means. In fact I'm incredibly confident it is (at the very least) an early draft of Garland's script. However there is a slight possibility that it isn't, and that the version that the Bungie staff are referencing (in the speedrun I mention later) isn't the same one being reported on. I've read plenty of "legit" scripts in my day that were just thinly veiled fan fiction posted on forums. I can't say with 100% certainity, and I want to make viewers aware of that.
Alright hollywood, here's a free step by step guide for ya.
How to do a halo TV show:
1. Watch Band of Brothers.
2. Use the show as a template.
3. Replace the 101st airborne with an ODST squad.
4. Make Master Chief more of a force of nature, don't make him say a whole lot, Cortana can do most of the talking.
5. Recreate the events of Halo 1, but this time we have an ODST team as well as MC. The ODST team can be the source of the human drama, MC can just be... well he's the MC we all know and love.
6. Keep Cortana the same smart wise cracking blue beauty she is. She's already great, don't change her.
7. Most importantly, take your time, don't rush things, give the characters room to breathe like BOB did. Don't just use the basic structure as a template, look at the way the show used its characters as well.
If that was too complicated for ya hollywood I'll simplify. Do Band of Brothers on the Halo ring.
You deserve a lot more views. These videos are really well put together and the music choices are great!
19:21, dear god that animation...
Wow! How hasn’t this channel blown up? Literally covers like every game/series I enjoy it’s always in depth and well written I am straight up addicted lol
I'll always feel bad for Blomkamp
Say what you will about his recent filmography but he was given Halo, Alien, and RoboCop and all of them was taken away from him and now all he gets to do is a video game movie about racing
I've heard good things about some of his short film horror stuff he's been doing, but have never gotten around to watching them. But for sure, definitely feel bad for the guy. Kind of hoping Gran Turismo is really good so he can get back to making great features.
I love it how Peter played Halo 2 whist making BIG MONKE.
This was so well done. I actually thought some of this stuff was internet hearsay. To have it all laid out in a timeline like this is fantastic. Thank you!
Honestly, when I started out on this I thought it was too. Was blown away at how close it was to being in full production
Blomkamp’s take on a Halo movie sounds unconventional, but I would’ve appreciated a very distinct look and take on the franchise. A gritty war movie like approach could’ve been really intense. Excellent stuff, Evan!
Hey man, I noticed a lot of your videos have lower view counts right now - but I wanted to drop by and say don't be discouraged because you're doing a great job and I can't stop watching your channel. Keep it up.
Hey I appreciate that! I'm still just getting started and I really enjoy doing this so don't worry!
It’s really interesting how the Halo show and cancelled movie(s) have been in development hell for so long. You’d think we would’ve gotten something from any one of these projects back in the day. I remember before the show released I was thinking that if the show is real they should just release what they have. Knowing what we know now it would’ve been better if it stayed in development hell.
Early on I was thinking that they could pull a George Lucas and have something akin to the Special Edition edits and fix various issues with the cgi, rearrange certain scenes to make the show flow better, and make some changes like having Chief wear his armor/helmet and replace that crazy guy with a Jackal like in that book (keeping Squidward’s house on his desk is absolutely mandatory because that’s the funniest thing in the world🤣🗿). This was back when people’s opinions on the show were very mixed and would dramatically change based on the quality of each episode. It wasn’t until Chief got with the Covenant lady and Cortana possessed his body using him as a meat puppet that you started to see near universal scorn. At this point you’d need to do some MAJOR retcons or outright reboot the show to fix it. If someone likes the show I STRONGLY disagree with that, but there’s no way I’ll attack them just because they have a different opinion on fictional media (I feel so bad for the actors that have been harassed by countless regards online. They probably don’t like the direction of the show and are just defending it because they don’t want to be out of a job like what happened with the actors unfortunate enough to be involved with Disney Star Wars).
