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Posted by Andrei on Thu May 5th at 8:10pm 2005

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And perhaps Steven Soderbergh should be the director.


Meh. Spielberg would be much better. He has a special touch for the weird.
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Posted by Dark Tree on Fri May 6th at 10:54am 2005

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Posted by satchmo on Fri May 6th at 6:32pm 2005

Unfortunately, I think we're fooling ourselves that these big-name directors are going get themselves involved with the movie based on a video game (even though it's the greatest game ever made).

It's more likely going to get a first-time director who has only made music videos before.

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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 6th at 6:40pm 2005

Well the guy who is directing the doom movie has quite a few movies under his belt, including US Marshalls, Dante's Peak, Species, and Speed:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005647/
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Posted by rival on Fri May 6th at 6:45pm 2005

they should wait for HL3 to come out before they make a movie then they could make loads of money with a trilogy

but seriously - i think they might have to adapt the way the story flows for the movie. how would like watching someone else, in third person, running through the whole of HL2?? but i guess some of you would probably love it...

there is a chance for a big time director: i swear i saw a Halo movie scheduled for 2007 directed by Ridley Scott but sadly it isnt there anymore.





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 6th at 7:09pm 2005

Mark Laidlaw should just write a screenplay... I don't care if it's HL related or not. He's already proven he can tell a great story. I'd like to see what he could do with the film medium.
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Posted by Crono on Fri May 6th at 7:29pm 2005

As much as I like Paul Anderson, I don't want him even remotely involved with an HL movie ... ever.

Those "Music Video Directors" usually turn out to be excellent film makers: David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Francis Lawrence, etc.

I would actually like to see Francis Lawrence get a hold of the HL film. I wouldn't really care who writes the script. It'd be cool if they worked with Mark Laidlaw to make a coherent movie story line, but the actual script its self shouldn't be written by him, and as long as it's not written by David Koepp: I'll be fine. I think Peter David would be a good choice. He rocks. Jim Uhls seems pretty good at adaptations as well.

Spielberg = bloated movie that will be over glossed and will be identified through the director.

Soderbergh = predictable obvious movie even if there's an enormous amount of confusion. It'll just end up looking pretty.

Anderson (PW) = Cheesy and inaccurate, because he refuses to let other people write the scripts to things he "adapts" [addsig]



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Posted by satchmo on Fri May 6th at 7:55pm 2005

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Mark Laidlaw should just write a screenplay

In all likelihood, he had already. But Hollywood hasn't accepted his script yet. It's so difficult to convince a studio to take on your project, yet hundreds of stupid s**tty movies get made every year.

It's kinda like writing a book...

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Posted by Crono on Fri May 6th at 9:01pm 2005

Are you kidding? More now then ever studios are doing exactly the opposite of that.

I mean, if Warner Brothers is keeping their producer's hands out of a Batman movie: anything is possible.

For some reason, WB seems to be the ones who're finally learning to let go and let people be creative. I think other studios have been doing things like that for a long time.

And, there are always independent distributors who will simply fund your project and let you do what you want as long as you make their money back (Miramax/Dimension)

Of course there are bad movies every year. But there are good ones too. To simply say, in general, that every studio in Hollywood rejects anything good is absurd and ignorant. [addsig]




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