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Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and producer on the upcoming Halo movie, has been speaking to Ain’t It Cool News about Halo – the good news is that things appear to be progressing well.
Speaking about the Halo film script, Jackson said: “It’s getting much better along now and there are certainly a lot of things in it now that are working well. There are things that aren’t working well in it yet, but Fran, Philippa and I are not writing the script, but, in a sense, one of the things we’re contributing with our involvement in the project is being the police, the script cops! So, nothing is going to end up on the screen that doesn’t get our stamp of approval.“
Jackson’s involvement no doubt instils an air of confidence in the film’s success than may have been lacking otherwise, especially given that the director on board is a rookie when it comes to creating a blockbuster production such as the Halo movie. That said, Jackson has expressed his faith in new boy Neill Blomkamp.
“Believe me, he’s doing something that is very, very different from what people are imagining, from what people have seen before. Some of the visuals… He’s been working with Weta pretty much full time for, I guess it’d be about two months now, turning out lots and lots of art every day. And maquettes, production design, colour art has been coming out of there. I’ve got folders and folders of it at home here. It’s fantastic stuff. I mean, I look through it and I get excited about the film,” enthused Jackson.
Jackson also cast aside the stigma associated with videogame to film adaptations.
“Good films just need good characters, good storyline and a great director to bring it to life and make a film that you’ve never seen before. That’s what it needs. It doesn’t matter a damn whether it’s based on a game, a book or a piece of chewing gum, you know? That’s irrelevant. It’s what actually ends up on the screen that’s important,” he said.
Speaking more specifically about what to expect from the Halo movie, Jackson name-dropped a few familiar faces. “We know that there’s going to be the Covenant, we know that there’s going to be Warthogs, Ghosts and Scorpions, and there’s going to be the Pillar of Autumn.” said Jackson.
There’s still a long wait ahead until Halo reaches cinemas – it’s scheduled for the summer of 2008. You can check out the full interview with Peter Jackson over on Ain’t It Cool News.
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