įollowing the release of Halo 2, Joseph Staten took a backseat on the Halo game development to recover from the stress the project had put him through. In February 2005, Creative Artists Agency confirmed that Microsoft had completed a million dollar deal to sign Alex Garland to write the Halo screenplay to be offered around to studios. A phone call with Garland to discuss potential high-level ideas for a film saw Garland offer to visit the Bungie offices in Seattle, and work began in earnest on creating a script for a Halo film. Staten and Martin O'Donnell had seen 28 Days Later a few months prior during a trip to Los Angeles to record Halo 2 voice dialogue, and thus were excited to see the film's writer, Alex Garland, on Schlesser's list - having previously speculated that Garland would be perfect for writing a story with the Flood. Instead, Schlessel urged Bungie to finance a script themselves, and provided a shortlist of writers for consideration - intending for Bungie to get their script together and then pitch it to Hollywood to be picked up. Toward the end of Halo 2's development, Parsons introduced Staten to Peter Schlessel (the former president of Columbia Pictures) to discuss a Halo film, though Schlessel was dubious about the idea. As such, Pete Parsons urged Joseph Staten to put the film on the backseat, as any time spent on a film project would be time taken away from developing Halo 2 - a production which would soon become an infamous development hell. Ultimately, these early talks didn't amount to much, as film production for game adaptations at the time was expected to see Bungie have almost nothing to do with the film, with creative control entirely ceded to the filming crew.
At this time, Hollywood began getting in contact with Bungie staff, surprising the development team with just how far their game's success had reached. Discussions for a potential Halo film began in early 2002, shortly after the release of Halo: Combat Evolved and in the early preproduction stages of Halo 2.
0 kommentar(er)
