Film site “One View With A Room” has a nice series on best films never made. _Among them was the Halo movie which would have been co-produced by Peter Jackson, of Lord of the Rings/Hobbit fame, and directed by_Neill Blomkmap best known for District 9. _The script was written by Alex Garland most recently known for the highly successful Dredd 3D film. _ What ultimately killed the project was Microsoft’s inexperience in the movie business coupled with a greedy and controlling movie studios Fox and Universal. _Here is an excerpt: In amongst the dusty annals of the best films never made, one blockbuster lies atop the pile. Widely known and anticipated for the last 8 years, the ultimate videogame film/adaptation, and the one film that could never make the final jump to our cinema screens: Halo. So what if one of the biggest videogame franchise_had_made it to the big screen? What if Alex Garland’s (Dredd/Sunshine scribe) script had been accepted by all? What if money was no object? What if...

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