Hello there, HALO FANS!!!

The greatest movie maker out there has been chosen to make.... HALO THE MOVIE!!!! That's right, Peter Jackson was all but begged to produce it. Along side his wife, he will be co-executive producer. And who else would he use, but WETA WORKS! And where else would he film, but NEW ZEALAND! It is to be

He is such an avid Halo fan himself, that he played Halo 2 in the evenings while shooting King Kong and added that he "can't wait" to work on the film. Bungie, the Microsoft-owned venture which developed Halo, said at the time it was looking for "someone who's as committed to the Halo universe as Peter Jackson was to Tolkien's Middle-Earth".

It is rumored to be with live people, not animated. Universal film studios, which will oversee the film's production and distribution, hinted that the movie will draw heavily on the game. "The game is a good template," said Donna Langley, Universal's production president. Halo has a complex mix of mythology, characters and worlds and follows the adventures of futuristic super-soldier Master Chief as he fights to save mankind from an alien race. Alex Garland, author of popular novel The Beach, has written the script.

The Halo film is due to be released in mid-2007 by Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox film studios.

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