My ideal Halo show would be a mini series that juggles the plots of CE, the Flood book, and Fireteam Raven. In terms of tone it would mostly be like a gritty war movie with some moments of levity. When Chief is onscreen they’d use over the top action to show that Spartans can do all kinds of stuff that normal humans can’t. Once the Flood show up it would shift to a horror movie. If they want to explore various character’s backstories just have flashbacks to Fall of Reach/Reach the game, Contact Harvest, and a few other books. The separate universe would be used an an opportunity to rearrange certain events to make the show flow better, make connections where none previously existed, have some weapons/vehicles from the other games/books to show the scale of the conflict and make it feel more fleshed out (then if people like it enough have the second season use the separate universe as an opportunity to give us the original version of Halo 2 that Bungie had planned where the Ark was located on Earth and it would be revealed that Forerunners were ancient humans or at least just guided human evolution to make their successors). All they had to do was take these various things that already existed and craft them together into a cohesive vision. Sadly, that didn’t happen.
So you're telling me that a dude that had a hand in creating one of my favorite movies of all time (28 Days Later) wrote a script for one of my favorite game series of all time, and it didn't happen?
I'm pissed
That is exactly what I'm telling you, unfortunately
@@LuckStat great video btw man!
Great video buddy!
this was really great, thank you!
They should go back to the movie plan since the show by paramount is a nightmare
I always like to explain the canceled movie as, that time Hollywood really couldn't read the fans/room, I mean you'd think after the first upload on TH-cam of the test footage and gaging everyone's responses they'd green light it, but y'know that's just the choice that would make sense so of course they didn't do that
I found out about 12:46 recently and it blew my mind
makes so much sense
halo with a gravity gun basically
4:22 - Nylund didn't write "The Flood." I can understand the confusion since he did write the three other early novels.
Good catch, my mistake. I think there might be a shot of the Flood cover hiding in here with the actual author’s name on display
i learned more from this video than i have from any other halo iceberg video
And this video isn’t 3 hours long!
I'm hopeful that the second season will take notes from last of us and do better but not holding out much
Some of the producers have room temperature IQs….
Detailed research🎉
Neil did Halo Landfall? Thats what we could've got!!!??? F@CKING MICROSOFT!!! Talk about a missed opportunity. 🤨
Bungie and fans loved it; corporations didn’t - do we not see the problem here?
That was interesting. Great video.
I’m personally really glad that Halo Chronicles never got made because it would’ve completely messed up the lore and simply does not fit the universe (same goes for Ensemble’s MMO). If this happened NOBODY would have any right to complain about 343’s various retcons and missteps because Halo’s identity would’ve already been lost under Bungie. Say what you will about 343 (and I agree wholeheartedly there’s a lot to say), but I think we can all agree that their version of the Prometheans is so much better than whatever drug fueled fever dream Peter Jackson and Bungie had planned. I also really like how they kept the expanded universe going and aren’t openly hostile to people coming in and writing books that better flesh out the world (unfortunately the books range in quality considerably).
I personally think that if Halo Chronicles was it’s own thing completely divorced from Halo, aside from the mandatory references and shared concepts like what Halo did with Marathon than it would’ve been perfectly fine. In terms of gameplay it sounds super crazy and fun. Lore wise it’s a dumpster fire.
Another good thing about Halo Chronicles being cancelled is it gave us ODST and District 9 (haven’t seen that but I’ve heard it’s good and I’m glad that others have something to enjoy). ODST does a truly phenomenal job with its atmosphere and presentation to make you feel like a normal human. Unfortunately they didn’t do nearly enough to make you play like a normal human. Instead you’re basically diet Master Chief and can do most of the same stuff he can but worse. It really should’ve played like a tactical shooter with an emphasis on stealth (silenced weapons aren’t actually quiet and will alert enemies). They didn’t really do anything to make the lesser Covenant (Drones, Jackals, and Grunts) feel like your equals/close lessers. We also should’ve been fighting Elites for the first half/two thirds of the game with Brutes showing up at night and towards the end. It makes zero sense that the Elites would all just magically disappear and get replaced with Brutes, especially because the first mission takes place right after Regret’s ship jumps. It would’ve added more enemy variety to the game and we could’ve experienced the Great Schism from the perspective of a normal human. They wouldn’t really have to change the story much and your team would’ve instead used the ensuing chaos as an opportunity to collect the Engineer and escape the city. My ideal Halo would be a mostly faithful remake of ODST that addresses these various issues and adds in a few weapons/vehicles from the other games where appropriate. Don’t get me wrong ODST is one of my favorite Halos right next to 2. It’s just a letdown when you consider what could’ve been, in fact should’ve been since they sold this glorified level pack for $60 back in the day.
