In 2022, fans of “halo” finally obtained what they were looking forward to for years when Paramount + gave life to the story of Master Chief – and they did not like the results. The biggest problem occurred when Pablo Schreiber as legendary Spartan 117 did the unthinkable and withdrew his helmet for most of the series, apparently trying what “the Mandaloror” had moved away after showing the cup of Pedro Pascal on the strange occasion. Even the star of the show was not satisfied with some of the creative choices that were made, which understood the Master Chief by doing so in the first season of the show with a controversial sex scene.
Unfortunately, this and other decisions did not properly reach the target, and the show was canned after two seasons. But although some fans complained about the last short -term project, he should have been considered as an achievement given the many attempts to give life to the “halo” franchise. The most notable effort began in 2005 when the legend of the “Lord of the Rings”, Peter Jackson, which was freshly out of “King Kong”, went on board as a director before moving gears as an executive producer and Guillermo del Toro to take the chair instead.
Unfortunately, this team quickly collapsed, and instead, Jackson called on the talents of the director emerging Neill Blomkamp to take the job. The pieces were certainly all in place, but it was not long before the studio interference, the agreements and the deadlines become so much a problem that Jackson bailed out and took his protégé who loves science fiction with him.
Master Chief was not up to financial problems
For a year, Jackson and Blomkamp played in the “halo” universe construction armor, weapons and a fully functional pharmacy vehicle for the project via Weta Workshop. In the eyes of the studios that support the company, it was not enough. To even bring the film from theaters closer, 20th Century Fox and Universal had joined forces for Microsoft’s film option in what was then the biggest purchase in the history of film creation, with 5 million dollars from each party. Universal would manage domestic distribution with the fox of manipulation abroad. The two would also spit out part of the production budget which was reported to be somewhere on the other side of $ 100 million. A year later, however, the two studios were dissatisfied with the results they saw.
In 2006, no final script received the approval seal and yet the two studios were responsible for paying 10% of the film’s 100 million budget in Microsoft and another portion in Jackson as well. It was after another $ 5 million for the option of the script option. Hermorract Money, an ultimatum was given to Jackson to renegotiate the original terms of the agreement concluded, or let the project collapse all together. The director of the “Lord of the Rings” has chosen not to pass or modify the initial agreement and, consequently, “Halo” was ended. From there, Blomkamp and Jackson followed their own path, letting Master Chief finish the fight, but Microsoft considered good, and the producer and director formerly venturing into a brand new district.
Neil Blomkamp blames Microsoft, not Peter Jackson for the Halo film Faouring
Joining the many over-type science fiction films that have never seen the light, “Halo” was the project that could have broken the curse of video game adaptation long before “The Last of Us” and “Sonic the Hedgehog”. The silver lining is that after the separation of the studios, Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp gave us an additional alternative. Freed from his short film that was running, “Alive in Joburg”, Blomkamp broke out on the stage with “District 9”, showing us the vision that the fans in a walk winning fans were desperate for a series of this original idea that we did not have either. With hindsight, however, Blomkamp argued that it was the studio and the all-powerful Microsoft which ended at the time of Master Chief in the cinema.
Blomkamp is quoted in Jamie Russell’s book “Generation X Box: how video games have invaded Hollywood,” saying that “when you have a business that can and you start to add everything that is in fact, mixed with the fact that you are not paying value, which is not worth, suddenly the return to investment begins for you to make two studios. This, Master Chief could finally happen in the way we hoped for one day. Video game characters can often get a second life further. Maybe after a disappointing film effort and a failed program, Master Chief could get his third.
