Halo: The Movie?

Not exactly the most reliable source but over at AintItCoolNews someone calling themselves the WB Informant has sent the Pop Movie Culture site details about a projected Halo film which could be filmed by the Academy Award winning director Ridley Scott!

"I work at Warner-Bros. We recently had a meeting with Ronald Shusett and Daniel Alter over doing the video-game adaptation for this upcoming movie they're producing called 2176. It's an epic space opera that's essentialy a futurisitc retelling of the revolutionary war. WBIE used to be monolith, which developed the ALIEN Vs. PREDATOR games. Shusett co-created the ALIEN franchise and co-wrote the story for AVP."

"Anyway, it turns out one of our senior execs here has been trying to ankle and move into film producing and approached Bungie back at E3 about the HALO movie rights. The word from the company was that unless you got the writer and director of the original ALIEN, everyone can go fish. So with the writer/producer of ALIEN sitting in (someone')s office, I guess he who shall remain nameless thought it was his time to strike."

"Now the tricky part is, apparently Ridley Scott has seen the materials before. And subsequently passed on doing it. But, with HALO 2 sales having been astronomical, Shusett and Alter's camp has been in-touch with Scott Free about it. What's more, upon reviewing the game, Shusett commented that it reminded him of STARSHIP TROOPERS, which apparently Ridley and him had considered collaborating on 20 plus years ago after ALIEN came out. Funny, considering Shusett's TOTAL RECALL director Paul Verhoeven went on to bastardize Heinlein's classic."

"Don't know if Ridley's budged. Or how serious Bungie is about licensing the movie rights. But a HALO movie from the creative team behind ALIEN, and who also toyed with STARSHIP TROOPERS, would seem to be a great fit. What I wonder is if these parties can't come to an accord, why wouldn't Bungie be open to somebody like James Cameron?"

Scott would be an excellent choice having already helmed the Sci-Fi epic Alien and having a respectable roster of films including the intense Black Hawk Down and brutal Gladiator. Scott could really bring home the Halo franchise to silverscreen bliss. But remember, it's just a rumour at this stage, for any further developments in this interesting bit of spin you can be sure to find them here!

In the meantime feel free to discuss this in our forums, who do you think could do justice to the part of the one and only Master Chief?