I know I'm in the minority here but I don't need to see a halo movie. The premise of the game is cinematic enough and the recent TV show enforced this feeling. As soon as John Generican pulled his helmet off in that I was like "Yeah, bollocks to this!"
this was an amazing video. I always new of Peter Jackson's involvement, and that District 9 and Landfall were what became of it...but I had no knowledge that Guillermo del Toro was involved. I also really loved that no slanderous remarks were made towards the TV Show, but instead constructive, and respective statements that give the people behind and in front of the cameras the respect they deserve.
I watched the 1st season with my Father after playing the entire franchise with him for years, and we really enjoyed it BECAUSE it was something different we hadn't seen before with the Halo IP.
I'm super excited to see what the 2nd season has in store now that it's being written by those who Have played the games (That is one thing about season 1 I was pretty concerned about) and I'm really happy to see where Halo is headed overall.
After Season 5 just dropped and people are returning to Infinite in droves, praising what it has become, I am hopeful once again 343i will finally hit the stride they need. Especially now that they're being lead by the man who fixed MCC, the game we all thought would never be fixed.
This was nearly identical to my experience. I'd basically back-to-backed every piece of first contact Halo media in the lead up to writing that section and watching the show. While I don't think every risk worked, or every character was well casted, I'm not sure why we would want the exact same story told over and over again.
Literally everything is better than the paramount crap we ended up getting
Have u even watched the tv show it was terrible it disrespected the source material on every level I wish the Neil blomcamp movie got made atleast it respected halo unlike that terrible show on paramount plus it was nothing more but a cash grab the show writers never even played the games
I did watch the TV show and quite a bit of the behind-the-scenes features on P+. I think to me personally it's kind of a miracle it even released, being basically the result of multiple production hells for Halo live-action, about 15 different creative visions, and a loooot of studio/Microsoft interference. I'm fairly uncritical towards TV in general and having read the Fall of Reach novel around the same time, even with its differences, it was nice to see some scenes recreated there as well. Its production was a revolving door, it's obvious they wanted to make a Halo show that was similar to The Expanse, Battlestar and even Discovery and while I don't think they succeeded, I also don't think it's the worst thing on TV. Thanks for watching!
@@LuckStat I think for how long we waited for it was a massive disappointment it bearly followed any of the source material given iv read all the books it hardly follows the books or games in the beginning if u read the articles about the show writers they never played the games or read the books I think the best adaption we have was forward on to dawn and the live action trailers back in the day I think the halo show was really bad i wish they would of actually followed the fall of reach book it would of been such a awesome show if they did
@@garylococo2401 I can agree with that. I think there's value in trying something new, but it's obvious that it alienenated a lot of the core fanbase in doing so and took it in directions it probably shouldn't have. Especially since there wasn't really a "definitive live action adaptation" before. Curious to see how/if they respond to criticism going forward or if another adaptation will come around down the road.
The halo tv series has utterly nothing of value… it is a heartless cash-grab entirely and I’m very surprised at that take
It’s 50/50 me being easy to please with TV and experiencing it far enough away from the initial release reaction. I enjoyed my time with it, but I probably wouldn’t recommend someone who didn’t like it to give it another go
@@LuckStat yeah the effects and props were pretty cool and I enjoyed the sets and casting… it’s just not halo outside of that varnish tho
lol WHAT? "enjoyable"... "less than definitive..."??? The Halo series is ABYSMAL. On every level. As an "adaptation". As a drama. As sci-fi. It gets a failing grade in every aspect. It is objectively BAD.
ok
I don't think Del Toro would have done this franchise justice. But I would still love to see what he came up with. Everything he touches oozes passion and oddity.
Would've it have been Halo? Nah, but it would've at least been pretty good
The show was god aweful